On behalf of the UK Ageing Research Funders' Forum (UKARFF), we've created a short survey to better understand researchers' training needs. If you can spare a few minutes, you can complete it here: tinyurl.com/4ptbhtya ⏰deadline 20th May!

Read all about our co-investigators Kelly Bowden Davies and Sandra Ortega-Martorell discussing their career journeys, current research and roles within the Network ➡️bit.ly/4ad9grL

🚨ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENSION 🚨 We've had a number of emails from people this last week, asking if they could still submit to BSRA 2024. We want this to be our biggest meeting yet, so happy to accomodate! Are you bringing some exciting science? Tell us below! #BSRA2024

𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗖𝗥𝘀 - we funded a number of Early Career Researchers to attend the International Sarcopenia Translational Research Conference (ISTRC) last year – read more about them and their summaries of the event ➡️ bit.ly/4bEChxt

BLAST will be running 2 Gather Town seminars (interactive virtual spaces) on the Sexual Dimorphism of Ageing. Hopefully if you can't make one date, you can make the other. The first seminar is coming up on 3rd June - see here for details and registration ukanet.org.uk/blast/2024/05/…

Today Jenny Wales has a poster on the factors which influence physical activity in older adult couples, early findings from ActivDyad. #PO36 Jenny used COM-B to inform deductive qualitative analysis & pinpoint behavioural change targets. Work funded by ART of Healthy Ageing Network

We've brought to life our ECR workshop on building confidence in interdisciplinary collaboration😊 Can you spot yourself?! 🙋‍♀️🙋 Read more here 👉bit.ly/3yH98n8 Thanks again to The Collective for your great facilitation!

⏬We're recruiting!⏬ ***Research Associate/Assistant in Medical Statistics*** Join our lovely interdisciplinary team and help improve lives through world-class research in ageing, sarcopenia and multiple long-term conditions (closing date 23 June) jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-…

Well done to Jenny Wales who was awarded Best Poster at today’s Newcastle University Faculty of Medical Sciences NUTCRI Live event! Jenny was presenting work from the ART of Healthy Ageing Network funded ActivDyad study, showing qualitative findings of the influences in physical activity in older dyads. So proud!!

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is now 28th June.

Check out our latest newsletter for updates on our events and activities 👇 Many thanks for your continued engagement and valuable contributions to the Network 🙂 research.ncl.ac.uk/artofhealthyag…

Excited for #AAIC24! Here at the Technology and Dementia PIA day with posters on (1) the feasibility/acceptability of a remote monitoring toolkit to measure dyadic walking activities (funded ART of Healthy Ageing Network) & (2) digital turning outcomes to differentiate dementia subtypes!

Excited for Jenny Wales to present on her work looking at dyadic interactions in physical activity and the social and environmental influences that surround it! Her first #AAIC24 and she’s going to give an amazing talk! Be sure to check it out at 16.15 in room 204!

Join us for the free UKAN/UKRI Partnering Meeting on 03/09 in Birmingham - a satellite meeting that precedes the British Society for Research on Ageing event. Hear from the 11 interdisciplinary ageing research networks that make up UKAN - networking, posters and ECR bursary available shorturl.at/Y3C3w

We are delighted to welcome Professor Sir Chris Whitty to deliver the keynote lecture on 'Health in an Ageing Society' at the Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) Cross NIHR-Collaboration (CNC) Launch on 27 November 2024. More about the event🔗newcastlebrc.nihr.ac.uk/event-multiple… Department of Health and Social Care