Our final speaker of the morning, Christoph Heuser Ageing Southampton talking about reconciling opposing theories in mixed methods studies.

A chance to reflect during the leadership workshop with Wanok and Emilie McSwiggan before lunch!

A big thank you to Emilie McSwiggan and Wanok from ACRC for facilitating a leadership workshop for us. We are defining our values - it’s difficult to narrow them down to two core values!

Thank you to Martin, Anthony and Judith for joining us for the journal q&a over lunch! Martin Hyde Journal of Global Ageing Judith Phillips

Kicking off our second session, we have Lucia Crowther presenting 'Feeling at 'home' in the hospice: considering disparate experiences of homeliness in end-of-life spaces'

Our next presenter is Sarah Jasim, presenting 'Understanding the influence of diverse cultural backgrounds and ethnicity as barriers to access and uptake of social care services on older adults'

Our third speaker of this session is Graham Haynes and he's talking to us about 'Exploring ageing well in a rural community - a good place for older people to age well?'

Next up, Ezinma Mbeledogu, who is presenting 'Deep roots: the inextricable mesh of dress and identity and its persistence into later life: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study'

Our next presenter is Wendy Twist, talking to us all about 'Ageing better together: Intergenerational collaborative housing and healthy ageing'

Now, Daniel Clark is talking to us about 'Who wants to live forever? Anti-ageing and the cult of eternal life'

Our next presenter is Xuechun Ding, and she is presenting her work titled 'Four-day work week and occupational stress: A mixed-method study of older workers'

Our last presenter, Mengxing , MSW, MA, AFHEA (she/her) is presenting to us on 'Heterogeneous loneliness trajectories in the COVID-19 pandemic: A latent class analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing'

Super excited to welcome our first Service Dog attendee Barfi to Newcastle this year. 💙 We're so glad you enjoyed and felt comfortable at our event, thats the best feedback we could hope for!! Hope to see you throughout the week at BSG and do come back to ERA next year!!

Congratulations to our 4 new committee members! Can't wait to work with you all over the coming year(s)! Incoming chair Amy Prescott Treasurer Ezinma Mbeledogu Publications Mengxing , MSW, MA, AFHEA (she/her) Volunteer Wendy Twist

Then & now 😲 Outing myself a little with the pre-trans nonbinary photo but would you believe that baby PhD used to make people turn around in seminars (<10 people) to be able to speak. Here I am today BSG Emerging Researchers in Ageing chair & announcing Stirling Prize to ~400 people BSG2024 #BSG2024 🥹

We heard from Graham on Tuesday at the ERA pre-conference. But this afternoon Bangor University PhD candidate Graham Haynes shares his research at the main BSG2024 conference into ageing well in rural communities! #BSG2024

Thinking about joining the British Society of Gerontology, perhaps after attending #BSG2024? Check out out new film youtu.be/poJNVta95P8?si… via YouTube

We're looking for someone to join our #SteeringCommittee as #CoChair - interested? Drop us a DM to find out more 📩 #CreativeAgeing British Gerontology BSG Emerging Researchers in Ageing BSG2024 CADA England Flourishing Lives Reimagine Ageing British Society for Research on Ageing Centre for Ageing Population Studies (CAPS) The Ageing Lab Luminate Scotland Gwanwyn

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