Researching Later Life and Ageing

This collection on researching later life and ageing critically reflects upon the qualitative methods used in gaining knowledge of under-researched groups of older people and sets out future research agendas.

CHRISTINE BIGBY Director of Postgraduate Programmes in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia LAURA HURD CLARKE Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada PAUL HIGGS Professor of the Sociology of Ageing at UCL, UK KAREN LOWTON Senior Lecture in Ageing and Health at King's College London, UK SUE MALTA PhD candidate in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia MARY MACMASTER PhD Candidate at the Department of Fine Arts and Media Research at Norwich University College of the Arts, UK BARBARA L. MARSHALL Professor of Sociology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada WENDY MARTIN Lecturer in Health Studies at the School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, UK JANE SEYMOUR Sue Ryder Care Professor of Palliative and End-of-Life Studies, University of Nottingham, UK CHRISTINA VICTOR Professor of Gerontology and Public Health in the School of Health Sciences and Director of the Health Ageing programme at the Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies (BIAS) at Brunel University, UK MARIA ZUBAIR Research Associate at the School of Community Based Medicine at The University of Manchester, UK