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Keynote speaker - Professor Paul Higgs

Professor Paul Higgs

Professor Paul Higgs is Professor of the Sociology of Ageing in the School of Life and Medical Sciences at University College London where he has made a significant impact in designing and implementing both undergraduate and postgraduate programs and has published widely in both social gerontology and medical sociology.  His research interests in ageing include the Third Age; embodiment; identity; generations, cohorts and ageing; consumption and later life; and influences of quality of life in early old age and retirement.  Longitudinal research contributions include carers of people with dementia and as a collaborator in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. He has enhanced the discipline internationally via his involvement in a number of committees, editorial roles, as a regular reviewer for key journals in ageing, and as a popular international speaker.  He is currently co-authoring a book on the embodiment of ageing due to be published in 2010.

Recent book and journal publications include;

  • Higgs,P. Jones,I.R. (2009), Medical Sociology and Old Age: Towards a sociology of health in later life, Critical Studies in Health and Society series. Series edited by Williams,S.J., Bendelow,G.. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-39860-2.
  • Higgs,P., Leontowitsch,M., Stevenson,F., Jones,I.R. (2009). Not just old and sick - the 'will to health' in later life. Ageing & Society 29, . ISSN: 0144-686X.
  • Hyde,M., Higgs,P.Newman,S. (2009). The health profile of ageing populations. Chapter 1 in Newman,S., Steed,E., Mulligan,K. (ed.) Chronic Physical Illness: Self-Management and Behavioural Interventions. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 1st edition, 3-27. ISBN: 10:0-335-21786-9.
  • Higgs,P., Hyde.,M., Gilleard,C.J., Victor,C.R., Wiggins,R.D., Jones,I.R. (2009). From passive to active consumers? Later life consumption in the UK from 1968-2005. The Sociological Review 57(1), 102-124.

Professor Higgs’ visit is funded by the ARC/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well.

 

  
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