Cross University Research Event:

Childhood and Ageing 

Tuesday 16 November 2021

4pm-6pm

STEM Event Space 3.1, Square 3, University of Essex, Colchester Campus

The aim of the CURE series is to bring researchers from across our three faculties together around a broad topic every month.

The next CURE event in this year’s series will showcase some of the research and capacity building projects conducted by academics in the University in the area of Childhood and Ageing.

In the CURE event, academics from all Faculties will cover research undertaken in children and youth, and research on ageing. Current research on childhood covers a wide area of developmental processes such as how infants and children learn and develop (Baby Lab), the development of children’s social and emotional wellbeing in society, group processes in children’s relationships, determinants of health and height of children and adults in the UK, and psychosocial childhood and parenting. Academics from Arts and Humanities use Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and physical theatre techniques to facilitate conversations about consent and rape culture in young people, and documentary filmmaking in young people. Law research focuses on family matters affecting children such as domestic adoption and private law disputes including the issue of parental alienation, and on youth crime and justice.

There is a broad remit of healthy ageing research at the University. Research ranges from identifying the molecular basis of cellular ageing, the effects of nutrition on biome physiology and subsequent effects on human healthy ageing, to looking at menopause at workplace and the need and development of digital interventions in women’s health. Work on computational neuroscience focuses on understanding mechanisms of the brain pertaining to brain diseases, ageing and mental states and other researchers employ Bayesian methodology in mortality forecasting in the presence of overdispension. Academics from Social Sciences focus, amongst other areas, on Tempo in Life, and ageing society and third age entrepreneurship.

The speakers will make 3 minute presentations on their research connected with the topic of Childhood and Ageing followed by networking.

Faculty of Science of Health

• Dr Claire Delle Luche, Department of Language and Linguistics
• Dr Junhua Li, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
• Dr Jackie Wong Siaw Tze, Department of Mathematical Sciences
• Dr Camille Cronin, School of Health and Social Care

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

• Dr Nic Blower, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
• Dr Nora Williams, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies (LiFTS)
• Dr Samantha Davey, School of Law
• Professor David O’Mahony, School of Law

Faculty of Social Sciences

• Dr Norman Gabriel, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
• Dr Jun Li, EBS - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship (SOE)
• Dr Boroka Bo, Department of Sociology
• Dr Shaul Bar Haim, Department of Sociology
• Professor Tim Hatton, Department of Economics

Do join us in person or via zoom and contribute to this initiative aimed at enabling researchers to come together to share ideas and develop new research collaborations.

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