The IncludeAge Project - Inclusion of diverse older people in community and public places and virtual spaces

IncludeAge Standard Newsletter:
Issue 6 - September 2024

Welcome to our monthly IncludeAge Newsletter!

News Updates & Celebrations

Congratulations to Richard

Congratulations to Richard, who has been offered a book contract with Policy Press (imprint of Bristol University Press). The book will be called "Researching the Autobiographical: An Interdisciplinary Guide" and will offer a practical a guide to researching ways in which people represent and express themselves using different approaches. 

Well Done to Susan and Darren

Well done to Susan and Darren, who have been working as consultants for Magenta to create a new Ofcom report called "Paving the way for inclusive research’. You can read the report here: Paving the Way for More Inclusive Research

Congratulations Mei

Mei has had a conference abstract accepted for the Gerontological Society of America conference in Seattle this September. The presentation will be about understanding inclusive physical places and virtual spaces for older marginalized communities. 

Data Generation Update

We have now completed more than 80 Life Story Interviews.

We have sent out our first 16 tablets for the Place Study with more being set up every week. 

We are in the final stages of getting ethical approval for our next phase. We are preparing to begin recruitment of people to take part in our Organisational Interviews, and our Social Network Mapping.

We are Looking for More Participants! 

We are still looking for more people to take part in our project. If you, or someone you know is 40 or over, lives in Scotland, England or Wales, has a learning disability or is LGBT+ and interested in taking part in the study, do get in touch with us by replying to this email, or using our Contact Form.

Outreach

Susan and Darren Presented at a Conference in Chicago

Darren and Susan attended the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) Conference in Chicago this month and presented on the IncludeAge project. Susan spoke about inclusion of people with learning disabilities in a mainstream project, and Darren spoke about inclusion in digital spaces and places. Both presentations were well received and people were interested in what we are doing with our project. 

New Resources

Launching the IncludeAge YouTube Channel!

We now have our very own IncludeAge YouTube channel! You can view our introduction video, along with infobytes that will be regularly posted here: IncludeAge YouTube

Our Project Outputs

We are sharing project outputs over the course of the project on our Project Outputs page. New resources will be shared in our newsletter each month. 

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