Guest Lecture

Date: 11 May 2006 at 4pm
Topic: 'Reconceptualising Gender and Ageing: have we forgotten older men?'
Speaker: Professor Sara Arber, University of Surrey
Location: Printing House, TCD (A reception will follow in the GMB - all welcome. Light
refreshments will be served)
Description: This lecture is organized by the TCD Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies in association with the Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre.
Contact: For queries please contact wscentre@tcd.ie or call (01) 6082225

Professor Arber is Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Ageing and Gender (CRAG) at University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. At Surrey, she has been Head of the School of Human Sciences (2001-04) and Head of the Department of Sociology (1996-2002). She was President of the British Sociological Association (1999-2001). Sara has written over 200 journal articles on gender and ageing, and on inequalities in health. She is currently pioneering multi-disciplinary research on the sociology of sleep. Her books include Gender and Ageing: Changing Roles and Relationships (with Kate Davidson and Jay Ginn, 2003), The Myth of Generational Conflict: Family and State in Ageing Societies (with Claudine Attias-Donfut, Routledge, 2000), and Connecting Gender and Ageing (with Jay Ginn, 1995), which won the Age Concern prize for best book on Ageing in 1996.