Extending Working Lives

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Findings

Articles and papers providing some insight into our initial findings from the project can be found on the following pages, together with some examples of other engagement activity by members of the project team.

Publications

2017

Exploring retirement transitions

ILC-UK and the uncertain futures research consortium
July 2017

Gender, ageing and extended working life

A.Ni Leime, D. Street, S. Vickerstaff, C. Krekula and W. Loretto
May 2017

Longitudinal associations of experiences of adversity and socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood with labour force participation and exit in later adulthood

A.E. Fahy, S.A. Stansfeld, M. Smuk, D. Lain, M. van der Horst, S. Vickerstaff and C. Clark
February 2017

The Oxford handbook of skills and training skills and training for the older population: training the new work generation

W. Loretto, C. Phillipson, S.A. Vickerstaff
February 2017

Impact of childhood and adulthood psychological health on labour force participation and exit in later life

C. Clark, M. Smuk, D. Lain, S. Stansfeld, E. Carr, J. Head, S. A. Vickerstaff.
October 2016

Pathways of paid work, care provision, and volunteering in later careers: Activity substitution or extension?

M. van der Horst, S. A. Vickerstaff, D. Lain, C. Clark, B. Baumberg Geiger
July 2016

Achieving fuller working lives: labour market and policy issues in the United Kingdom

C. Phillipson, S. A. Vickerstaff, D. Lain
June 2015

Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology retirement: Evolution, revolution, retrenchment

S. A. Vickerstaff
February 2015

National report chapter in understanding employment participation of older workers

D. Lain, S.A. Vickerstaff
February 2015

Domestic and household factors chapter in understanding employment participation of older workers

S.A. Vickerstaff
February 2015

Financial factors chapter in understanding employment participation of older workers

D. Lain

Conferences

August 2017

Older people in employment event – Edinburgh

Professor Wendy Loretto hosted an event at the University of Edinburgh Business School to discuss some of the issues affecting older people in employment. Professor Sarah Vickerstaff, Dr Laura Airey and Dr David Lain presented some of the findings from the Extending Working Lives project and discussed some possible policy options with representatives from the Scottish government.
2017

IAGG conference San Francisco

Sarah Vickerstaff, Chris Phillipson, David Lain and Mariska van der Horst attended the Gerontological Society of America annual conference in San Francisco in July and presented findings from the project.
2017

“Do not go gentle” – Gerontology and a good old age

British Society of Gerontology Conference 2017
Sarah Vickerstaff, Chris Phillipson and David Lain from the Uncertain Futures project all presented at this year’s BSG event in Swansea.
April 2017

Overcoming inequalities event at Church House, Westminster

The Overcoming Inequalities: Addressing barriers to extending working lives event was held on 5th April and was attended by a host of leading experts from charities, industry, government, public bodies, universities and voluntary organisations.
Further information and a report of the day’s proceedings can be found here
March 2017

Fuller working lives policy and findings event

Sarah and David presented some of the initial findings from the project at an ESRC event in London
February 2017

Work, health and ageing roundtable with Centre for Ageing Better

Sarah Vickerstaff was invited to take part in this roundtable event to inform the consultation on the Work and Health green paper.
November 2016

Presentation at European public health conference

Dr Charlotte Clark presented a paper from the Uncertain Futures project entitled: The impact of childhood psychological health on labour force participation in later life.
September 2016

Chair of GSA 2016 symposium

Professor Chris Phillipson acted as Chair for the symposium entitled “The Erosion of Retirement:The case of the United Kingdom.”
September 2016

Presentation to GSA

Professor Chris Phillipson presented on the subject of: “Retirement Lost or Saved. Redefining a 20th Century Institution”.
September 2016

Presentation to GSA

Professor Sarah Vickerstaff presented on the subject of “Extending Women’s Working Lives: Risks and Opportunities.

Collaborations and partnerships

2017

Overcoming inequalities: addressing barriers to extending working lives
-renEWL project headed by UCL and ILC-UK

The Overcoming inequalities: Addressing barriers to extending working lives event was held on 5th April in collaboration with Professor Jenny Head and the renEWL project team from UCL. The event was hosted by ILC-UK. Further information can be found in our Conferences section.
2015

European-wide initiative “More years – better lives”
– European Commission

Professor Sarah Vickerstaff presented a paper on “The impact of the Domestic Domain on Later Life Work Participation” at the Understanding Employment Participation of Older Workers : Defining Research Needs for Evidence-based Policy event in Berlin. The event is the final conference in a Europe-wide initiative entitled “More Years, Better Lives”. The initiative seeks to enhance coordination and collaboration between European and national research programmes related to demographic change. Professor Sarah Vickerstaff and Dr David Lain each provided chapters in the final report from the above-mentioned research project as well as providing a national report for the UK.

Media

February 2017

Interview with BBC Radio Scotland

Professor Wendy Loretto appeared on BBC Radio Scotland to discuss working in later life in response to a call from UK government business champion, Andy Briggs, to create one million more jobs for older workers by 2022.
February 2017

Article in the Independent

Sarah Vickerstaff’s Conversation article on retirement was picked up and published in the Independent.
February 2017

Online article in the Conversation

Sarah Vickerstaff published an article in the Conversation online forum on the subject of retirement and the effect of organisations of the rise of the state pension age.
January 2017

EWL in the Guardian

Chris Phillipson was consulted by the Guardian for his expert opinion on flexible retirement with specific reference to the case studies undertaken in this project.
2016

Appearance on national radio station

Wendy Loretto appeared as an expert speaker on an addition of Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour discussing the challenges facing women in the workplace.
2015

EWL quoted in the Guardian

Professor Chris Phillipson was quoted in an article in the Guardian entitled “Our Cities Must Undergo a Revolution for Older People”. This refers to Chris’s term “self-imposed house arrest” which he believes can be brought about as a result of cities not being designed or organised with older people in mind.

Other activities

February 2017

Work, health and ageing roundtable with Centre for Ageing Better

Sarah Vickerstaff was invited to take part in this roundtable event to inform the consultation on the Work and Health green paper.
2016

Discussant at The Age and Employment Network (TAEN) event

Professor Sarah Vickerstaff attended the event and acted as a discussant.
2015

Contribution to the public health initiative “Ageing well in work”

Chris Phillipson acted as an adviser and contributor to the Manchester public health initiative “Ageing well in work” involving conference presentations and discussion groups.
2015

Advising the Scottish government

Wendy Loretto took part in discussions which fed in to the production of the Creating a Fairer Scotland report with specific emphasis on older people in the workplace.