Who's who
Programme directors
Evandrou, Maria - Programme Director
Senior Lecturer in Gerontology, Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College London
Research interests: social policy issues concerning older people, in particular the retirement prospects of future cohorts of elders, especially health, dependency, pensions and financial resources, and formal and informal sources of support; health and socio-economic position of minority ethnic elders; the socio-economic position of informal carers; and health, disability and access to health and social services.
More information: Staff page
Contact details: Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 8WA; +44 (020) 7848 3038 (direct), +44 (020) 7848 3035 (secretary), +44 (020) 7848 3235 (Fax); Maria.Evandrou@kcl.ac.uk
Falkingham, Jane - Programme Director
Professor of Professor of Demography and International Social Policy, Department of Social Statistics, University of Southampton.
Research interests: Broadly divided into three areas, with demographic change and its consequences for the distribution of social and economic welfare and its distribution being a consistent theme throughout.
- Population ageing and social security, in particular the design of pension systems and their impact upon resources in later life.
- The redistributive effect of the welfare state, in particular how it varies both across the life-cycle for an individual and also between cohorts with changes in the life course.
- The impact of economic transition on living standards within the countries of the Former Soviet Union in general and within Central Asia in particular.
More information: Staff page
Contact details: Department of Social Statistics, University of Southampton, j.c.falkingham@soton.ac.uk or j.c.falkingham@lse.ac.uk
Johnson, Paul - Programme Director
Professor of Economic History, LSE
Research interests: economics of retirement and old age; pensions policy; economic and social history of Britain since 1850.
More information: Staff page; Experts
Contact details: Room C415, +44 (020) 7955 7061, p.a.johnson@lse.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Sefton, Tom
Contact details: Room R5Z25D, +44 (020) 7955 7613, t.a.sefton@lse.ac.uk ^
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