Delighted to have contributed to a panel discussion on ‘Ageing Better’ at The Coming of Age Symposium at the Wellcome Trust, London, chaired by Pragya Agarwal, joining Aideen Young from the Centre for Ageing Better and Daniel Davies from University College London.
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Literature and Science in the Public Sphere
Delighted to have been invited to contribute to a special issue of Public Humanities, on Literature and Science in the Public Sphere, edited by John Holmes, Jenni G Halpin and Aura Heydenreich. My article explores ‘Cognitive augmentation in speculative writing’.
A biological turn in the medical humanities
Thrilled to have been invited to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing and Care (CIRAC) at the University of Graz, Austria, to speak in the Health Humanities Lecture Series – arguing for a ‘biological turn’ in the medical humanities that integrates narrative and empowers policy.
SAACY at the Warwick District Faiths Forum
Excited to have been invited back to speak at the annual Warwick District Faiths Forum Wellbeing Conference. My talk explored rethinking ageing – why does it matter and how can we achieve it, in theory and practice.
Rethinking Ageing: The Film
This short film is a co-production with Reuben &Co (and animations by Camille Aubry) arising from The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth (SAACY). SAACY project partners featuring in this film are Age UK, Brixton Windmill, Centre for Ageing Better, and InCommon. Rethinking Ageing was filmed on location, at Lambeth Town Assembly Hall, in November 2024.
Lifelines: Rethinking Ageing across Generations
A free exhibition at Science Gallery London, invites people of all ages to consider ageing as a lifelong process, rather than a phase of decline that happens towards the end of life. Open 29 May until 2 August 2025.
Offering an open space for conversations across generations and complete with film, objects, photographs and animations highlighting our shared human experiences, Lifelines prompts the visitor to address how inequalities impact health and quality of life in older age, and to consider what we can learn from one another. It assures us that together, we can creatively rethink ageing, embracing and preparing for the challenges, joys, and surprises of getting older.
SAACY at InCommon
Delighted to have been invited to speak at an InCommon Lunch and Learn event about the Policy Report, Shifting How We View the Ageing Process, which summarises the Themes for Actions and Next Steps explored during a Policy Lab held in the framework of my research programme on The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth, funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.
SAACY at Age UK
Delighted to have been invited to speak at the Age UK Influencing Division Briefing about the Policy Report, Shifting How We View the Ageing Process, which summarises the Themes for Actions and Next Steps explored during a Policy Lab held in the framework of my research programme on The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth, funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.
Shifting How We View the Ageing Process
As part of The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth, we had run a Policy Lab together with the Policy Institute at King’s in Autumn 2022. The one-day workshop had brought together academic researchers from a range of disciplines, practicing clinicians, people with lived experience and representatives from the care sector, charities and the policy world to explore how valuable, feasible and acceptable it would be to shift how we view the ageing process. Read the full Policy Report here.
SAACY Lifelong Ageing conference 17th May 2023
A rewarding day of conversations across sectors and disciplines about ageing as a lifelong process. Thanks to Camille Aubry for this illustration of a productive SAACY conference at Science Gallery London.
Martina Zimmermann 