Project team
Professor Alan Walker, Director
Professor Alan Walker is Director of the European Research Area in Ageing and The UK New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, also Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is co-founder and Chair of the European Foundation on Social Quality.
Previously he was Director of the Economic and Social Research Council's Growing Older programme, the UK National Collaboration on Ageing Research and the European FORUM project. He was a member of the Technical Committee responsible for drafting the Revised UN Plan of Action on Ageing and he chaired the European Commission's Observatory on Ageing and Older People.
He has been researching and writing on ageing and related issues for nearly 30 years and has published more than 20 books, 200 reports and 300 scientific papers. He has held visiting Chairs in Canada, China, Israel and Japan.
As well as being a scientist, Alan Walker is an active participant in older people's organisations as patron of the UK National Pensioners' Convention and the Greater London Forum for the Elderly.
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Juliet Craig, Senior Research Manager
Juliet (BA, MSc) managed the day-to-day activities of the consortium, ensuring that all reporting and legal requirements were met and led the project team. She also worked on the parallel Futurage project.
Juliet has worked in research and information management since 1998, most recently at Creative Sheffield, supporting the development of Sheffield's economy, labour market, urban environment and knowledge economy.