Healthy Ageing Research & Practice Group

Dr Anna Charalambidou and Dr Josephine Machon are exploring Activity, Connectivity and Adventure: Fun Palaces as Intergenerational Sites of Healthy and Active Ageing.

Dr Fabia Franco, Dr Anthony Mangiacotti, Dr Emma Ward, Prof Martin Van Puyvelde (University of Brussels), Prof Gianfranco Gabai (University of Padova), Dr Michele Biasutti (University  of Padova), Dr Mind Hung Hsu (Methodist Homes Association), & Dr Giovanni Di Liberto (Di Liberato Lab). MusiCare. Funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust, this project assesses the impact of music therapy on older adults’ cognition and well-being.

Dr Laura Wilson, Dr Luke Oates, & Dr Emma Ward. Short Term Heat Acclimation in an Ageing Population. The aim of this project is to investigate the effectiveness of a STHA strategy in older individuals. The research will shed light on the effectiveness of the strategy, and inform policy for older and/or vulnerable individuals to protect them against the detrimental impacts of extreme heat during heatwaves.

• Dr Anastasia Christou (with Professor Domna Michail, University of Western Macedonia and Dr Raymondos Alvanos, Hellenic Open University, Greece). Narratives of the Greek Civil War. Independent Social Research Foundation Funded Project. While the topic is historical, the ethnography is contemporary (collecting oral histories from both first and subsequent generations, including 90+ year olds) and the themes of war, trauma, memory, public history are timely with particular links to gendered and generational aspects of these.
• Dr Anne Elliott & Dr Laura Wilson. Study on Rebounding in Middle Age. A number of chronic conditions will be considered with consideration of rehabilitative effects and outcomes of rebounding.

Prof George Dafoulas, Dr Akiko Ueno & Prof Charles Dennis Digital Poverty in the UK, British Academy Funded project. Draws attention to levels of digital exclusion in the UK, which increase almost exponentially with age.

Dr Emma Ward. EPS award working with the Jones, Silas, and Ward Lab to investigate the effects of temporal expectation on memory in aging using EEG.

Ward, E.V., Berry, C.J., Shanks, D.R., Moller, P.L., Czsiser, E.L. (2020). Aging predicts decline in explicit and implicit memory: A lifespan study. Psychological Science, 39, 1071–1083. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620927648

Sutton, J.L., Gould, R.L., Coulson, M.C., Ward, E.V., Butler, A.M., Smith, M., Lavell, G., Rosa, A., Langridge, M., & Howard, R.J. (2019). Multi-component frailty assessment tools for older people with functional mental illness: A systematic review. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 67, 1085-1095. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15710

Tunvirachaisakul, C., Gould, R.L., Coulson, M.C., Ward, E.V., Reynolds, G. Gathercole, R.L., Grocott, H., Supasitthumrong, T., Tunvirachaisakul, A., Kimona, K. Howard, R.L. (2018). Predictors of treatment outcome in depression in later life: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 227, 164-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.10.008

Ward, E.V., & Dhami, M.K. (2016). The aging decision-maker: Advances in understanding the impact of cognitive change on decision-making. Frontiers in Cognition, 7, 1622. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01622

Ward, E.V., & Berry, C.J., & Shanks, D.R. (2013). An effect of age on implicit memory that is not due to explicit contamination: Implications for single and multiple-systems theories. Psychology and Aging, 28, 429-442. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031888

Foster JHand Thom B.(2022)Older Drinkers: Alcohol consumption, drinking context and“successful ageing.”In Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course.Thurnell- Reid T andFenton L (eds), Palgrave MacMillan.

Hafford-Letchfield T., McQuarrie T., Clancy C., Thom B. and Jain B. (2020) Community Based Interventions for Problematic Substance Use in Later Life: A Systematic Review of Evaluated Studies and Their Outcomes International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, 7994; doi:10.3390/ijerph17217994 <

Christou, A. (2018) Ageing Across Austere Space and Time: Critical Insights on Social Crises, International Network for Critical Gerontology, blog: https://criticalgerontology.com/ageing-austere-critical-insights/

Christou, A. (2016) Ageing masculinities and the nation: Disrupting boundaries of sexualities, mobilities and identities, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2015.1058760

Christou, A. (2016) “Ageing 'Phantasmagorically' in Exile: The Resilience of Unbearable and Unattainable Homelands in the Jewish and Cuban Imagination”, in Walsh, K. and Nare, L. (eds.) Re-thinking Home: Transnational Migration and Older Age, Routledge.

Christou, A. (2013) "Ageing in the ancestral homeland: ethnobiographical reflections on return migration in later life", in Percival, J. (ed.) Return Migration in Later Life, Policy Press, pp. 179-193.

Fatima S., Augusto J.C., Moseley R., Urbonas P., Elliott A., Payne N. (2023) Applying Motivational Techniques for User Adherence to adopt a Healthy Lifestyle in a Gamified Application. Entertainment Computing. Springer.

Ali M., Augusto J.C., Windridge D., and Ward E. (2023) A User-guided Personalization Methodology to Facilitate New Smart Home Occupancy. Universal Access in the Information Society. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-022-00883-x

Gimenez Manuel J.G., Augusto J.C., Stewart J. (2022) AnAbEL: Towards Empowering people living with dementia in Ambient Assisted Living. Universal Access in the Information Society, 21:457–476. Springer.

Sakanga N., Augusto J.C., Brodie L., and Marzano L. (2022) Quality Traceability for User-centric Context-aware Systems in Intelligent Environments. Proceedings of Internet of Healthcare Things Workshop, co-located with IEEE 8th World Forum on Internet of Things 26th of October − 11th of November 2022, Yokohama, Japan.

Augusto J.C., Kramer D., Alegre U., Covaci A. and Santokhee A. (2017) The User-centred Intelligent Environments Development Process as a Guide to Co-create Smart Technology for People with Special Needs. Universal Access in the Information Society, 17(1), 115-130. Springer.

Charalambidou, A. (2015). The construction of culinary expert through recipe tellings among older Greek Cypriot women. In: T. S. Pavlidou (ed) Greek Language and Conversational Interaction: Studies in spoken discourse. Thessaloniki: AUT. 217-232. [in Greek]

Charalambidou, A. (2015). Language and age identities among older Greek Cypriot women. Reading, interpreting, experiencing: Special Issue of Modern Greek Studies Journal (edited by M. Tsianikas, G. Couvalis and M. Palaktsoglou), 112-124. http://hdl.handle.net/2328/35486

Charalambidou, A.and A. Georgakopoulou (2014).‘I will make you widows laugh’: A narrative-analytic perspective on conversational joke telling and tellers in a group of older Greek Cypriot women. In M. Christodoulidou-Parlali (ed.), AnalysingGreek Talk-in-interaction. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 130-156.

Georgakopoulou, A. and A. Charalambidou(2011). Doing age and ageing: language, discourse and social interaction. In K. Aijmer and G. Andersen (eds.), Pragmatics of Society. Berlin: Mouton – de Gruyter, 29-51.

Charalambidou, A. (2011). Constructions of age identities in everyday conversations through painful self-disclosures. In K. A. Dimadis (ed.), Identities in the Greek world (form 1204 to the present day), vol. 3. Athens: European Society of Modern Greek Studies, 85-100.

Elliott, A., Evans, T., Cohen, R., Watt, J., & Volante, M. (2022). ‘Was physical education as bad as people remember it? A qualitative thematic review’. THE SKY-International Journal of Physical Education and Sports Sciences (IJPESS), 18-31.

Elliott, A., & Evans, T. (2022) ‘Is the answer to improved health hiding in plain sight?’. Integrated Care Journal. Published Online

Ali, S.B., & Elliott, A. (2021). ‘Perceived Barriers to Physical Activity in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) Patients during COVID-19 Pandemic in the UAE’. J Adv Sport Phys Edu, 4(11): 225-233.

Tijana Purenović-Ivanović, Raša Dejanović, Danijela Živković, Saša Bubanj, Andela Đošić and Anne Elliott (2021). The effect of resistance training on bone mineral density in postmenopausal women. International Network of Sport and Health Science 17th Sport Specific Convention 1-3 Dec 2021, Budapest, Hungary

Dafoulas, G., Ueno, A. and Dennis, C. (2022) ‘Digital poverty in the UK: Analysis of Secondary Data’. London: The British Academy. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/digital-poverty-in-the-uk-analysis-of-secondary-data/.

Vecchi, M., Elf, P., Ueno, A., Dilmperi, A., Dennis, C. and Devereux, L. (2022) ‘Shall We Dance? Dance, Well-Being and Productivity Performance during COVID-19: A Three-Country Study’, Journal of International Marketing, 1069031X221079609.

Papagiannidis, S., Bourlakis, M., Alamanos, E., & Dennis, C. (2017). Preferences of smart shopping channels and their impact on perceived wellbeing and social inclusion. Computers in Human Behavior, 77, 396–405.

Dennis, C., Alamanos, E., Papagiannidis, S., & Bourlakis, M. (2016). Does social exclusion influence multiple channel use? The interconnections with community, happiness, and well-being. Journal of Business Research, 69(3), 1061–1070.