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| Promoting multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary ageing research in the United Kingdom | | Author(s) | Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Alan Walker |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 31, part 1, January 2011 |
| Pages | pp 52-69 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Research ; Multi disciplinary ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Collaboration between disciplines is common practice in many areas of ageing research. However, there remains much to be done to develop and support such work. This article reviews key developments in the promotion of multi-disciplinary science on ageing in the UK and highlights how this is being pursued in the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) Programme, a major cross-Research Council programme of multi-disciplinary research which spans the social, medical, biological and engineering sciences and the arts and humanities. Funding agencies, scientific associations and other stakeholders in ageing research are actively involved in establishing the methods and means to promote cross-disciplinary co-operation in the field. In the UK since the late 1990s, the statutory Research Councils with key interests in ageing and older people have been actively pursuing research programmes that feature multi- and inter-disciplinary activities. The National Collaboration on Ageing Research (NCAR), a partnership among four of the Research Councils to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaboration, worked with scientists, funding bodies, and research users to develop approaches to multi- and inter-disciplinary research, and this work informed the NDA. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110224004 A |
| Classmark | BG: 3A: 3DM: 8 |
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