Mandate
Our research community is committed to broadening traditional approaches to the study of aging; advancing collaborative research to address the complex needs of an aging population, and training future researchers and practitioners to do the same.
The importance of community-engaged scholarship
Under the transversal pillar of ‘community-engaged scholarship’ that emphasizes agency, social participation, and inclusion of older adults in the aging process, engAGE will provide a platform to facilitate research undertaken within the four following inter-related areas.
Research axes
Our research at engAGE focuses on four inter-related areas of interest:
Culture, creativity and aging
Brings together research that emphasizes the variegated mediated cultural experiences of older people and considers the importance of creative approaches to later life that facilitate engagement with the arts and humanities.
Community, care and connectivity
Emphasizes research that involves communities in the development of practices and policies. This cluster also encourages a re-visioning of care (both formal and informal) that emphasizes older people as social actors who participate in a bidirectional and intergenerational experience of aging, social inclusion, and a sense of belonging.
Health, wellbeing and the lifecourse
Focuses on understanding how health and wellbeing are impacted as we age, aiming at adapting, integrating and strengthening the participation of older people in activities to promote an understanding of ageing as a biological and physical phenomena that is nevertheless situated socially and culturally.
Politics, policy & economics of aging
Explores public policy and political engagement of older adults, pointing to the multitude of public, private and community actors who are implicated in the policy arena.
