News and Updates

Professor Wendy Loretto discusses harnessing new technology to create an innovative solution to supporting healthy ageing at work.

We are delighted to announce that SHAW’s PI, Professor Wendy Loretto, and Co-I Jakov Jandric have been successfully awarded UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding as part of the Healthy Ageing Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK and ESRC.

Dr Belinda Steffan, Project Manager and Co-Investigator of the Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work project, highlights the need for organisations to explicitly offer menopause, health and wellbeing support.

Listen to Professor Wendy Loretto, PI on the Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work project, discuss her research on ageing in the workplace.

The SHAW Project is part of the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge, which has now reached the halfway point since its launch in 2019.

Watch Kiersten's vlog update on the SHAW Stage 2 design research process and planned design research activities.

Watch our Principal Investigator Professor Wendy Loretto discussing Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work at the Healthy Ageing UK Conference on 15 November 2021.

Dr Athanasios Tsanas (University of Edinburgh, Centre of Population Health Sciences) explains how wearable devices will be used in SHAW to collect data on sleep and physical activity, and how this is relevant to supporting healthy ageing at work.

Mariska van der Horst (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), Sajia Ferdous (University of Manchester), and Chris Phillipson (University of Manchester) raise some critical issues about the policy of extending working life in the context of Covid-19.

The SHAW study involves academics and industry working closely together to solve a key societal challenge — how to support healthy ageing at work and enable productive later-life employment.