Leading with curiosity and openness: A spotlight on our 2025 Senior Leader
Hear from Professor Vicki Goodwin, our 2025 Senior Leader Award-holder, on her approach to leadership in clinical research.
Stories from our award-holders
The importance of psychological factors in managing falls: A spotlight on our 2025 Rising Star
Hear from Dr Toby Ellmers, our 2025 Rising Star Award holder, on his work to champion the importance of psychological factors in fall management and recovery.
Making an impact part 1: Building age-friendly communities
We are supporting community-level change by funding projects that build age-friendly communities. Here we see members of the Bangla Housing Association’s community of researchers at a meeting of the Amar bari, amar jibon project.
Putting VCSE-researcher-public sector partnerships at the heart of ageing research
By funding projects that bring together academic researchers and community organisations, we aim to foster collaborations that result in real-world impact for communities of older people.
Success and recognition for the Queen’s Nurses in Scotland
We are delighted to share that one of our funded nurses won two prestigious awards at the Royal College of Nursing awards on 12 June 2025. Kirsty Cartin was named RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year 2025 and also took home a Clinical Leadership Award.
Building trust, sharing power, making an impact: How to get community-engaged research projects right
By funding projects that bring together academic researchers and community organisations, we aim to foster collaborations that result in real-world impact for communities of older people.
Reaching non-academic audiences through the media: How to plan for success
Communicating research results to non-academic audiences can feel daunting. We spoke to the team behind Audit-50 to learn what key aspects should be planned in advance in order to reach broader audiences.
Building links with seldom-heard and seldom-asked older communities
Read how Prof Mark Hawley at the University of Sheffield is connecting with “seldom-heard” communities to ensure his project is representative and inclusive.
Improving the quality of life for care home residents with chronic diseases
When nearing the end of their life, care home residents with chronic diseases can often find themselves in and out of hospital. This affects their quality of life and is distressing for both them and their families. Prof. Irene Higginson and Drs Anna Bone and Clare Ellis-Smith, from the Cicely Saunders Institute, initiated the Integrated Community Palliative Partnership (ICPP) project to investigate how to improve care for people in care homes with long-term illnesses.
Can mindfulness help prevent dementia in older adults at risk?
Dr Tim Whitfield at University College London undertook a PhD that looked at predicting the onset of dementia in people with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and investigated how mindfulness may help prevent cognitive decline.
Improving geriatric care through a new innovative training programme for medical students
Despite the UK’s ageing population, there is a lack of training in geriatric care for undergraduate medical students. In collaboration with colleagues, Dr Grace Pearson and Dr Emily Henderson, both at the University of Bristol, have developed a new undergraduate curriculum that delivers more effective training on how to care holistically for older people. They set out to evaluate the training so see whether it can inspire more students to pursue careers in geriatric medicine.
Unravelling the mystery of frozen shoulder
Frozen shoulder is a painful and disabling condition, but how it develops remains unknown. Read how Hamez Gacaferi’s work is starting to unravel this mystery.