Through our 2025-2030 strategic framework, we are working with the community to help drive the changes needed for people in the UK to age well. This includes promoting equity, diversity and inclusion, building capacity, fostering connections and expanding opportunities …
Members of the Vivensa Academy have access to free priority places to attend Standing up for Science workshops.
Do you have an idea about research on ageing, that you would like to pitch?
We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the 2026 UKARFF Early Career Researcher’s (ECRs) event!
We’re kicking off a new Lunchtime Learning series for members of the Vivensa Academy. These short, online monthly meets will be a chance to listen to a fellow Academy member talk on a topic that will be of practical use to all.
Following our eighth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
The Institute for Employment Research (IER) with Chris Warhurst as the Principal Investigator was awarded Vivensa Academy Ignition funding to look into one of the biggest pressures facing health and care services in the UK: delayed hospital discharge. This happens when someone is medically ready to leave hospital but cannot return home or move into the right care setting straight away.
Professor Nathan Davies is the recipient of our 2026 Senior Leader Vivensa Academy Excellence Award. We spoke to him about leadership rooted in personal values, his plans to build research capacity and his commitment to creating lasting change in the field of ageing research.
We have partnered with Sense about Science to offer our Academy members who are early career researchers free priority places on their Voice of Young Science Programme.
We talk to Dr Mahmoud Maina – our 2026 Rising Star in the Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards – about his research spanning two continents.
Following our sixth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
We talk to the winners of the new ‘Team Achievement’ category in our annual Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards – the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG). Here, members share their approach to co-production, plans for their 10th anniversary celebration and their hopes for the future of the research group.