Professor Sarah Harper
Director, Oxford Institute of Ageing
University of Oxford
Professor Sarah Harper is leading on the Beyond Current Horizons research challenge ‘Generations and lifecourse’.
Sarah is the Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford. She continues her research into the social implications of demographic ageing, with particular emphases on late life work and flexible retirement and intergenerational relationships and the family. Formerly a professor in Public Policy at the University of Chicago, she has worked in age related issues in the US, Australia, China and Sweden.
Current research interests include late life work and flexible retirement among the self-employed, and among those working in the new technology industry; age discrimination and employment practises; and the impact of labour market replacement migration on intergenerational relationships in the EU.
Sarah is Global Advisor on Ageing Issues to HSBC, a Governor of the Pension’s Policy Institute, International Collaborator with the Australian Research Council/NHMRC Research Network, and a member of Help the Aged’s Research Strategy Advisory Board and Social Policy Committee. She is co-ordinator for Oxford University, of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) research programme on ageing. She is past co-editor of ‘Generations Review’, the Journal of the British Society of Gerontology, and is co-editor of ‘Journal of Population Ageing’, to be launched late 2008. Her latest books are ‘Families in Ageing Societies’, an international research volume (OUP, 2004), ‘Ageing Societies’, (Hodder Arnold, 2006), and ‘Ageing in Asia’ (Routledge 2008).
