🌆 Reimagining Age-Friendly Cities: Urban Ageing and Spatial Justice
At a recent talk at Simon Fraser University, Prof. Tine Buffel explored how cities can better support ageing populations in an era of rapid urbanisation. 🧵
10.07.2025 08:57 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 First Conversation of 25/26🚨
Join us Tuesday, Sept 9 (2–3PM GMT+1) at the University of Manchester for:
“Travel and Zero-Vehicle Households Among Older Americans”
with Dr. Shengxiao (Alex) Li
📍G30/31 Arthur Lewis Building
14.07.2025 12:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Our chapter, ‘Housing and the Environment’, by MUARG Director Tine Buffel @tinebuffel.bsky.social and Mark Hammond, explores the impact of poor housing conditions in the North, where 1.47 million homes are classed as non-decent, over a third of which house people aged 60+.
25.06.2025 08:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Getting ready for my keynote at the Friesen conference in Vancouver next week. Excited and a little nervous! ✈️ Packing now; any must-see recommendations for a first-time visitor with limited time? Always up for a quick adventure in between presentations! 🤩
31.05.2025 07:40 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
⭐@pattydoran.bsky.social @tinebuffel.bsky.social
& @muarg.bsky.social team win the staff category for their #AgeFriendlyFutures summit bringing together 300 age-friendly leaders share knowledge & shape the future of age-friendly policy and practice
08.05.2025 12:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
We still have some places left for our final Conversation of the year!
Follow the link below to join us on the 1st of May 🎉
23.04.2025 10:39 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌟 Featured Article 🌟
We are delighted to see MUARG represented in The Guardian's latest article on Age-Friendly neighbourhoods in North Manchester.
23.04.2025 13:55 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Eventbrite registration page
🌟 Join us for the final MUARG Conversation Series of the semester! 🌟
📅 Date: Thu, 1 May 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00–13:30
📍 Location: Ken Committee Room, John Owens Building, University of Manchester
03.04.2025 19:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Tess Hartland at the age friendly futures event
"It is estimated that up to 3% of asylum seekers are classed as older people, and these numbers are increasing. They face a multitude of distinct challenges and have specific health needs." Says Tess Hartland, PhD Researcher, the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group, University of Manchester.
27.03.2025 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Quote card reading: "The State of Ageing Report highlights the unacceptable differences in how people are ageing across the country. It serves as a wakeup call for us all radically to rethink how we deliver public services, and if we don’t, millions of us will miss out on a good later life
"The State of Ageing Report highlights the unacceptable differences in how people are ageing across the country. It serves as a wakeup call for us all radically to rethink how we deliver public services, and if we don’t, millions of us will miss out on a good later life" Says @mayorofgm.bsky.social
27.03.2025 15:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🌍 Reflecting on Day 3 of the #AgeFriendlyFuturesSummit
As the final day of the summit draws to a close, we look back on three remarkable days of dialogue, collaboration, and ambition to build inclusive environments where everyone can age well.
28.03.2025 08:28 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
27.03.2025 14:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 Day 2 of the #AgeFriendlyFutures Summit in Manchester has been another inspiring call to action—showing how policy & practice can drive truly #AgeFriendly cities. 🏙️💡
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27.03.2025 13:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
We are at the #AgeFriendlyFutures summit in Manchester today with @muarg.bsky.social @ageingbetter.bsky.social, @manmetuni.bsky.social @whoeurope.bsky.social and GMCA and the GM Ageing Hub. Looking forward to meeting 200 champions for an age-friendly future here in our very own age-friendly city.
25.03.2025 11:09 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
It's a full house for the Age-Friendly Futures Summit today! 🏙️
We're here with @AgeingBetter.Bsky.Social, Manchester Metropolitan University, The WHO and Greater Manchester to talk about age friendly futures- combining research, policy and practice.
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25.03.2025 11:38 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
Collyhurst Voices: Community perspectives on urban regeneration
Film screening and panel discussion curated by Manchester Urban Film Series in collaboration with Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group
FILM SCREENING
📽 Collyhurst Voices: Community perspectives on urban regeneration
📆 6pm Weds 19 Mar 2025
Free screening of community-produced film
@muarg.bsky.social @tinebuffel.bsky.social @pattydoran.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collyhurst...
07.03.2025 10:29 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
We still have a few tickets left for our Conversation with Prof. Judith Phillips, sign up now!
03.03.2025 09:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🎉🎓Congratulations to Miriam Tenquist on passing her viva w. minor corrections. Her thesis is 'Ageing, Identity, & Place: A Life Course Perspective on Chinese Diasporic Experiences in the UK' & her supervisory team is @gerontologyuk.bsky.social @tinebuffel.bsky.social & Nan Zhang @muarg.bsky.social
26.02.2025 17:37 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Gallery Talk: Florence Claxton's 'Woman's Work: A Medley'
Celebrate International Women's Day with us and discover our recent acquisition.
Join us on 8 March for an International Women’s Day talk.
Curator Hannah Williamson will explore Florence Claxton’s Woman’s Work, a Medley, examining its humour and feminist themes with high-resolution images
📍 Gallery 7
🕚 11am–12pm | Free | Book via Eventbrite
www.eventbrite.com/e/gallery-ta...
14.02.2025 09:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to Prof Sandra Torres’s workshop today and talk tomorrow!
11.02.2025 09:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy New Year! 🎉
There are still tickets available for our first Conversation of 2025 with Sandra Torres, see below for more details! 🔗
20.01.2025 10:11 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Really enjoyed listening to Ajmal Hussain present his research on memory, belonging, and (not) being ‘left behind’ in Stoke-on-Trent. Looking forward to reading his book! @ethnicityuk.bsky.social
16.01.2025 18:32 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see the Annual CMO Report on Health & Cities published.
It was a privilege to co-author the #ActiveTravel in Cities Chapter with Eleanor Roaf & Dr Jo Maher.
Enjoying reading the other chapters which are jam packed with insights.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6756e6...
12.12.2024 21:52 — 👍 15 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 MUARG’s Dr Maohui Deng has been awarded Runner-Up for the BAFTSS Best First Monograph award for his book, ‘Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances’. 📚✨
12.12.2024 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks for this! Only just joined bluesky and this was incredible useful. I’d be happy to be included in this community if possible
08.12.2024 09:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Human geography and demography research group in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
https://populationandhealth.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
The Centre for Research on Ageing (CRA) at the University of Southampton is a leading multidisciplinary centre studying ageing and influencing policy locally, nationally, and globally.
JUST is a new research Centre focused on the pursuit of sustainability transformations that are people-centred, ‘joined-up’ and socially just.
https://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/joined-up-sustainability-transformations/
Exchanging ideas, learning and opportunities, connecting people with a passion to work collaboratively to end #ageism. #TogetherAgainstAgeism. Info at https://www.britishgerontology.org/about-bsg/special-interest-groups/ageism
Gender Scholar
Researching (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Supporting housing, health, and social care professionals by connecting people, ideas, and resources. Sharing market insights and intelligence.
Founded in 1949, International Sociological Association represents sociologists everywhere, regardless of their school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion. Get to know us better at www.isa-sociology.org
Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) offers distance learning courses and advice and guidance to people in prison. We use our policy and advocacy work to improve prison education.
Support us here: prisonerseducation.org.uk/donate
Sustainable Futures of @official-uom.bsky.social has a network of 500+ researchers to deliver sustainable solutions to urgent environmental challenges.
tinyurl.com/SustainableUoM
Research Associate @uomsociology; Race and ethnicity, whiteness, Frenchness, Indian indenture in the Caribbean, South Asian identities and diaspora
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/manuela.latchoumaya
Labour disciplining & racialised debt | Digital rights of workers | Written: 'Surplused Lives. Roma under Czech racial capitalism.' MUP | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester. past: researcher @amnesty
https://vimeo.com/842892762/c58992
Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Human-Animal Relations, Environment and Society, Sustainable Consumption
Official page for #BlackLivesMatterUK A coalition of people from across the UK struggling for racial justice and equality. #BlackLivesMatterUK
🌐 ukblm.org
Founded in 1905, the ASA's mission is to serve sociologists in their work, advance sociology as a science and profession, and promote the contributions and use of sociology to society. Our most popular pages here: https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
Researching racism, anti-racism and ethnic, racial and religious inequalities.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/codemcr
Website: http://www.ethnicity.ac.uk
