Project aims

The Work and Retirement Research Group aims to:

Conduct high quality research into age and retirement issues,
To foster engagement and networking between disciplines, and
To impact public policy discourse through the provision of high quality evidence-based research.

The Group is particularly interested in the impact of part-time and flexible working policies on workers and employers from a range of perspectives including health and welfare, economics, law and psychology.

The Research Group is developing an extensive programme of work focused on three main objectives:

To build a collaborative, university-wide research-based network that draws together an inter-disciplinary group of researchers (at all career stages) to share research in order to facilitate interdisciplinary knowledge and to enable the identification of aligned research interests
To develop interdisciplinary research proposals designed to impact and inform public discourse on work and retirement issues
To strengthen international discussion and support rigorous knowledge exchange on research and public policy issues on ageing, work and retirement