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Professor Susan Pickard MA(Oxon) MSt (Oxon), MA (Manchester) PhD (Bristol), SFHEA

Professor of Sociology and Head of Department Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology

Research

Research Interests

My past and ongoing research interests are centred upon lay and medical conceptualisations of the ageing body, especially frailty, sex and gender and its intersection with age; age theory; feminist theory (especially drawing on second wave feminist theory that retains the importance of sex analytically); and conceptual approaches to time and temporality.

Research Group Membership

Research Grants

The menopause transition and the role of health care providers for minority ethnic women

MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2023 - September 2025

Understanding the varied experiences of frailty in older age with respect to ethnicity: a mixed methods approach

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

September 2022 - September 2025

The future of geriatric medicine

BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)

April 2012 - March 2013

Collaboration with US colleagues in sociological research on ageing

LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)

March 2014 - January 2015

'New Thinking on Living with Dying': Research Network

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2012 - March 2014