Professor Susan Pickard MA(Oxon) MSt (Oxon), MA (Manchester) PhD (Bristol)
Professor of Sociology and Head of Department Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
- Work email Susan.Pickard@liverpool.ac.uk
Research
Research Interests
My past and ongoing research interests are centred upon lay and medical conceptualisations of the ageing body, especially frailty, gender and its intersection with age, age theory, gender (and feminist) theory and time and temporality.
Research Group Membership
Research Grants
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