Event: Exploring ageing through national datasets (Data Resources Training Network)
19/10/2025
Categories: Research using linked data, Research findings, ADR England, Office for National Statistics, Growing old, Health & wellbeing
19 October 2025
The Data Resources Training Network welcomes you to the second webinar in their 2025 series, Exploring ageing through national datasets.
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The webinar will focus on secondary, quantitative data. The speakers will be:
- George B. Ploubidis who will consider a cross-generational life-course approach to healthy ageing in the 21st century, arguing that understanding, addressing the challenges, and seizing the opportunities of an ageing population requires robust evidence spanning the entire life course and multiple generations. Drawing on the UK’s nationally representative birth cohort studies, he will present key insights into the social, economic, and biological factors that shape health and discuss how generational differences illuminate ways to delay chronic illness, promoting health, functioning, and productivity.
- Athina Vlachantoni who will explore pension protection among minority ethnic communities in the UK. Drawing on a three-year ESRC-funded project, she combines nationally representative data with interviews and focus groups to reveal persistent ethnic and gender gaps in pension membership and saving behaviour as well as culture-specific approaches to later-life finance. The talk discusses how UK pension protection can become more inclusive for future cohorts.
- Bram Vanhoutte who, drawing on 10 years of data from the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, examines the gap between subjective and chronological age, the role of functional health, and differences between birth cohorts.
The webinar will be chaired by Elizabeth Webb, Head of Research at Age UK.
Event details
When: 9 October, 13:30-15:00
Where: Online
Cost: Free
How to attend: Register online.
