Author: mlovatt

It’s been a while since our last update and so we want to bring you up to speed with the project. Back in February we were invited by the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter to talk about our research. As well as presenting initial findings we also … Continue reading August 2022 update

Back in April Val wrote about using forum theatre as a method to reimagine the future in older age. Forum theatre, she noted, allows performers and audience members to ‘actively participate’ in order to encourage critical reflection and rehearse strategies of resistance to challenge oppression and marginalisation. In this post I reflect on how I … Continue reading On putting the ‘act’ into active participant

In our previous blog post, we announced that we’re recruiting ‘self-identified’ older people to take part in an online theatre workshop. The term ‘self-identified’ seems to have ruffled some feathers, and so this is a response in good faith which hopefully answers some questions.  Researchers of older age and later life have always had to … Continue reading What do we mean by ‘self-identified’ older adult

This is not the introductory blog post we had planned to write. It’s not the blog post we would have written in January, when the project started, or what we would have written last month, last week, or even yesterday. COVID-19 has intruded into every aspect of our lives and we find ourselves striving to … Continue reading Why we need to reimagine the future