Research

The Gilbrea Centre is a distinctive research Centre in the area of applied critical social gerontology. We  have four intersecting research themes:

• Dementia and Social Inclusion
• Connecting in Later Life
• Embodiment, Wellbeing and Aging
• Space, Place and Aging

Our work is theoretically informed and applied to the study of different aspects of aging captured through our research themes. Collectively, we are concerned with social justice, social inclusion, health and wellbeing and exploring different contexts where people age including the community and institutional settings. We use a variety of research methods to conduct our research including ethnographic approaches, community engaged approaches and are interested in narratives and meaning making. Our work has a clear focus on processes of inquiry. That is we are interested in the process of conducting research as well as the substantive topic areas and the outcomes (findings) and outputs we produce.