Sarah Harper
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sarah Harper FRAI CBE is a British gerontologist, who established Oxford's Institute of Population Ageing, and became the University of Oxford's first Professor of Gerontology. She served on the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology between 2014 and 2017 and in 2017 was appointed Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Sarah was appointed a CBE in 2018 for services to the Science of Demography.
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Published Works
- Economic and social implications of aging societies (2014) (418)
- Aging Populations and Management (2014) (192)
- Rethinking the geography of ageing (1995) (131)
- Qualifications: a fast‐track to hotel general manager? (2005) (96)
- Critical approaches to ageing and later life (1997) (61)
- The British rural community: an overview of perspectives (1989) (45)
- Introducing the Journal of Population Ageing (2008) (43)
- The purchase of children’s clothing – who has the upper hand? (2003) (40)
- A humanistic approach to the study of rural populations (1987) (39)
- Ageing Societies: Myths, Challenges and Opportunities (2005) (39)
- Attitudes and practices of employers towards ageing workers: evidence from a global survey on the future of retirement (2006) (37)
- Family Care, Independent Living and Ethnicity (2005) (33)
- Addressing the implications of global ageing (2006) (33)
- Families in ageing societies : a multi-disciplinary approach (2004) (32)
- Changing Families as European Societies Age (2003) (29)
- Living Longer, Living Well (2014) (29)
- Claims on and obligations to kin in Cape Town, South Africa (2010) (28)
- Population–Environment Interactions: European Migration, Population Composition and Climate Change (2013) (28)
- Families in Ageing Societies (2004) (27)
- Ageing 2000—questions for the 21st century (2000) (27)
- Grandmothers as Replacement Parents and Partners: The Role of Grandmotherhood in Single Parent Families (2010) (26)
- The Rural-Urban Interface in England: A Framework of Analysis (1987) (26)
- The Kinship Network of the Rural Aged: A Comparison of the Indigenous Elderly and the Retired Inmigrant (1987) (25)
- The Capacity of Social Security and Health Care Institutions to Adapt to an Ageing World (2010) (24)
- Educational differentials in the realisation of fertility intentions: Is sub-Saharan Africa different? (2019) (21)
- Mature Societies: Planning for Our Future Selves (2006) (21)
- The Challenge for Families of Demographic Ageing (2004) (20)
- International Handbook on Ageing and Public Policy (2014) (20)
- Fuelling the fisheries subsidy debate: Agreements, loopholes and implications (2012) (19)
- The greening of rural policy: international perspectives. (1993) (18)
- The English rural community: Brian Short (ed.), 239 pp., 1992, Cambridge University Press, £12.95 pbk (1993) (17)
- Environment, migration and the European demographic deficit (2012) (16)
- The Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Demography (2015) (16)
- Ageing in Asia (2008) (16)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing: Grandparenthood (2005) (15)
- An Upper Limit to Human Longevity? (2008) (14)
- The Convergence of Population Ageing with Climate Change (2019) (14)
- Caring for China's Ageing Population: The Residential Option — A Case Study of Shanghai (1992) (14)
- British rural settlements in the hinterland of conurbations : a classification. (1987) (14)
- Age-Related Capacity Decline : A Review of some Workplace Implications (13)
- Ethics versus morality (2009) (12)
- The Ageing of Family Life Transitions (2006) (11)
- Introduction: Asia's Position in the New Global Demography (2006) (10)
- Family Support of the Elderly and Female Labour Supply: Trade-Offs among Caregiving, Financial Transfers, and Work—Evidence from the US Health and Retirement Survey (2004) (10)
- Working Carers in the European Union (2004) (10)
- Demographic Transition: Positioning the Age-structural Change Perspective (2011) (9)
- The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Global Population Ageing (2021) (9)
- The Important Role of Migration for an Ageing Nation (2016) (9)
- A systematic review of physical and psychological health and wellbeing of older women in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2020) (9)
- Editorial and Introduction (2010) (9)
- Review of Longevity Trends in the United Kingdom to 2025 and Beyond (2008) (9)
- Living Longer within Ageing Societies (2019) (8)
- The COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Adults: Institutionalised Ageism or Pragmatic Policy? (2020) (8)
- Achieving Replacement Level Fertility (2013) (7)
- Towards an Evidence-Based Active Ageing Strategy (2018) (7)
- The retirement aspirations of older self-employed workers in the UK (2004) (6)
- Editorial: Dawning of a New Age for Longitudinal Cohort Data (2013) (6)
- The Impact of Life Course Employment and Domestic Duties on the Well-Being of Retired Women and the Social Protection Systems That Frame This (2018) (6)
- The American Family as a Context for Healthy Ageing (2004) (6)
- Inheritance and Intergenerational Relationships in English Families (2004) (5)
- Health and Well-Being in Older Workers: Capacity Change with Age (2011) (5)
- Societal challenges and the capacity to adapt: Social Security in an ageing world (2010) (5)
- Addressing Longevity, Life Expectancy and Health Life Expectancy (2015) (5)
- The Availability and Supportive Functions of Extended Kinship Ties in Later Life: Evidence from the Berlin Ageing Study (2004) (5)
- Demography: A Very Short Introduction (2018) (4)
- The Opportunity for “Design” to Influence the Ageing Process Itself (2013) (4)
- Impact of the Increase in State Benefits on the Pattern of Expenditure by Patients in a High Secure Hospital (2008) (4)
- The End of Youth (2013) (3)
- Editorial: Social Security in an Ageing World (2009) (3)
- The Lengthening of Life: The Importance of Context and Life Course (2018) (3)
- Editorial: Inequalities in Access to Education: Failing to Provide Skills-Building and Empowerment to Girls (2012) (3)
- The impact of the outmigration of female care workers on informal family care in Nigeria and Bulgaria (2008) (3)
- The Reformation of Age and Ageing (2017) (2)
- Japan in the New Global Demography: Comparative Perspectives (2020) (2)
- Employment trajectories and health: cohort differences in English and French women. (2020) (2)
- Some Implications of Population Ageing for Societies and Individuals (2018) (2)
- Introduction: conceptualizing social policy for the twenty-first-century demography (2014) (2)
- Role -centered morality (2007) (2)
- Transnational mobility and cross-border family life cycles: A century of Welsh-Italian migration (2019) (2)
- Extreme Longevity (2019) (2)
- Harnessing the youth bulge (2017) (2)
- Son or Daughter Care in Relation to Self-Reported Health Outcomes for Older Adults in China (2022) (2)
- Societal Need for Interdisciplinary Ageing Research: An International Alliance of Research Universities “Ageing, Longevity and Health” Stream (IARU-ALH) Position Statement (2021) (2)
- Falling Fertility, Ageing and Europe’s Demographic Deficit (2013) (2)
- Longevity, Politics and Science – Moving from the Outcomes to Understanding the Process (2017) (1)
- Social Care for Older People: The Growth of Independent-Sector Provision in the UK (2004) (1)
- A Chance to Create a Better World? (2020) (1)
- Critical readings on ageing in East Asia (2014) (1)
- The Puzzle of Retirement and Early Retirement (2005) (1)
- Intergenerational Relationships among Stepfamilies in the UK (2004) (1)
- The Implications of an Ageing Population for the Railway (2008) (1)
- Global Risks and the Resilience of Future Health Care Systems (2020) (1)
- Active Ageing Index (2016–18): Addressing a Long-Standing Strategic Policy Aim (2020) (1)
- Models of Kinship from the Developed World (2004) (1)
- Migration and ageing societies (2014) (1)
- Editorial : People and the Planet: The Role of Global Population in Sustainable Development () (2009) (1)
- A comparison of theory and life experiences in heteroculturality (1986) (1)
- Hope is a wooded time : an eco-performance of biodiversity in discarded geographic and social space (2015) (1)
- Understanding the implications of population ageing for mid-life women (2003) (0)
- Global Risks and the Resilience of Future Health Care Systems (2020) (0)
- The Important Role of Migration for an Ageing Nation (2016) (0)
- Forty Years of Global Action on Ageing: What Has Been Achieved? (2022) (0)
- Youth - A Scare Commodity within an Ageing World (2012) (0)
- 7. A demographer’s toolbox (2018) (0)
- New technological based firms, late life work and retirement aspirations (2002) (0)
- 10. Population policies and future challenges (2018) (0)
- Sociology of normal ageing (2012) (0)
- Retirement : From rest to Reward to Right (2014) (0)
- Population–Environment Interactions: European Migration, Population Composition and Climate Change (2013) (0)
- Editorial: Dawning of a New Age for Longitudinal Cohort Data (2013) (0)
- 2. From 55,000 to 7 billion (2018) (0)
- Population pressure in African countries will not be alleviated by family planning programmes alone (2018) (0)
- Making the UK more Resilient to Age-Structural Change and Longevity: Translating Academic Evidence into Policy (2016) (0)
- Making the UK more Resilient to Age-Structural Change and Longevity: Translating Academic Evidence into Policy (2016) (0)
- Rural settlement within the hinterland of conurbations : case studies from Staffordshire and Hampshire (1985) (0)
- Editorial: Inequalities in Access to Education: Failing to Provide Skills-Building and Empowerment to Girls (2012) (0)
- Longevity, Politics and Science – Moving from the Outcomes to Understanding the Process (2017) (0)
- The Jerusalem Declaration on Ageing 2020 to share in English, Arabic and Hebrew (2021) (0)
- The Reformation of Age and Ageing (2017) (0)
- The Lengthening of Life: The Importance of Context and Life Course (2018) (0)
- Demographic and Environmental Transitions (2014) (0)
- The Qualitative Stage of Building Bayesian Belief Networks in a Focus Group Setting: Decision-Making under Uncertainty among Vietnamese Rice Farmers (2021) (0)
- 8. Population pyramids and projections (2018) (0)
- 6. The demographic transition—centrepiece of demography (2018) (0)
- 3. The fathers of demographic thought (2018) (0)
- Acute and Chronic Pain Mechanisms (2007) (0)
- Editorial: Integrating age structural change into global policy (2022) (0)
- Rural settlement within the hinterland of conurbations (1985) (0)
- The Opportunity for “Design” to Influence the Ageing Process Itself (2013) (0)
- Analysing and debating the complex and contested questions raised by 21st century population change (2015) (0)
- 8 SARAH HARPER ON THE POPULATION CHALLENGE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (2016) (0)
- The Jerusalem Declaration on Ageing 2020 to share in English, Arabic and Hebrew (2021) (0)
- CARE CAMPUS. A EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM MODEL TO SUPPORT FORMAL AND INFORMAL CAREGIVING TRAINING (2018) (0)
- 5. The drivers (2018) (0)
- Chapter accepted for publication in: Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies: Active Ageing Index and its Potential (2016) (0)
- 1. Demography is destiny … or not (2018) (0)
- 9. Sub-disciplines arise (2018) (0)
- 4. The entrance of statistics and mathematical models (2018) (0)
- Addressing Longevity, Life Expectancy and Health Life Expectancy (2015) (0)
- Ageing Societies are a Triumph (2023) (0)
- Book Review- Being Human, Being Migrant: Senses of Self and Well-Being, Edited by Anne Sigfrid Grønseth. Berghahn Books 2013, £75.00 Hardcover, £17.50 Paperback. ISBN 978–1–78,238-045-0 (2016) (0)
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