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Nuffield Connecting Pensions, Health, and Care Project“CONNECTing Pensions, Health and Care” is a Nuffield Foundation-funded project aimed at understanding and improving support for living well in later years.
Why It Matters:This project will guide future research on making old-age support sustainable amid demographic and socio-economic challenges, helping younger generations prepare for the future. |
 | Olena Nizalova Principal Investigator, Associate Professor (Reader) of Health Economics, PSSRU, University of Kent “Since the graduate school I have been interested in the interdependence between individual health, labour market choices and outcomes, family dynamics and population ageing. I have done research on various aspects of that interdependence, and at some point it became obvious to me that the old-age support systems are doomed to go from crisis to crisis as long as they are considered as separate entities. I am passionate about finding ways of ensuring good life in old age in a manner that is affordable individually and for the society.” |
 | Miguel Leon-Ledesma Investigator, Professor of Economics, University of Exeter and CEPR “I am a macroeconomist with wide ranging interests that include the role of demographic factors in shaping long-run phenomena such as productivity, wealth distribution, and social mobility. I am part of WG3, which is building tools based on Overlapping Generations models to model long term elderly care and how it interacts with healthcare. These tools are fundamental to understand how different changes in policies have different distributional effects across generations." |
 | Marek Grzes Investigator, Senior Lecturer in Computing, University of Kent “I am interested in seeing how computers and mathematical equations can improve lives for people, and for this reason I dedicate most of my research time to investigate methods for data analysis. The PI of this project came up with a challenging, yet important idea, to study the interdependence between old age support systems and labour marker choices. I am delighted to be part of her team, and I am committed to support them in this endeavour.” |
 | Molly Lambourn Project Officer, University of Kent “I am passionate about supporting research projects and I am interested in applying my experience as a creative practitioner to health research dissemination.” |
Yasmine Talbi Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Economics, University of Kent “I’m quite interested in the assessment and mitigation of intra and inter-generational inequalities and the consequences of inequality on health and wellbeing. I am also keen to develop knowledge about old-age support systems and the methods to improve their sustainability in light of dynamic interdependence and trade-offs.” |
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 | Uchenna Efobi Postdoctoral Research Associate, PSSRU, University of Kent “I discovered my "Chi" after my PhD, when I became fascinated with questions about human capital formation, particularly for vulnerable populations. This passion drove my research agenda in topics related to health, education, vulnerability, and now, the aging population. My research has explored various aspects of this intersectionality, leading me to realize that support systems for vulnerable groups are mostly interconnected. This project offers me another opportunity to understand such interconnectedness within the UK welfare system, aiming to enhance the wellbeing of the aging population." |
 | Lavinia Mitton Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, School of Social Sciences, University of Kent “I am tackling the complex challenge of designing sustainable models to support living well in later years—a difficult problem because we can’t predict the future, and no one knows how long they are going to live! I’m a social researcher with over 20 years of experience and an academic background in evidence-based social policy. My work has centred on how societies provide for welfare and well-being through resource redistribution by taxes and welfare benefits. In this project, I am applying my expertise to analyse the intricate system of retirement funding, healthcare, and long-term care. I am leading the development and implementation of a public opinion survey and focus groups, which are critical for gathering stakeholders’ perspectives to shape solutions that are both creative and realistic" |
 | Sabina Hulbert Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent “As a social psychologist with an interest in social inequalities, this project offers me the unique opportunity to be part of a very innovative way of looking at lived experiences and investigate complex relationships between different support systems available to people in older age. Having previously focused on working with adolescents and their health behaviour and wellbeing, I bring in a completely different perspective, while still having the experience to think in terms of comprehensive ecological theoretical models. I have over 25 years experience in designing surveys in ways that adapt to the needs of different audiences and I have an in depth understanding of quantitative measurement tools." |
Upcoming events |
| TBC |
Past events |
| Advisory Board meeting 2: 7 November 2024 The Connecting Pensions, Health and Care team met for their second meeting with the Advisory Board online. Stakeholder mapping workshop: TBC 2025 |
| Citizens Advisory Board meeting 2: 4 November 2024 The Connecting Pensions, Health and Care team took the opportunity to engage with our brilliant patient and public advisors to receive feedback on our economic model, surveying tools and dissemination plan. |
| bOing!: Drawing event: August 2024 The Connecting Pensions Health and Care team collaborated with Fine Artist Molly Lambourn to deliver a weekend of drawing activity. Participants aged 2-80 years old contributed to our public artwork, a community tea-set which considered what it meant to live well in old age. Participants drew and wrote what this meant to them. We discovered motifs of nature, seaside and animals alongside the considerations of spending time with family.  |
| Kick Off meeting 26 January 2024 The Nuffield Connecting Pensions, Health and Care team launched their project at the Nuffield Offices in London in January. Olena Nizalova and the team introduced their project, key goals and questions to their Advisory Board and Citizens Advisory Group. We were pleased to announce our ambitions for the project and to receive constructive feedback from industry and academic experts from private, public and charity sectors. |
Press releases |
| Connecting pensions, health and care - £930,000 award for research on old-age support systems - News Centre - University of Kent |
| Connecting pensions, health and care - Nuffield Foundation |
| Connecting pensions, health and care – £930,000 award for research on old-age support systems | PSSRU |
| Connecting pensions, health and care: new research for an ageing population - Nuffield Foundation |
| Funding for research into living well in later life - Nuffield Foundation |
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