Age Immaterial (blog)
ageing, ageism and feature films (blog)
New Dynamics of Ageing Programme
Look at Me! Images of Women & Ageing Project (more details)
Aging Studies
Graduate School Ageing: Cultural Concepts and Practical Realisations
Women Like That
Ageing, Body and Society Study Group
MeCCSA Women's Media Studies Network
Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI)
Centre of Research on Ageing and Gender (CRAG, UK)
Growing Old for Real: Women, Ageing and Identity
University of the Third Age
Age UK
United Nations - Ageing Resources
BBC's Age Rage Project
BBC Ageism Videos
The Old Woman's Project
Late-Life Creativity and the ‘New Old Age’ Project
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Look at Me! Images of Women & Ageing Project
Commonly characterised by their invisibility, where we do we see older women in the media they are often negatively stereotyped, the butt of humour or the target of anti-ageing interventions. The Look at Me! project at the University of Sheffield explored how older women feel about their representation and, employing innovative participatory visual approaches, captured complex responses to ageing. Alternative images, produced by participants using fine art, sculpture, photography and phototherapeutic techniques and presented in exhibitions across Sheffield, can be viewed on the project website: http://www.representing-ageing.com/. Taking part in the project has had a lasting impact on some women’s perceptions of their own ageing bodies while feedback from visitors to the exhibition showed a clear majority wishing to see more images of older people in public places.
The Look at Me! Project kindly authorised the image of Jude Grundy (in collaboration with Sue Hale) to be reproduced on the WAM main page.
“I wanted to try to recreate… that ability to play like a child.”
(Jude Grundy in collaboration with Sue Hale - Copyright ©2010 Representing Ageing. Look At Me. University Of Sheffield)
