Peter McDonald appointed Deputy Director of an ARC Centre of Excellence for Population Ageing Research

Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSDRI) Director, Professor Peter McDonald, has been appointed as the Deputy Director for the UNSW-led Population Ageing Research Centre for Excellence.

The Centre aims to execute world class basic and applied research to transform our capacity to respond to the economic and social challenges of demographic change, and to changes in individual longevity and cognitive and motor capacity. It will combine in-house expertise with leading researchers globally in initiatives to generate new outcome-oriented approaches to studying the population ageing process and its implications. Its research will inform innovative policy formulation and product and market development, and train a new generation of researchers into population ageing with an enriched appreciation of the cross-disciplinary dimensions of population ageing research.

The Centre for Population Ageing Research brings together government, industry and researchers including from ADSRI to address one of the major social challenges of the 21st century. It will establish Australia as a world leader in the field of population ageing research through a unique combination of high level, cross-disciplinary expertise drawn from Economics, Psychology, Sociology, Epidemiology, Actuarial Science, and Demography. Drawing on strong international networks and powerful industry alliances, it will produce research that will transform thinking about population ageing, inform private and public sector policy and yield outcomes that improve the well-being of the aged and their social and economic environment.

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