Professor Karen West

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Biography

I joined the School for Policy Studies from Aston University, where I was head of the Sociology and Policy department and founder member of the Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing. I am also a Visiting Professor at Örebro University in Sweden, where I teach and advise on the interdisciplinary postgraduate research programme on ‘Successful Ageing'.   

I have a broad background in public policy, social policy and public management and governance, but the focus of my work for about the last twelve years has been on ageing.  I have carried out numerous research projects on this general theme ...

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Recent publications

• Roleston, C, West, K & Shaw, R, 2019, ‘Do the Welsh have it? Evaluating a bereavement support service supporting people bereaved by dementia’. Bereavement Care.
• West, K & Arrigoitia, MF, 2019, ‘Interdependence, commitment, learning and love. The case of the UK’s first older women’s co-housing community’. Ageing and Society.

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