Andreas Hoff, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Andreas Hoff (MSc Sociology, Leipzig University; PhD Social Policy, London School of Economics) is Professor of Social Gerontology at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Previously, he was Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford, directing the Research Programme on “Intergenerational Relations, Families and Communities”. His research has focused on various aspects of intergenerational relations in the family and the wider community, on family care and home care, as well as on population ageing and ageing societies in Central and Eastern Europe. Accordingly, Andreas was cocoordinating the “Eastern-European Ageing Societies in Transition” (EAST) Research Network at Oxford. Andreas joined RC11 in 2002 and served on the RC11 Executive Board as Newsletter Editor 2002-2006 and 2006-2010. He was member of the RC11 Scientific Programme Committee organizing the RC11 Inter-congress conference at Surrey, UK, in 2004 and Chair of the RC11 Scientific Programme Committee for the XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology in Durban, South Africa, in 2006 and the First ISA World Forum in Barcelona, Spain, in 2008. Professor Hoff serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL) and of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships (JIR). He published 5 books and 50 articles, chapters and reports. His latest publications include an edited volume on “Population Ageing in Central and Eastern Europe” (Ashgate, in press), a tri-lingual compendium on intergenerational relations (with K. Lüscher, L. Liegle, A. Lange, M. Stoffel, G. Viry & E. Widmer) published by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, a chapter on grandparenting in The Sage Family Health Encyclopedia (in press), and articles on "Migrant home care workers" in IJAL 5(2) (with Susan Feldman and Lucy Vidovicova) and "Long-term consequences of studying intergenerational relations for research and practice" in JIR 9(1).

Email: ahoff@hs-zigr.de

Susan Feldman, Monash University, Australia

Dr. Susan Feldman is a Professor and the Director of the Healthy Ageing Research Unit at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is an expert in the study of older community dwelling people and their ageing experience. In her work as a social gerontologist role she has undertaken extensive research over the past 20 years, her research interests including the psychosocial health and wellbeing of community dwelling women and older people from Culturallyand Linguistically Diverse Communities. Dr. Feldman is also involved in interdisciplinary research that explores the relationships between generations. She has a special interest in the experience of widowhood for women and the impact of this experience on their health and wellbeing. Dr. Feldman is also the Co-Chair of the Intergenerational Committee on Intergenerational Programmes having been a general committee member for 8 years. Dr. Feldman has extensive experience of and is actively involved in developing innovative strategies for translating research findings and health promotion messages for the general community. She works closely with a range of community groups, peak bodies and government to ensure that research findings are integrated into policy and practice. One particular strategy for translation of research into community based information and in particular relevant to the older population, is through the use of community based theatre. She is on the editorial board of an international journal and is a regular reviewer for a range of journals within the ageing and sociology fields as well as an examiner for higher research degrees and funding applications. Her publications include numerous journal articles and five edited book collections: The Art of Ageing Well and the Art of Caring for Older Adults, Baywood Press 2007, A Certain Age: Women Growing Older, 1999 Allen & Unwin, Something that Happens to Other People 1996 Random House, and Family Violence: Everybody’s Business, Somebody’s Life. 1991, Federation Press.

Email: susan.feldman@monash.edu.au