Research Committee 11 Sociology of Aging of the International Sociological AssociationRC11 Vice-Presidents
RC11 Vice-President - Anne Martin-Matthews (Canada)
Anne Martin-Matthews is the Scientific Director of the national Institute of Aging of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from McMaster University. Her publications include a recent book (with Judith Phillips) on Aging and Caring at the Intersection of Work and Home Life: Blurring the Boundaries, a book on Widowhood in Later Life, three edited volumes (on methodological diversity, bridging policy and research on aging, and Canadian gerontology in international context) as special issues of the Canadian Journal on Aging, and over 125 papers on aging in a family context, social support, caregiving, health, gender and aging, work - family balance, and aging in rural environments.
She served as Editor-in-Chief (1996-2000) of the Canadian Journal on Aging. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Institute of Aging/ Institut du vieillissement
Canadian Institutes of Health Research/ Instituts de recherche en santée du Can-ada
and Professor/ et professeure
Department of Sociology
The University of British Columbia
6303 N.W. Marine Drive, Rm 126
Vancouver, B.C. Canada
V6T 1Z1
Phone/Tel.: 604-822-9170
Fax: 604-822-9304
Email/courriel: amm@interchange.ubc.ca
RC11 Vice-President - Lars Andersson (Sweden)
Lars Andersson is Professor of Social Gerontology at NISAL (National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life), Linköping University, Sweden, He is President of the Swedish Gerontological Society, Past president of the Nordic Gerontological Federation, Fellow, The Gerontological Society of America, and Appointed member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Ageing and Health. His books include Ålderism [Ageism] (2008), and the edited volumes Cultural Gerontology (2002) and Socialgerontologi [Social Gerontology] (2001). He has contributed chapters in several books, published extensively in scholary journals and is the Editor of the online journal ”International Journal of Ageing and Later Life” (IJAL) (www.ep.liu.se/ej/ijal/).
Lars first attended an ISA World Congress in 1978 in Uppsala and has been an Executive Member of RC 11 since 1991 and Vice President, 1994-2002. He was the organiser of the RC-11 inter-congress meeting on ‘Cross-national research in gerontology’, the Stockholm ’92 meeing, June 1992.
NISAL
Linköping University
S-601 74 Norrköping
Sweden
Tel.: +46 11 363406
Email: Lars.Andersson@isv.liu.se