Insight Series: Building partnership across disciplines

In this Insight Series session, Gemma will share her experience of working across disciplines to develop a programme of impactful and exciting research on human ageing.

Gemma is based at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Queen's University Belfast, a hub for open-minded and creative scholars.

Her team have devised projects that use material culture to explore longevity, fiction to explore dementia, and film to excavate old eccentrics in British film.

Gemma also works with medics and pharmacists to explore medicine use, and on the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

About our speaker

Dr Gemma Carney is a social and cultural gerontologist who works across disciplines to explore human ageing. She has taken a leading role in developing innovative approaches to understanding ageing from inter and transdisciplinary perspectives. In 2024, she founded Queen's on Ageing - a cross-Faculty initiative of over 60 leading researchers of ageing at Queen's University Belfast. Her most successful collaborations to date have been with humanities scholars in history, film studies, linguistics and drama and theatre. Her 2020 book Critical Questions for Ageing Societies (with Paul Nash, USC) was nominated for the Richard Kalish prize for innovative research in ageing.