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APL PhD informs Commission for Rural Communities report

A Commission for Rural Communities report on the social isolation of older people in the countryside, informed by a paper by Dr Elizabeth Brooks, a Research Associate in the School, was published on September 9th 2012. Liz’s paper, was based on research for her 2009 PhD supervised by Rose Gilroy and Jane Midgley.

An article about the report, one of the last to be published by the Commission before its 2013 abolition, has also featured in the Telegraph.

published on: 14th November 2012