Global Challenges Academy

Staff Profile

Professor Rose Gilroy

Professor of Ageing, Policy & Planning

Background

Introduction

My work explores how home and neighbourhood supports quality of life in later life. As an academic situated in Planning I am interested in the transactional relationship between people and their place that embraces how people individually and collectively may influence their environments. My work frequently uses an everyday life framework to explore strategies for survival or flourishing. I have considerable research experience in qualitative and participatory methods: interviews, focus groups, photo elicitation and visioning. I am committed to change and much of my work is action oriented. I am the founder of the Future Homes Alliance Community Interest Company that will be building inter generational dwellings on the Helix site. I welcome opportunities to work with industry such as in KTP collaborations

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Roles and Responsibilities

I have held a number of positions of responsibility in the School including Degree Programme Director of the Undergraduate Planning Programme; Director of Teaching and Learning; Director of Planning, Deputy Head of School and most recently Director of Engagement. I have been a member of the School Management Team for more than fifteen years. Beyond the school I have been a member of Senate twice; served on Faculty Promotions Committee; a member of Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee; and UTLC Panel member .  

In 2016 I brought together a quadruple helix working group of key Tyneside actors from Newcastle City Council, academia, third and community sectors; business and industry. Together we have developed new modes of housing that will make responses to an ageing population and deep green responses to sustainability with digital innovation informing both agendas. In April 2018 we became the Future Homes Alliance registered at Companies House as a Community Interest Company. We have won funding from Homes England ; from Newcastle University and Newcastle Building Society.

Beyond the University I am chair of Newcastle's Age Friendly City working group and a member of the British Society of Gerontology's Special Interest Group on Transport and Mobility; I am a trustee for Dunhill Medical Trust- the only age focused grant giving body.

Qualifications

I have a BA from Nottingham University and a MA by research from Exeter University. I have the Higher Education Teaching Qualification from Newcastle University.

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing 

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (by invitation)

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences- nominated by BSG

Memberships

British Gerontology Society

International Society of Quality of Life Studies

Languages

Basic French

Informal Interests

I love to read - my idea of hell is having nothing to read. I love cinema, live music, travelling to new places and occasionally can be spotted rambling, bird watching and fishing. 

Research

Research Interests

My research explores the impact of the ageing population, particularly in relation to planning and housing. My concerns embrace the home and the lines of attachment that radiate from it into neighbourhood, city, and region. In the wider arena I explore how place may support everyday life in later life. As a planner I am interested in the transactional relationship between people and their environment that embraces how people individually and collectively may influence their environments.

My research on older people has taken me from the north east of England to China, Japan and India. I am interested in researching with industry to create change thrugh Knowledge Transfer Partrenships

 Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome applications from potential doctoral candidates who are interested in older people's (non medical) issues specifically perceptions of quality of life; experiences of housing and neighbourhood; activism in older age.

Currently Isaac Ayamba exploring housing affordability in Cambridge

Di Yang: `Energy use and comfort Analysis in Rural Chinese Dwellings: a Case Study of Low-income Older Populations in Shandong`, 



Teaching

I lead two UG modules : A first year module on Social Worlds that explores current societal challenges and a stage 2 option that unpacks UK Housing Policy and Practice. i contrbute to a stage 2 option  Understanding cties, a stage 3 module on Contemporary Planning Issues. and a stage 3 module on Chinese Culture 





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