A new grant has been awarded to Centre researchers Michelle Vhudzijena, Kyu Park, Michael Sherris and Kaarin Anstey in the latest round of the CEPAR Multidisciplinary Collaboration Funding Scheme, for their research project on 'Socio-economic Inequalities in Life Expectancy and Functional Disability amongst Older Australians and Americans'.
Projects funded in past years examined topics such as evaluating income sources and wellbeing of retirees; investigating the impact of work design on enhancing older employees’ cognitive functioning in the future of work; understanding the length of stay and health trajectory of older Australians in permanent residential care; cross-cultural social determinants of ageism among young adults; mental health intervention in non-native speaking aged care recipients; age discrimination and trends in the Australian workforce; early-life-events and their influence on expectations of ageing in later life; the interplay between life events and shared financial decision-making among older adults and their household decision partners; and projections of dementia in populations with special needs.
The annual grants of up to $10,000 per project aim to provide seed funding for research and activities which enhance multidisciplinary collaboration across and within CEPAR’s four research streams.
Applications are assessed on their research quality, multidisciplinarity, research budget, potential for benefit and the quality of the research team and their potential to form a lasting collaboration. A key requirement is that the projects are led by a CEPAR early- to mid-career researcher.
A full listing of projects funded through the Scheme can be found below.
2024 Grants
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Leader: Michelle Vhudzijena (UNSW Sydney)
Team: Kyu Park (UNSW Sydney) Michael Sherris (UNSW Sydney) Kaarin Anstey (UNSW Sydney) |
Socio-economic Inequalities in Life Expectancy and Functional Disability amongst Older Australians and Americans |
2023 Grants
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Leader: Jane Fry (University of Melbourne)
Team: Hazel Bateman (UNSW Sydney) Jeromey Temple (University of Melbourne)
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Income Sources and Wellbeing of Retirees |
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Leader: Fangfang Zhang (Curtin University)
Team: Dr Yvonne Leung (UNSW Sydney) Professor Sharon Parker (Curtin University) Scientia Professor Kaarin Anstey (UNSW Sydney) Dr Hamidul Huque (UNSW Sydney) |
Enhancing Older Employees’ Cognitive Functioning in the Future of Work: Investigating the Impact of Work Design |
2022 Grants
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Leader: Bei Lu (UNSW Sydney) Team: Kaarin Anstey (UNSW Sydney) Yuchen Xie (UNSW Sydney) |
Mental Health Intervention in Non-Native Speaking Aged Care Recipients |
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Leader: Gaoyun (Sophie) Yan (UNSW Sydney) Team: Mengyi Xu (Purdue University) Michael Sherris (UNSW Sydney) |
Understanding the Length of Stay and Health Trajectory of Older Australians in Permanent Residential Care
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Leader: Yvonne Leung (UNSW Sydney) Team: Natasha Ginnivan (UNSW Sydney) Brooke Brady (UNSW Sydney) Kaarin Anstey (UNSW Sydney) Po Ling Chen (University of Nottingham) Eun Hee Lee (University of Nottingham) Kimberley Man Min Xi (University of Nottingham) |
Social Determinants of Ageism Among Young Adults: A Cross-Cultural Investigation |
2021 Grants
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Leader: Daniela Andrei (Curtin University) Team: Gaoyun (Sophie) Yan (UNSW Sydney) |
Understanding the Drivers and Consequences of Age Discrimination Trends in the Australian Workforce |
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Leader: Natasha Ginnivan (UNSW Sydney) Team: Kaarin Anstey (UNSW, NeuRA) Myra Hamilton (University of Sydney) Saman Khalatbari-Soltani (University of Sydney) Craig Sinclair (UNSW Sydney) |
Do Early-Life-Events Influence Expectations of Ageing in Later Life? |
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Leader: Saman Khalatbari-Soltani (University of Sydney) Team: Kaarin Anstey (UNSW Sydney) Fiona Blyth (University of Sydney) Vasi Naganathan (University of Sydney) Ruth Peters (NeuRA) Ying Xu (NeuRA) |
Blood Pressure, Retinal Microvascular Abnormalities and Dementia and Epilepsy: Considering Socioeconomic Position |
2020 Grants
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Leader: Inka Eberhardt (UNSW Sydney) Team: Brooke Brady (UNSW Sydney) Craig Sinclair (UNSW Sydney) |
The Interplay between Life Events and Shared Financial Decision-Making among Older Adults and their Household Decision Partners: Longitudinal Evidence from Australia and The Netherlands |
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Leader: Bei Lu (UNSW Sydney) Team: Gigi Petery (Curtin University) |
A Progressive Pension Benefit Design |
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Leader: Jeromey Temple (University of Melbourne) Team: Kaarin Anstey (UNSW Sydney, NeuRA) Tom Wilson (University of Melbourne) |
Projections of Dementia in Populations with Special Needs |