Biography: Kieran Walsh is Professor of Ageing amp; Public - No restriction Policy and Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG), University of Galway. Kieran has extensive experience in ageing and Public - No restriction policy and interdisciplinary social gerontology research and has published extensively within the field of ageing. Before taking up the role of Director of the ICSG, he served as Project Director of Project Lifecourse within the Institute for Lifecourse and Society, a 1.5 euro million three-year programme of work dedicated to capturing the subjective realities of children and youth, older people and people with disabilities in their neighbourhoods and communities. With a track record of working closely with senior levels of Public - No restriction policy and professional practice, Kieran is focused on translating research into real-world impact and integrating this experience in the design of impactful research and teaching programmes. He has played a leading role in the development of international multi-site and interdisciplinary research studies. Kierans research interests and expertise focus on: social exclusion in later life; the relative nature of disadvantage in cross-national contexts; place and life-course transitions; and informal and formal infrastructures of care. Kieran has Chaired the European COST Action CA15122 on Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion (ROSEnet a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http:www.rosenetcost.comwww.rosenetcost.com ), which represented over 180 members from 41 different countries. With objectives that address critical gaps in research, policy, and international interdisciplinary research capacity, ROSEnet aimed to overcome fragmentation in conceptual innovation on old-age exclusion across the life course, in order to address the research-policy disconnect and tackle social exclusion amongst older people. Kieran is currently Scientific Coordinator of the MSCA HOMeAGE doctoral training programme (from 2023)a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:homeage-dn.euhttps:homeage-dn.eu , where heleads on the development of a network wide training programme for 12 doctoral researchers (DRs) based in nine European countries and representing a group of 11 different nationalities, with nine individuals from low- and middle-income contexts.

Social exclusion and social inequalities in later life. Public - No restriction policy as a mediator of old-age disadvantage. Health care policy, care infrastructures and care relationships. Older adult environmental relationships (institutional, rural, urbanisation). Influence of structural forces and institutional policy life course. Place and life-course transitions and trajectories. Intersecting ageing and migration (internal and external) patterns.

Ageing and Public - No restriction policy Social exclusion and inequality Environmental gerontology Research methods Health system and health policy