UKAN ran from February 2022 for 3 years, funded by UKRI on behalf of the BBSRC and MRC. It aimed to promote research to address health inequalities, improve health resilience, and increase health and quality of life in older age. Our network members included ageing researchers spanning multiple academic disciplines as well as other stakeholders including health care practitioners, industry and biotech, policy makers, funders, 3rd sector and the public.
The networks were set up to:
- build UK capacity in healthy ageing research
- facilitate new collaborations (within the UK and with international partners)
- stimulate new research
- promote knowledge exchange of ageing research
The networks held workshops, symposia and early career researcher activities, developed information and training materials and provided direct support of research through pump priming funds.
Although the funding for UKAN has expired, and our collaborative coordinated projects are concluded, each of the networks have agreed to maintain pages on this site – either static pages, as a retrospective showcase of the work that was conducted or, where further funding has been achieved, active pages that continue to share news, events and other updates.
The UKAN mailing list has now closed, but you can visit individual Network pages and click to join their mailing lists, where the option is available. For other ways to stay up to date please visit our Events Calendar – which is a hub for industry-aligned events as well as those belonging to our networks, and you can select an entry and then add it to your own calendar.
