Ongoing Projects
Explore our ongoing research
Our ongoing research explores emerging questions around ageing, digital inclusion, technology and participation. These projects are developing new evidence and insights to better understand older adults’ experiences and inform more inclusive services, systems and communities.
Empowering Senior Voices Program
Connecting lived experience with better places, services and decisions
A participatory research approach that enables older adults to turn lived experience into evidence and work with communities and decision-makers to inform decisions, shape practical action and support continued participation.
Social Connection & Participation
Co-design & Engagement
Policy & Practice
Tinkering, Teaching, and Taking Responsibility
How older adults are collectively learning, questioning and shaping AI
Explores how older adults learn about generative AI together through experimentation, peer learning and collective problem-solving, challenging assumptions that later-life AI education is simply about catching up on digital skills.
Older Adults in Smart Living Environments
Understanding when digital services and technologies don't fit people's everyday lives
This research explores what happens when digital services and technologies do not fit an older person's needs, resources or circumstances, and how the actors whose decisions and practices shape these services and technologies could respond.
Supporting Digital Life
Emotional work, care and autonomy in family technology support
Explores the often-invisible emotional work involved when family members and trusted supporters help older adults navigate digital life, and how that support can build confidence or create dependence and frustration.
