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Liam Foster

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[HTML][HTML] Active ageing, pensions and retirement in the UK

L Foster - Journal of population ageing, 2018 - Springer
The ageing population has led to increasing concerns about pensions and their future
sustainability. Much of the dominant policy discourse around ageing and pension provision over …

Gender and active ageing in Europe

L Foster, A Walker - European Journal of Ageing, 2013 - Springer
Increasing longevity in Europe should be a cause for celebration. However, demographic
ageing creates challenges. Over the last 10 years the leading policy response to these …

Active and successful aging: A European policy perspective

L Foster, A Walker - The gerontologist, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Over the past two decades, “active aging” has emerged in Europe as the foremost policy
response to the challenges of population aging. This article examines the concept of active …

Young people and attitudes towards pension planning

L Foster - Social Policy and Society, 2017 - cambridge.org
There has been much concern about people not saving enough for retirement in the UK and
how to encourage further saving. This has led to pension policy developments, including …

[BOOK][B] Bryman's social research methods

T Clark, L Foster, A Bryman, L Sloan - 2021 - books.google.com
Clear, comprehensive, and trusted, Bryman's Social Research Methods has guided over a
quarter of a million students through their research methods course and student research …

'I might not live that long!'A study of young women's pension planning in the UK

L Foster - Social Policy & Administration, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
There has been considerable concern about levels of pension saving especially given
increases in longevity and rising pension deficits. In particular, the prospects of many future …

Towards a new political economy of pensions? The implications for women

L Foster - Critical Social Policy, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
This article employs a political economy approach to assess the changing nature of women’s
pension provision. Initially it provides an overview of the current context showing that many …

[HTML][HTML] Active ageing across the life course: towards a comprehensive approach to prevention

L Foster, A Walker - BioMed Research International, 2021 - hindawi.com
“Active ageing” has become the leading scientific and policy conceptualization of a later life
over the past two decades in the European Union (EU). It has been used as a key strategy …

'I'm not a natural mathematician' Inquiry-based learning, constructive alignment and introductory quantitative social science

T Clark, L Foster - Teaching Public Administration, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
There is continuing concern about the paucity of social science graduates who have the
quantitative skills required by academia and industry. Not only do students often lack the …

Active ageing: Rhetoric, theory and practice

A Walker, L Foster - The making of ageing policy, 2013 - elgaronline.com
Although population changes in European countries have not been uniform, in general falling
death rates across the European Union (EU) during the last century have led to increased …