Autor/-in: Sophie Yarker

Sophie Yarker is based in the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing at The University of Manchester. She has an academic background in Sociology and Human Geography with a PhD in the latter from Newcastle University. From 2021 she has been working on the 'Population Ageing and Urbanisation' project funded by the Leverhulme Trust which is an interdisciplinary and cross-national comparative research project into ageing in place in cities. Sophie is also Deputy Director of the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group.