Gerontology & Geriatric Research

Victor C

Biography

Victor C is a Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University London. My background is in nursing and I completed my PhD in Sociology entitled Embodying active ageing: health, bodies and emotions in later life at the University of Warwick. I am currently co-investigator on three funded research projects and Principal Investigator on the research project ‘Photographing Everyday Life: Ageing, Lived Experiences, Time and Space’ (ESRC First Grants scheme). This project brings together my interests in visual research, embodiment, and everyday life

Research Interest

principal research interests are focussed around understanding the social context of ageing and later life. More specifically I have specialist interests around loneliness and social isolation; care and caring; growing old amongst minority communities; physical activity, exercise and later life and the use of secondary data analysis in gerontological research.  I also am active in the broad areas of service evaluation, health inequalities and public health aspects of old age and population ageing, especially in the developing world.