SIA (Social Inequalities in Ageing) network

The SIA (Social Inequalities in Ageing)-network is a collaboration between leading ageing researchers in the Nordic countries and will have a strong focus on the involvement of junior researchers, social aspects of ageing and inequalities. A prime aim is capacity building of social ageing research within the Nordic countries.

A second aim is to strengthen Nordic research collaborations and comparative multidisciplinary research within the field.

We build on a larger Nordic research programme which has involved the leading researchers within the network but also many PhD-students and postdocs.

We have extensive experience of arranging workshops in which junior researchers from all the Nordic countries have interacted with senior researchers, and most importantly been given the opportunity to communicate, exchange ideas and to start collaborations.

We now aim to continue this capacity building approach in the form of a network.Research fields that will be explored, all with a focus on older persons, are: trends in health and mortality inequality, life course influences on living conditions and health, the organization and reforms within health and long-term care and their influences on inequality.

We will also encourage comparative studies between the Nordic countries as well as studies on relatively unexplored topics such as health and living conditions in the growing population group of older migrants and the consequences of the pandemic on social inequality among older persons.

The network will arrange yearly junior and senior workshops, send out newsletters, and have a continuously updated webpage to achieve these goals.