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Athina Vlachantoni

Professor of Gerontology and Social Policy, University of Southampton

I joined the Centre for Research on Ageing in 2008 as a lecturer in gerontology, following a year as lecturer in social policy in the Division of Sociology & Social Policy of the University of Southampton. Before that, I completed a PhD in social policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MSc Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford (Wolfson College) and a BA Social Policy and Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Between 2002 and 2004, I worked as a research officer at the Oxford Institute of Ageing at the University of Oxford. Between 2003 and 2004 I was a college tutor in politics at New College, Oxford, and between 2004 and 2007 I worked as an occasional research assistant and as a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Social Policy of the LSE. I am a member of the Social Policy Association and the British Society of Gerontology, and a member of the Council for the British Society of Population Studies. I am also a member of the ESRC Peer Review College, Deputy Editor of Ageing & Society, and Deputy Director (Impact and Collaboration) in the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership.