Loneliness in the Digital Age

My name is Dr Kellie Payne and I am the Learning and Research Manager at the Campaign to End Loneliness. We are a network of organisations and people that want to do more about the issue of loneliness in older age in the UK. We were launched in 2011 and our work is overseen by five partner organisations: Age UK Oxfordshire, Independent Age, Manchester City Council, the Royal Voluntary Service and Sense. We have over 1000 organisation supporters who make…

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In an attempt to illustrate the various forms of loneliness experienced by people at different stages of their life trajectory and within different life circumstances, ‘The Age of Loneliness’ was broadcasted, on 7th of January, on BBC 1[1]. A striking element of this programme was that loneliness, as articulated in the deeply touching narratives of these people – especially of the elderly and those you had lost a partner – often constituted a fear that exceeded the fear of death…

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On 15 and 16 June the LIDA team met at Loughborough University for the third of our extended planning and reporting meetings (previously we met in Bath in September last year and then in Exeter in January this year). It was a time to both catch-up on the work so far that has been undertaken by the team at Bath, led by Julie Barnett, and also to plan in detail the next phase of activity. The good news is that…

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The issue of engaging the migrant worker communities was also a main item for discussion for our first Programme Advisory Board, which also met on 15th June at Loughborough. The PAB is a collection of critical friends (academics and other stakeholders) who come together formally once a year (although we’re also in touch with them more regularly, of course, on an individual basis) to give the project strategic advice and to help us maximize the impacts of the work through…

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slot indosat Four of the LiDA team – Mike Wilson, Shaun Lawson, John Vines and Dina Vasileiou – attended the Research Hub event organised by the Campaign to End Loneliness* on 23 January 2015 in London. The researchers had the opportunity to hear some of the latest research on loneliness conducted within UK academic institutions and the public sector and to meet and discuss with other leading researchers in the field. The LiDA team took this event as an opportunity to introduce the…

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