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Work Package 1 User Engagement
Expert Panel July 2009
The expert panel held in July this year was avery successful event, with 14 participants
attending. The purpose of this panel was to
introduce the project to occupational health
experts, organisational representatives and
trade union representatives to gain their
feedback and inform the research process.
User Engagement Panel September
2009
The user engagement panel held in
September proved a further success, with 17
participants attending. The panel introduced
the project to a group of older workers froma wide range of industrial sectors. Their
views and feedback will further inform the
research project.
The two panels introduced the groups to the
Working Late project, including the researchteam and the projects aims. The breakout
discussion groups considered our planned
health interventions involved in Work
Package 3. There were further discussions
on the journey to work, which will be
incorporated in Work Package 2. The
discussions generated rich and varied data
which we are currently analysing.
Strategies to enhance productive and healthy environments for the older
workforce
Research Project Update 2
Working Late is a four year collaborative research project addressing practice and policy
issues associated with later life working. The project is funded by the New Dynamics of
Ageing (NDA) Programme, which is the largest and most ambitious research programme on
ageing ever mounted in the UK. Working Late aims to develop interventions and design
solutions to promote health and quality of working life.
This project newsletter includes a summary of developments within the project over the past
six months.
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New Staff
We are pleased to
introduce a new member
of staff, Miss Lois Kerr,
a research assistant withinthe Working Late project.
Lois commenced her post
at the beginning of
September and will be
primarily working on
Work Package 1. Lois will be organising
future user engagement panels, a steering
group meeting and a full collaborative
research project meeting involving all
research partners in 2010.
Work Package 2
The Journey to Work
As part of the expert and user panels, two
forum discussions have been held so far,
during which older workers and employer
representatives explored the key influence
travelling to work has on employment.
During the course of these, a number ofcase-studies came to light, which have
helped to highlight the key issues.
These will inform the next stages of thework, during which a questionnaire will be
distributed, in order to gauge the likely scale
of the problem, and to identify the factors
that most commonly lead older workers to
have problems with their journey to work.
This will enable us to assess the information,
support and technology that would help
older workers to adapt their travel to
accommodate their changing needs. It will
also enable us to explore and describe the
relationship between travel decisions andorganisational factors.
Work Package 3.1
Occupational health provision in the
workplace
Qualitative data collection
Following on from our last update, we have
now completed a total of 25 interviews.
These have included interviews with
occupational health professionals, health and
safety managers, line managers and trade
union representatives.
We have also conducted 2 focus groups with
occupational health professionals, and 2focus groups with employees from the utility
industry and higher education sector.
Quantitative data collection
The survey is now live in two organisations
and the current response count is over 600.
We are still negotiating with other
organisations who we hope will distribute
the questionnaire to their employees during
November.
Any organisations interested in taking part
in our survey should contact either:
Miss Myanna Duncan
or
Mr Aadil Kazi
Work Package 4
Ageing productively through design
New Staff
Elaine Williams has been appointed as the
Research Associate on WP4 and will be
joining the research team at the end ofNovember.