Professor Charles Musselwhite
Co-Director of Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research
Charles is Associate Professor in Gerontology at the Centre for Innovative Ageing at Aberystwyth University. He has a particular interest in improving public policy and practice around the built environment and transportation taking into account an ageing population, requiring sustainable and environmental contexts, including road user safety in later life, giving-up driving and creating age friendly neighbourhoods and communities. He has worked on 36 projects as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator totalling over £14 million research income. He has authored around 40 peer reviewed journal articles, 20 book chapters and has four books on these topics. He is keen to get my research out into the real world and work closely with UK, Welsh and local government, charities and third sector organisations and is keen on public engagement. He has appeared on BBC TV and international radio stations on a variety of mobility and built environment topics and appears regularly on BBC Three Counties radio discussing older people’s issues. He is Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier’s Journal of Transport and Health and is on the editorial board for Ageing and Society and Research in Transportation Business & Management journals.
In the news:
Making railways age friendly (November 2022)
New handbook demonstrates the UK Standards for Public Involvement in action (June 2020)