Brown Bag seminar: Ageing and Wellbeing: Bridging Biology and Culture

Welcome to this Brown Bag seminar on Tuesday 28th of April in Tellus Stage to hear about how ageing and wellbeing are interlinked and which choices and habits have a positive impact on wellbeing in old age. The speakers in this seminar are Associate Professor Juulia Jylhävä from the Research Unit of Population Health working with the HealthDimensions research programme and University Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology Tiina Suopajärvi.

In her presentation, Associate Professor Jylhävä describes what is meant by biological aging, why some people age faster than others, and why this matters.

University Lecturer Suopajärvi explains what it means to study aging from a cultural anthropological perspective. A practical example is research project Ageing with Nature led by Suopajärvi, which examines how ageing is a process entangled with other people and with other natural elements and how this entanglement is lived in the everyday lives of the aged and how they support their wellbeing.

The seminar will take place on Tuesday 28th of April from 11 am to 12 pm at Tellus Stage on Linnanmaa campus. Lunch will be provided for those who register by Thursday 23rd of April at 12 pm. The seminar will be in English.

If you cannot make it to the Linnanmaa campus, you can also participate via Zoom. If you participate via Zoom, you don’t need to register for the event.

The aim of the Brown Bag Seminars is to showcase University of Oulu’s research and to encourage knowledge-sharing and networking amongst our researchers. Once a month, we invite two of our researchers from different fields to talk about their research related to the same topic. Brown Bag Seminars are open to everyone – come learn something new and join in the conversation!

Note UniOGS Doctoral Researchers: You can add Brown Bag Seminars in your personal learning plan and once you have attended 10 Brown Bag Seminars, you can get 0,5 credits of doctoral studies.