Juliet Craig

Senior Research Manager (BA (Hons), MSc)

Academic Profile

Juliet joined the University in April 2009 to manage the Department’s European ageing research. In 2013 she began working on INNOVAGE and MOPACT. Work on two previous projects was completed in 2012.

Juliet is an experienced research and information manager who has worked in the field since 1998, most recently in support of Sheffield's economy, labour market, urban environment and knowledge economy.

Current projects

INNOVAGE - Social Innovations Promoting Active and Healthy Ageing: INNOVAGE is an ambitious project dedicated to developing and testing, as well as surveying and cataloguing, social innovations that will have a solid impact on improving the quality of life and well-being of older people. In particular the project aims to make a major contribution to the EU Horizon 2020 goal of extending healthy life years. Start date: December 2012 for 36 months

MOPACT - Mobilising the Potential of Active Ageing in Europe: The starting point for MOPACT is the ambitious goals set by Horizon 2020 and the European Innovation Partnership Pilot Project on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPAHA). The MOPACT response is ambitious too: we aim to provide the research and practical evidence upon which Europe can make longevity an asset for social and economic development. MOPACT will create a high quality, multi-disciplinary critical mass of leading researchers and, in the closest possible partnership with stakeholders and through a carefully planned iterative process, build a compendium of essential state-of-the-art and foresight intelligence upon which to develop the policy, practice, service and product developments and innovations required to meet the goals of Horizon 2020 and, in particular, the EIPAHA. Active and healthy ageing is the primary focus of MOPACT and it will build on the momentum created by EY2012. Start date: 1 March 2013 for 48 months.

Past projects

FUTURAGE - The Road Map for Ageing Research ran from 2009-2011 and created a Road Map for European ageing research for the next 10-15 years. http://www.futurage.group.shef.ac.uk/

ERA-AGE 2, the European Research Area in Ageing was established in 2004 and coordinated ageing research among national funders across Europe and North America through a series of joint actitivites and joint calls. http://www.era-age.group.shef.ac.uk/