Galit Nimrod, profesora e investigadora del Departamento de Estudios de la Comunicación y del Centro Multidisciplinar de Investigación sobre el Envejecimiento de la Universidad Ben-Gurion de Negev, Israel, estará en la VIII edición del Foro Internacional de Investigación OcioGune

Como investigadora, la doctora Nimrod ha trabajado temas como el ocio, el envejecimiento y el uso de los medios de comunicación para un ocio inclusivo y accesible, y presentará en Bilbao su ponencia tilutada Leisure across the later life span: Continuity and change» (Ocio en la edad tardía: continuidad y cambio).

Leisure across the later life span: Continuity and change

Leisure across the later life span has been studied extensively for several decades.  Based on the existing literature, including the author’s own empirical and theoretical work, this paper aims to review the current body of knowledge regarding continuity and change in leisure in later life. The paper illustrates how leisure changes across the later life span; discusses how the meaning of leisure may be influenced during later life; and describes how common later-life transitions, such as retirement and spousal loss, can affect older adults’ leisure and well-being. This area of research has both theoretical and practical implications. From a theoretical perspective, investigating why and how leisure changes as people age contributes to the understanding of the role of leisure in adjusting to and coping with challenges associated with old age. From a practical perspective, such investigations may enhance leisure service providers’ understanding of their older audiences, and eventually lead to better programming and services in the field.

Short bio:

Galit Nimrod, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at the Department of Communication Studies and a research fellow at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Aging at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Journalism from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she was a Fulbright post-doctoral scholar in the Gerontology Center and the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Georgia, US.

Dr. Nimrod studies psychological and sociological aspects of leisure and media use among populations with special needs such as older adults and people with disabilities. Within this area, she focuses on several subjects, including leisure and later life transitions, innovation in leisure, and new media as leisure activity and their functions for individuals and various social groups.

Ken Roberts, profesor e investigador de la Universidad de Liverpool será uno de los ponentes de la VIII edición del Foro Internacional de Investigación OcioGune 2013. El profesor Roberts nos presentará su ponencia «Youth and Leisure in an age of austerity» (Jóvenes y ocio en una era de la austeridad).

A continuación presentamos un breve resumen de su ponencia invitada, así como un breve curriculum.

 

YOUTH AND LEISURE IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY

Ken Roberts

University of Liverpool

Abstract

Despite young people’s above-average risks of unemployment in most countries, the evidence to date suggests that young people’s leisure has remained largely austerity-free. This is explained not in terms of historically novel features of the recession itself, but in terms of changes in youth’s leisure that occurred in preceding decades with the lengthening of the youth life stage, the advent of new leisure industries based on the latest information and communication technologies, and changes in the pattern of class inequalities. The evidence indicates that it is child-rearing households whose leisure has proved most vulnerable during the recession, which has implications for leisure socialisation during childhood, which will have lifelong consequences.

 

Ken Roberts is Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool where he has been a member of staff since 1966. His is a founder member, now honorary member and co-opted member of the Executive Committee, of the Leisure Studies Association. His first book on leisure, titled simply Leisure, was published in 1970. His other books include Contemporary Society and the Growth of Leisure (1977), Youth and Leisure (1983), Leisure and Lifestyle (1989), The Leisure Industries (2004), Leisure in Contemporary Society (2006), and Youth in Transition: Eastern Europe and the West (2009). He is a past president of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Leisure, a past chair of the World Leisure Organization’s Research Commission and a Senior Fellow of the American Leisure Academy and the World Leisure Academy.