Getting On: understanding & writing love in later life (ESRC IAA-funded)

Getting On: Understanding & Writing Love in Later Life is a new project that explores and embraces the lived experience and cultural representations of love in later life in Scotland today. The project is being run from the University of Strathclyde by staff in Creative Writing and Social Work/Social Policy in collaboration with Autumn Voices, the organisation for growing old creatively.

There are many forms of love, and many forms of love in later life. It can involve maintaining existing relationships, forging new ones, and it cannot be considered without the potential experience of solitude. This project, which is funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration fund (administered the University of Strathclyde) hopes to achieve impact by informing a change in attitudes to love and ageing.