The Later Life Podcast

What Have Older Students Ever Done for Us?
With Dr Christine O’Kelly, Age-Friendly University at Dublin City University

What role can older students play in shaping our universities, workplaces and wider society?

In the first episode of The Later Life Podcast, Dr Christine O’Kelly joins us to explore the remarkable growth of lifelong learning and the contribution older people make to education and intergenerational life.

Fresh from the 50th anniversary celebrations of the University of the Third Age at the University of Wrocław, Christine reflects on five decades of active ageing and educational engagement. She also discusses the proposed Declaration of Rights for Older People and looks ahead to Dublin City University’s upcoming meeting of the European Federation of Older Students, hosted alongside the Generations at Work Conference.

It’s a conversation about learning without age limits – and why universities and workplaces thrive when every generation has a place in them.