Call for applications 2025
To support CCREATE-AGE in its vision to stimulate co-created ageing research, we will support a transdisciplinary group of people who are interested in co-creating a research proposal (Research Development Groups (RDGs)).
Research proposals should be submitted on the attached form and address research questions related to one or more priorities identified by communities through our 2023 and 2024 listening events. The priorities are:
- Work income and retirement
- Ageism
- Health care access
- Community transport
- Maintaining independence in social activities
- Housing: alternative models, overcrowding or substandard
- Indigenous communities’ connections: language, wider community, whānau and whenua
- Importance of Aged Care Facility – healthcare
- Connecting with education & creativity – purpose
- Amenities and facilities
- Safety concerns (including of kaumātua and tāmariki)
- Intergenerational relationships: support and strain
- Resilience
- Food & exercise
- Preventing memory loss
- Maintaining garden
- Addressing social isolation and loneliness
- Rainbow older people and safe meaningful community connections
- Ageing and migration experiences: language barriers, culturally appropriate services, belonging, losses, financial, transport, autonomy, intergenerational living
As a result of the award, the RDGs are expected to apply for at least one substantial research grant or funding opportunity.
The RDG should
- Include at least two experienced researchers at the University of Auckland.
- Have a chair who will convene the RDG meetings, report progress and maintain communication with CCREATE-AGE project manager.
- Be transdisciplinary, which means:
- Cover at least two academic disciplines
- Involve older people
- Involve collaborators from at least one sector other than academia i.e., private, public or civic society. For example, practitioners, local council, and voluntary sector representatives and community groups with an interest in the research topic may be useful partners.
The expected outputs of the RDG will be:
- At least one co-created research proposal with an outcome that will benefit older people in Aotearoa.
- A public seminar at a CCREATE-AGE forum to describe the work of the RDG.
- Progress report to CCREATE-AGE.
An introduction to CCREATE-AGE Research Development Groups (RDGs) was given at the Co-Creators Forum in 2023. The recording of the session is below:
An introduction to CCREATE-AGE Research Development Groups (RDGs) was given at the Co-Creators Forum in 2023. The recording of the session is below:
For further information please contact: CCREATEAGE@auckland.ac.nz