Robert Hagan
Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the Department of Social Care and Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Hagan is a senior lecturer in social work with teaching expertise on ageing, substance misuse, looked-after children, housing and homelessness, anti-oppressive practice and community approaches to social care. His research focuses on the social lives of older people and has completed studies on loneliness, day centre satisfaction, the use of rural community transport and service user-led dementia support groups. He also writes about sociological themes in comics.
Link
r.hagan@mmu.ac.uk
Healthy Ageing Expertise
Dr Hagan’s research focuses on the social lives of older people which includes but is not limited to exploring lived experiences of various forms of social inclusion and exclusion in later life, including the use of community transport, day services, experiences of loneliness, and citizenship for those with early stages dementia.
Relevant Projects
- Application made to NIHR programme development grant regarding exploring understanding of loneliness and responses to this with social work practittioners.
- Working on analysis of May Sarton’s journals to track a detailed experience of ageing and loneliness.
