Welcome to the British Society of Gerontology 54th Annual Conference, 25-27 June 2025, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
The British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference attracts around 400 delegates from around the world, comprising academics and others interested in a wide range of issues related to ageing. In 2025 the conference will be held at the University of Surrey, Stag Hill campus. Whilst the University of Surrey has a long-history of research, knowledge exchange and public engagement about ageing, it now hosts the Centre of Excellence on Ageing, established in 2023, with its partner the Global Initiative on Ageing Foundation (GIA) under the auspices of the United Nations (UN). This multi and inter-disciplinary centre brings together over 60 fellows at the university whose work addresses a wide range of ageing related topics and issues.
The overall theme of BSG2025 is ‘Care, Creativity, Connection and Change’ – a broad composite of themes that we feel addresses timely issues in the middle of the 2020s, both in the UK and globally. Timely in terms of how these key areas of ageing intersect and timely to continuing debates about each one in contemporary social gerontology, policy making and practice. As always, BSG2025 welcomes those researching other areas of ageing and there will be a range of keynote plenaries, symposia, posters, lightening talks and workshops. More details and the call for abstracts and symposia will be published on our webpage very soon.
The University of Surrey is based in Guildford, in the heart of the Surrey Hills National Landscape, an area of importance and status akin to a national park. Accommodation will be available on the University’s Manor Park campus and there are a range of hotels and guest houses locally for those who prefer to stay off-site. The conference dinner will take place at G-Live, a state-of-the-art music and entertainment venue in the centre of Guildford. The town of Guildford has excellent transport links for national and international travellers – London Waterloo is 40 mins by train and Heathrow and Gatwick airports are within easy reach via public transport.
In addition to the main conference, the Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA) pre-conference session on 24th June 2025, will give early career researchers (ECRs) the opportunity to present their research, engage in workshops, and network with other ECRs. It welcomes presentations on ageing-related topics from early career researchers at all stages.
We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Surrey in June 2025!