Originally from Ireland, Louise worked for many years at Middlesex University, London, where she was Co-Director of the Social Policy Research Centre, from 2016 she was Professor of Sociology at University of Sheffield. In 2020 she became Senior Professor at London Metropolitan University. Louise has a particular interest in migration, especially intra-EU mobility, and has published many highly cited articles on migrant social networks. She is currently writing a book on migration and social networks to be published by Policy Press.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1811 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1386-7212 |
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| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louise-Ryan |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Other
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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London Metropolitan University
University, London, United Kingdom
Senior Professor -
Global Diversities and Inequalities research centre
Research Institute, London, United Kingdom
Director -
London Metropolitan University
University, London, United Kingdom
Senior Professor of Sociology
Research
‘It hurts my heart’: Afghan women in London negotiating family relationships and (im)mobility regimes across borders
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Maria Lopez, Mursal Rasa |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
‘You would never pick up the thread from where you left off’: Older Irish women migrants' narratives of non‐return, post‐retirement
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Louise Ryan, Neha Doshi, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
‘I am afraid to fly there’: informal care in Polish migrants’ families immobilised by COVID-19
| Authors | Weronika Kloc-Nowak, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Qualitative analysis of migrants' network data: Using conceptual reflexivity to reveal the ‘magic trick’
| Authors | Alessio D'Angelo, Alessio D'Angelo, Louise Ryan, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
Dis-embedding or Re-embedding? Exploring Migrants’ Responses in Contexts of ‘Unsettling Events’
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times |
Bringing anchoring and embedding together: theorising migrants’ lives over-time
| Authors | Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
Advancing the embedding framework: using longitudinal methods to revisit French highly skilled migrants in the context of Brexit
| Authors | Jon Mulholland, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
The Direct and Indirect Role of Migrants’ Networks in Accessing Diverse Labour Market Sectors: An Analysis of the Weak/Strong Ties Continuum
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Revisiting Migrant Networks | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction: Revisiting Networks: Setting the Conceptual and Methodological Scene
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Michael Eve, Elif Keskiner |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Revisiting Migrant Networks | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“You Still Want to Go Lots of Places”: Exploring Walking Interviews in Research With Older Migrants
| Authors | Magdolna Lőrinc, Majella Kilkey, Louise Ryan, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | The Gerontologist | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Analysing migrants' ageing in place as embodied practices of embedding through time: ‘Kilburn is not Kilburn any more’
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Majella Kilkey, Magdolna Lőrinc, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Qualitative network analysis for migration studies: Beyond metaphors and epistemological pitfalls
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Janine Dahinden |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
Telling network stories: researching migrants' changing social relations in places over time
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
Networks as ‘laboratories of experience’: exploring the life cycle of the suffrage movement and its aftermath in Ireland 1870–1937
| Authors | Caitríona Beaumont, Mary Clancy, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Women's History Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Unsettling Events: Understanding Migrants’ Responses to Geopolitical Transformative Episodes through a Life-Course Lens
| Authors | Majella Kilkey, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
The “Irish question”: marginalizations at the nexus of sociology of migration and ethnic and racial studies in Britain
| Authors | Mary J. Hickman, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Brexit and Beyond: Transforming Mobility and Immobility
| Authors | Majella Kilkey, Aneta Piekut, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2020 |
| Citations (WoS) | 8 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Talking about Bordering
| Authors | Nira Yuval-Davis, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2020 |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
De-individualising the ‘NEET problem’: An ecological systems analysis
| Authors | Magdolna Lőrinc, Louise Ryan, Alessio D’Angelo, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | European Educational Research Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social network analysis: New ethical approaches through collective reflexivity. Introduction to the special issue of Social Networks
| Authors | Paola Tubaro, Louise Ryan, Antonio A. Casilli, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Social Networks | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Young people, school engagement and perceptions of support: a mixed methods analysis
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Alessio D’Angelo, Neil Kaye, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Youth Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrant Capitals: Proposing a Multi-Level Spatio-Temporal Analytical Framework
| Authors | Umut Erel, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The presentation of the networked self: Ethics and epistemology in social network analysis
| Authors | Alessio D’Angelo, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Social Networks | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Narratives of Settling in Contexts of Mobility: A Comparative Analysis of Irish and Polish Highly Qualified Women Migrants in London
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Gendered, spatial and temporal approaches to Polish intra-European migration
| Authors | Marta Bivand Erdal, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Gender, Place & Culture | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Perceptions, prejudices and possibilities: young people narrating apprenticeship experiences
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Magdolna Lőrinc |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | British Journal of Sociology of Education |
Changing times: Migrants’ social network analysis and the challenges of longitudinal research
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Alessio D’Angelo |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Social Networks | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Differentiated embedding: Polish migrants in London negotiating belonging over time
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 17 |
Social Class and Sociology: The State of the Debate Between 1967 and 1979
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Claire Maxwell |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Looking for weak ties: using a mixed methods approach to capture elusive connections
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | The Sociological Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 7 |
Visualization in Mixed-Methods Research on Social Networks
| Authors | Alessio D'angelo, Louise Ryan, Paola Tubaro |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Sociological Research Online | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Visual Sociogram in Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research
| Authors | Paola Tubaro, Louise Ryan, Alessio D'angelo |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Sociological Research Online | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘It's Different Now’: A Narrative Analysis of Recent Irish Migrants Making Sense of Migration and Comparing Themselves with Previous Waves of Migrants
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Irish Journal of Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction: Contemporary Irish Emigration
| Authors | Mary J. Hickman, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Irish Journal of Sociology |
‘Always up for the craic’: young Irish professional migrants narrating ambiguous positioning in contemporary Britain
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Edina Kurdi |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Social Identities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Friendship-making: Exploring Network Formations through the Narratives of Irish Highly Qualified Migrants in Britain
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 13 |
‘Gotta Go Visit Family’: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Tourism and Transnationalism
| Authors | Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, Louise Ryan, Jon Mulholland |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 |
Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities, Strategies
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Umut Erel, Alessio D’Angelo |
| Year | 2015 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Talking Ties: Reflecting on Network Visualisation and Qualitative Interviewing
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Jon Mulholland, Agnes Agoston |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Sociological Research Online | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
'Islam does not change': young people narrating negotiations of religion and identity
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Youth Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘The distance between us’: a comparative examination of the technical, spatial and temporal dimensions of the transnational social relationships of highly skilled migrants
| Authors | LOUISE RYAN, AMANDA KLEKOWSKI VON KOPPENFELS, JON MULHOLLAND |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
| Citations (WoS) | 24 |
‘Wives Are the Route to Social Life’: An Analysis of Family Life and Networking amongst Highly Skilled Migrants in London
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Jon Mulholland |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Doing the Business: Variegation, Opportunity and Intercultural Experience among Intra‐EU Highly‐Skilled Migrants
| Authors | Jon Mulholland, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
French connections: the networking strategies of French highly skilled migrants in London
| Authors | LOUISE RYAN, JON MULHOLLAND |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
| Citations (WoS) | 32 |
Trading Places: French Highly Skilled Migrants Negotiating Mobility and Emplacement In London
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Jon Mulholland |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 39 |
Dressing Religious Bodies in Public Spaces: Gender, Clothing and Negotiations of Stigma Among Jews in Paris and Muslims in London
| Authors | Lucine Endelstein, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Mothering Through Islam’: Narratives of Religious Identity in London
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Elena Vacchelli |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Religion and Gender | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Compare and contrast: understanding Irish migration to Britain in a wider context
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Irish Studies Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction: Gender, Religion and Migration
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Elena Vacchelli |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Religion and Gender | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Exploring Trends and Challenges in Sociological Research
| Authors | Linda McKie, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrants' Social Networks and Weak Ties: Accessing Resources and Constructing Relationships Post-Migration
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | The Sociological Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 126 |
Muslim Women Negotiating Collective Stigmatization: ‘We’re Just Normal People’
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnational Relations: Family Migration among Recent Polish Migrants in London
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | International Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Family Migration: The Role of Children and Education in Family Decision‐Making Strategies of Polish Migrants in London
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Rosemary Sales |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | International Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Becoming Polish in London: negotiating ethnicity through migration
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Social Identities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Insiders and outsiders: working with peer researchers in researching Muslim communities
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Eleonore Kofman, Pauline Aaron |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY |
How women use family networks to facilitate migration: A comparative study of Irish and Polish women in Britain
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | HISTORY OF THE FAMILY | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Family Strategies and Transnational Migration: Recent Polish Migrants in London
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Rosemary Sales, Mary Tilki, ... |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 124 |
Polish ‘Temporary’ Migration: The Formation and Significance of Social Networks
| Authors | Anne White, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Europe-Asia Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 71 |
Social Networks, Social Support and Social Capital: The Experiences of Recent Polish Migrants in London
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Rosemary Sales, Mary Tilki, ... |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Families “Here” and “There”: Women, Migration and the Management of Emotions
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES |
‘I Had a Sister in England’: Family-Led Migration, Social Networks and Irish Nurses
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 20 |
Migrant Women, Social Networks and Motherhood: The Experiences of Irish Nurses in Britain
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Explanations of depression among Irish migrants in Britain
| Authors | Gerard Leavey, Linda Rozmovits, Louise Ryan, ... |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | Social Science & Medicine | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Who do you think you are? Irish nurses encountering ethnicity and constructing identity in Britain
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 27 |
Depression in Irish migrants living in London: case-control study
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Gerard Leavey, Anne Golden, ... |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Rethinking Social Movement Theories in the Twenty-first Century
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Tick the Box Please’: A Reflexive Approach to Doing Quantitative Social Research
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Anne Golden |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Self-determination, race, and empire: Feminist nationalists in Britain, Ireland and the United States, 1830s to World War One
| Authors | Lucy Delap, Louise Ryan, Teresa Zackodnik |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Women's Studies International Forum | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Book Review: Questions of Migration: Geographical and Transnational Mobility in the Twenty-first Century
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Revisiting Ethnicity, Migration and Economy
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2004 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Family Matters: (E)migration, Familial Networks and Irish Women in Britain
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2004 |
| Journal Name | The Sociological Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 57 |
Moving spaces and changing places: Irish women's memories of emigration to Britain in the 1930s
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 34 |
Leaving home: Irish press debates on female employment, domesticity and emigration to Britain in the 1930s
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | Women's History Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mother India/mother Ireland: Comparative gendered dialogues of colonialism and nationalism in the early 20th century
| Authors | Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2002 |
| Journal Name | Women's Studies International Forum | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Sexualising emigration: Discourses of irish female emigration in the 1930s
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2002 |
| Journal Name | Women's Studies International Forum |
Irish Female Emigration in the 1930s: Transgressing space and culture
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2001 |
| Journal Name | Gender, Place & Culture |
Aliens, migrants and maids: Public discourses on Irish immigration to Britain in 1937
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2001 |
| Journal Name | Immigrants & Minorities |
‘Drunken Tans’: Representations of Sex and Violence in the Anglo-Irish War (1919–21)
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2000 |
| Journal Name | Feminist Review |
‘Furies’ and ‘Die‐hards’: Women and Irish Republicanism in the Early Twentieth Century
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 1999 |
| Journal Name | Gender & History |
Constructing ‘Irishwoman’: Modern girls and comely maidens
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 1998 |
| Journal Name | Irish Studies Review |
Negotiating modernity and tradition: newspaper debates on the 'modern girl' in the Irish Free State
| Authors | L Ryan |
| Year | 1998 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Gender Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A question of loyalty: War, nation, and feminism in early twentieth-century Ireland
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 1997 |
| Journal Name | Women's Studies International Forum | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘The massacre of innocence’ infanticide in the Irish free state
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 1996 |
| Journal Name | Irish Studies Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Traditions and double moral standards: the Irish suffragists' critique of nationalism[1]
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 1995 |
| Journal Name | Women's History Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Women without votes: The political strategies of the Irish suffrage movement
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 1994 |
| Journal Name | Irish Political Studies |
Editorial: Bodies at borders: analyzing the objectification and containment of migrants at border crossing
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Izabela Grabowska, Maria Lopez, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Sociology |
“What are you doing here?”: Narratives of border crossings among diverse Afghans going to the UK at different times
| Authors | María López, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology?
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrant Capital
| Authors | Umut Erel, Louise Ryan, Alessio D’Angelo | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Embedding in Motion: Analysing Relational, Spatial and Temporal Dynamics among Highly Skilled Migrants
| Authors | Jon Mulholland, Louise Ryan |
| Book Title | Migrant Capital | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction Understanding ‘Migrant Capital’
| Authors | Umut Erel, Louise Ryan, Alessio D’Angelo |
| Book Title | Migrant Capital | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Moving Lives: Narratives of Nation and Migration among Europeans in Post-War Britain
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Immigrants & Minorities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Working Lives: gender, migration and employment in Britain, 1945–2007
| Authors | Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Social & Cultural Geography |
Azra Hromadžić and Monika Palmberger (eds), Care Across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration, Berghahn Books, Oxford, 2018, 192 pp., hbk US $110.00, £78.00, ISBN 13: 9781785338007.
| Authors | LOUISE RYAN |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Ageing and Society |