The UQ Age Friendly Committee drives greater inclusion and diversity with respect to age at UQ and the community it serves.

The Committee and its initiatives are underpinned by a lifespan perspective of ageing, acknowledging individual’s movement through their own unique life trajectory.

We will:

  • facilitate consultation with the UQ community and key internal and external stakeholders to ensure progress on on implementing, maintaining and extending the University’s commitment to the Age-Friendly University principles (see below) through all relevant actions and initiatives
  • provide advice to UQ’s broader committees and governance bodies on
    • matters relating to the institutionalisation /operationalisation of the AFU principles in existing policies and practices
    • new initiatives to strengthen the University’s support of the AFU principles and potential funding or other resources to support such initiatives
  • provide leadership within the University by encouraging intergenerational engagement with events, programs and other initiatives at UQ
  • disseminate information about actions and initiatives related to the AFU principles to the broad UQ community and stakeholders.

Age Friendly Steering Committee Terms of Reference (PDF, 113.4 KB)

Age-Friendly Steering Committee Members

Name

Position

Professor Nancy Pachana - Chair

Program Lead, UQ Age-Friendly University Initiatives

Professor Greg Hainge – Deputy Chair

School of Languages & Cultures

Professor Lydia Kavanaugh

President of Academic Board

A/Prof Remi Ayoko

Business School

Dr Annette Broome

Metro South Health

Dr Bernadette Cochrane

School of Communication and Arts

A/Prof Marisa Cordella-Masini

School of Languages & Cultures

Emeritus Professor Fred d'Agostino

Totum Negotium

Professor Di Eley

Academy for Medical Education

Sophie Griffiths

Postgraduate Student Representative

Professor Tim Kastelle

Liveris Academy/ EAIT

Dr Catherine Lawrence

Immediate Past President Alumni Friends

Professor Shuang Liu

School of Communication and Arts

Dr Kate Power

Business School

Amanda Salmon

Postdoctoral Fellow Representative

Dr Rebekah Scotney

School of Veterinary Science

Dr Lucy Thomas

Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Stephanie Power

Council on the Aging, Policy, Insights and Engagement

John Armstrong

VP, University of the Third Age

Emily McCann

Queensland Brain Institute

Aditya Neurgaonkar

Undergraduate Student Representative

Dr Pia Wohland-Jakhar

School of the Environment

Dr Elizabeth Krenske

School of the Environment

Dr Susan Beetson

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dr Tiina Lammervo

Research Ethics and Integrity

Dr Katie Williams

Business School

Anne Rogers

Undergraduate Student Representatives

Dr Peter Worthy

Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Justine Cawley

UQ Library

Courtney Louden

UQ AFU Project Manager/ Secretariat