Welcome to the Look at Me! Project

The Look at Me! Images of Women & Ageing Project aims to transform the way society views older women.

This is a unique project which will challenge the current perceptions of older women in our society. The Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002 recognised a need to challenge stereotyped images of ageing, particularly in relation to older women. The use of visual methods as a means of allowing older women to tell us their experiences of ageing is one way of doing this but, to date, `ordinary´ older women have not had the opportunity to either comment on, or create, their own images of ageing. This project aims to do precisely that.

We have invited older women in Sheffield to join our creative workshops exploring images of ageing. The women were given the opportunity to create their own images of the ageing process, which we are proposing to exhibit at public venues in and around Sheffield in March 2011 to mark the centenary of International Women’s Day.




Latest News

  • 01/02/2012
    Project Publications
    Obtain guidance on using participatory visual methods: click here to view

    Find out about the challenges of creating alternative images of ageing: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2011.08.001

    Read about the views of older women on dominant media images and explore their responses to those images: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=409441 ...» read more
  • 01/01/2012
    Project Findings
    The Look at Me! project ended in November 2011. Since then, members of the project team have been busy writing up and giving talks on the findings. We have also run workshops at a local school bringing together project participants and children to explore images of ageing. Images from the project are now on display at various sites, being used on book covers, and featuring in articles. You can download the key findings from the project and details of its impact from the New Dynamics of Ageing website:

    http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/nda-findings-10.html...» read more
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