Professor Liam Foster is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Sheffield, England, who specializes in pensions, extending working lives, gender inequalities and theories of ageing. Professor Foster has developed a national and international profile in ageing and pensions. He has commented on retirement planning in the media, advised unions (TUC), been involved in projects with pension providers (AXA and Prudential) and charities (The Fawcett Society), and has been referenced by political parties (Labour’s Older Women’s Commission) in relation to pensions. He has presented his research at a variety of national and international conferences and has been an invited speaker at the Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Education, the European Parliament in Brussels, the House of Lords, and the UN in New York as a world leading expert on ageing. He has authored over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and has authored or edited six books. These include methods-based texts. Professor Foster’s latest work is focused on exclusion and inequality in late working life and is part of a large-scale four country study funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health and Working Life (2019-25) (http://www.eiwoproject.org/).
For further information about his research and publications see:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/people/academic-staff/liam-foster