Jim Ogg

Jim has a BSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex, an MSc in Social Work from the University of London, an MSc in Social Research, University of Surrey, and a PhD (Transitions and pathways to living alone: changes in living arrangements amongst older people in late modernity) from Keele University.

Jim’s projects with the Young Foundation include: A comparsion of the residential strategies among the baby boomer generations in Paris and London, financed by the French Ministry Transport and Urban Planning, 2005-2008; Adpataions to housing and environment among older people – a comparsion between England and France, financed by the French Ministry of Research, 2006-2008; Grandparenting (1999-2002) with Geoff Dench - the first national survey of the subject undertaken in Britain and one of the most extensive studies of three-generational family life carried out for several decades; MIRE: Forms of kinship solidarity: review of current European research (2002-2004), financed by the Mission Recherche Expérimentation (MIRE), a governmental research department within the French Ministry of Employment and Solidarity.

He has also collaborated with Keele University on diverse projects including extending working life (2006) and ‘Boomers and Beyond: Intergenerational consumption and the mature imagination, 2005-2007. Based in Paris, he collaborates with the research department of the Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Vieillesse and the Institut National des Etudes Démographiques. He is a member of the Working Group on Intergenerational Transfers for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.

Recent Publications

• Ogg, J. (2006) A brief profile of the new British establishment. In Dench, G. The Rise and Rise of Meritocracy, Blackwell, Oxford.
• Ogg, J. and Renaut, S. (2006) The support of parents in old age by those born during 1945-1954 : a European perspective, Ageing and Society, 26(5) 723-743.
• Ogg, J. (2005) Heatwave : implications of the 2003 French heatwave for the social care of older people. Young Foundation Working, October 2005, ISSN 1749 – 4311, 49 pages.
• Attias-Donfut, C., Ogg, J. and Wolff, F.C. (2005) European patterns of intergenerational financial and time transfers, European Journal of Ageing, 2(3) 161-173.
• Attias-Donfut, C., Ogg, J. and Wolff, F.C. (2005) Financial Transfers, in Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Mannheim Institute for the Economics of Ageing.
• Attias-Donfut, C., Ogg, J. and Wolff, F.C. (2005) Family Support, in Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Mannheim Institute for the Economics of Ageing.
• Ogg J., (2005), “Social exclusion and insecurity among older Europeans: the influence of welfare regimes”, Ageing & Society, 25, 1-22.
• Ogg, J. (2003) Living alone in Later Life. London, ICS, 232pp.
• Ogg, J. and Gorgeon, C. (2003) Social gerontology in France: historical trends and recent developments. Ageing and Society 23(6), 1-18.
• Lowenstein A., Ogg J., (eds.), (2003), OASIS Final Report (Old Age and Autonomy: The Role of Service Systems and Intergenerational Family Solidarity),Center for Research and Study of Aging The University of Haifa : ISBN: 965-90602-0-3.
• Dench, G. and Ogg, J. (2002) Grandparenting in Britain: a Baseline study. London, ICS, 221pp.
• Phillipson, C., Bernard, M., Phillips, J. and Ogg, J. (2001) The Family and Community Life of Older People : Social Networks and Social Support in Three Urban Areas. London: Routledge