What is ‘a working life’? Changing the story with people aged over 65
Interactive workshops exploring how older people continue to work, contribute, and learn after traditional retirement age.
Date & time
29 October 2025 | 19.00-21.00
Event format
Attend event in person
Event type
Participatory interactive event, Workshop or training
Event topic
Our working lives
Audience
Adults
Academic discipline
Economics management and business studies, Sociology and social policy
Venue
What's on offer?
Two creative and discussion-based workshops, each lasting two hours. Participants will take part in activities, conversations, and knowledge sharing designed to highlight the ongoing value of work and learning in later life.
Millbrook Village Hall, Cornwall – 29 October 2025, 19:00–21:00
Leadworks, Plymouth – 6 November 2025, 11:00–13:00
What's it about?
The workshops draw on findings from the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Invisible Education Post-65: Reconfiguring Lives and Learning, which challenges the assumption that work ends with paid employment. The events will explore older people’s experiences of volunteering, caring, and other forms of unpaid work, encouraging new ways of thinking about what “working life” means beyond traditional retirement.
Who's leading the event?
Led by researchers from the University of Plymouth, working in collaboration with community partners in Stonehouse (Plymouth) and Millbrook (Cornwall).
Open to
Open to anyone interested in later life, work, and learning.
Of particular interest to
Of particular interest to older people (65+), their families, carers, and community groups, as well as professionals and volunteers working with older populations.
Scheduling information
Millbrook Village Hall, Cornwall – 29 October 2025, 19:00–21:00
Leadworks, Plymouth – 6 November 2025, 11:00–13:00
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