Professor Christina Victor

Professor of Public Health Brunel University

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Professor Christina Victor

Christina is Professor of Gerontology and Public Health in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care at Brunel University. Most recently she has developed a keen interest in loneliness and isolation; the benefits of exercise and activity in later life and the experiences of old age and later life amongst minority communities. Christina is currently leading a number of research projects in these areas including ‘Families and caring in South Asian communities’ (funded by ESRC), ‘Inter and intra generational patterns of caring amongst minority communities’ (funded by Leverhulme) and ‘Dignity in care for older people’ (funded by Dunhill Medical Trust). She has written extensively in the field of gerontology and is the current Editor of Ageing and Society, the leading social gerontology journal in the UK.