Ageing in Indonesia
Dr Philip Kreager’s work on a multi-site longitudinal study of ageing in three communities, supported by the Welcome Trust during 1999-2007, when he was Director of Ageing in Indonesia, has led to continuing collaboration with the University of Indonesia, as it establishes its own ageing research programme. For example, current work as Consultant to the New Dynamics of Ageing, project (SUS-IT) at University of Loughborough continues research in Ageing in Indonesia's field sites under the direction of Professor E. Hogervorst (Loughborough) and Professor Tri Budi Rahardjo (UI) on the association of phytoestrogens, sex steroids and folate with dementia. More generally, Dr Kreager’s research as a demographer and social anthropologist addresses aspects of the life course in which fertility change and its implications are primary concerns: childlessness, age-structural transition, gender, migration, comparative family systems, vulnerability and socio-economic status. Recent work includes study of the nexus of family and civil society organizations in the context of deficient state support, and the application of combined methodologies embracing multi-site ethnography, panel surveys, and network analysis.