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Prepare for Impact? Reflecting on Knowledge Exchange Work to Improve Services for Older LGBT People in Times of Austerity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2013

Andrew King
Andrew King*
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Department of Sociology, University of Surrey E-mail: andrew.king@surrey.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article reflects on the experience of undertaking a knowledge exchange project with a local government authority to improve services for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) adults. It frames this project in terms of local government equality work, existing research and initiatives concerning older LGBT people and the coming of austerity. The project methodology is detailed, including discussion of the generation and measurement of impact. Some critical issues that arose during the project are considered, including suggestions that these may have been related to economic austerity. The article concludes that although knowledge exchange work with older LGBT people faces challenges in such times, future research and initiatives are warranted.

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Knowledge exchangeimpactLGBTausterity
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 15 - 27
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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