Professor Miriam Bernard
Mim Bernard is Professor of Social Gerontology and Director of the Centre for Social Gerontology at Keele University. She came to Keele as an undergraduate student in the 1970s, taking a Combined Honours degree in English Literature and Geography. After a year away, she returned to undertake her PhD (in Social/Human Geography) and has lived in the Potteries ever since. Mim worked with older people in the local voluntary sector for six years (as Research Officer for the Beth Johnson Foundation) before returning to Keele in 1988 to help set up the first programmes in Gerontology (Certificate, Diploma and Masters) outside London. She has been a social gerontologist for the last 25 years and has extensive experience of policy and practice-relevant research with older people. Mim is the author/editor of 19 books and monographs, over 70 book chapters and journal articles, and many research reports. She is currently on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships and the Policy Press book series Ageing and the Lifecourse; and was President (2010-2012), and is now Past President (2012-2014), of the British Society of Gerontology.