Frank Glendenning Memorial Lectures:

This annual series started in 2003 in honour of our founder.

Frank Glendenning was a founder member and prime mover in the development of the Association for Education and Ageing in the early 1980s, when he was based at Keele University, in Staffordshire, UK.

As an academic, Frank had published and travelled widely and had organised educational programmes and conferences in the new area of learning in later life or ‘education for the elderly’ as it was sometimes known then.  These activities had established him internationally as a pioneer in the field of educational gerontology, and a champion of good practice in many professional fields where older people were the clients / patients / users.

Frank was a member of AEA’s Executive Committee and of its Journal Editorial Board from their beginnings, until ill-health prevented him continuing.  He died in December 2002. 

The annual lecture series was set up in his memory by the Association in 2003.  It seeks to promote the high quality and variety of work involving older people that Frank himself espoused throughout his long and creative working life.

This year's Frank Glendenning lecture will take place in London at Camden Town Hall on Thursday afternoon 22nd July 2010 and will be delivered by Dr Alex Withnall.  Further details including the subject of Dr Withnall's lecture and the time will appear here when available.   This lecture is free and open to the public.  

For details of Dr Withnall's recent publication “Improving Learning in Later Life" please go to our News and Views page:   New and Views

The 2009 lecture was given by Professor Keith Percy at Lancaster University on Thursday 2 April. The subject was “The Owl of Minerva: Wisdom, Experience and Learning in Later Life”   For further details please go to the Events page on this website:   Events

The following lectures are now available as full-text downloads:

* 2008 - Professor Emeritus David James:

Living and Learning: Exploring our Biological Roots  Frank Glendenning Memorial Lecture-2008

* 2007 - Dr Eric Midwinter:

U3Alogy: The thinking behind the U3A in the UK  Frank_Glendenning_Memorial_Lecture-2007

*2006 - Professor Emeritus Brian Groombridge:

Extra Time: Arts, Health and Learning in Later Life Frank_Glendenning_Memorial_Lecture-2006

Earlier lectures (not available as documents) were:

*2005 – Professor Phil Lyon:

*2004 – Professor Alan Walker: