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    Gerontology, Art and Activism: can the intersection of art, social research and community power lead to lasting change?

    Campbell, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2920-7318, Dewhurst, Elaine, Chaudry, Atiha, Edson, Ruth, Ghafoor, Rohina, Greenhalgh, Marie, Lacy, Suzanne and Madzunzu, Tendayi (2023) Gerontology, Art and Activism: can the intersection of art, social research and community power lead to lasting change? The Gerontologist, 63 (10). pp. 1654-1662. ISSN 0016-9013

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    This paper seeks to address the question of what gerontologists and humanities scholars can learn from how their respective fields engage with critical issues of age-based intersectional disadvantage, inequality, colonialism, and exclusion. The paper considers the Uncertain Futures Project a participatory arts-led social research study based in Manchester, United Kingdom. The project explores the inequalities of women over 50 regarding issues of work using an intersectional lens. This work has produced a complex entanglement of methodological ideas that underpin performance art, community activism, and gerontological research. The paper will consider if this model can lead to a lasting impact beyond the scope of the project and beyond the individuals involved. Firstly, we outline the work undertaken from the conception of the project. We consider the relationship between these activities and the ongoing nature of qualitative data analysis within the complexity of academic workloads and competing priorities. We raise questions and considerations of how the elements of the work have connected, collaborated, and intertwined. We also explore the challenges within interdisciplinary and collaborative work. Finally, we address the kind of legacy and impact created by work of this nature.

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