Tess Maginess is Senior Lecturer in Education in the School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland, where much of her work is with older learners. Tess has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, has been shortlisted for the Aonatas ‘STAR’ awards for her research project ‘Sagaciation’ and previously won the BERA-SAGE Research Practitioner of the Year for Adult Education. She has published on literature, education and mental health.

• 1. Introduction 2. Rationale and method: how we carried out the research 3. Findings: the educational dimensions of older people’s learning 4. Findings: the social dimensions of older people’s learning 5. Reflections on the research process 6. Conclusions and recommendations

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Tess Maginess is Senior Lecturer in Education in the School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland, where much of her work is with older learners. Tess has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, has been shortlisted for the Aonatas ‘STAR’ awards for her research project ‘Sagaciation’ and previously won the BERA-SAGE Research Practitioner of the Year for Adult Education. She has published on literature, education and mental health.

• 1. Introduction 2. Rationale and method: how we carried out the research 3. Findings: the educational dimensions of older people’s learning 4. Findings: the social dimensions of older people’s learning 5. Reflections on the research process 6. Conclusions and recommendations

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Tess Maginess is Senior Lecturer in Education in the School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland, where much of her work is with older learners. Tess has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship, has been shortlisted for the Aonatas ‘STAR’ awards for her research project ‘Sagaciation’ and previously won the BERA-SAGE Research Practitioner of the Year for Adult Education. She has published on literature, education and mental health.

• 1. Introduction 2. Rationale and method: how we carried out the research 3. Findings: the educational dimensions of older people’s learning 4. Findings: the social dimensions of older people’s learning 5. Reflections on the research process 6. Conclusions and recommendations

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