SLIC at the Senior Studies Institute
SSI has 4 main areas of work:
Lifelong Learning
Encouraging continuing personal growth and intellectual development of older learners through a wide ranging programme of daytime classes, seminars and other learning opportunities.
Useful Learning
Providing opportunities for older people to use their learning and life skills in a range of socially valuable contexts – as family members, citizens, and volunteers, in employment or enterprise. This includes developing learning opportunities in areas which are not traditionally viewed as the domain of adult education, but which are appropriate to SSI learners.
Widening access
to other university courses and expanding opportunities in the community. This is being achieved by working with social partners in recruiting learners from currently less represented communities of place and interest, and in expanding the role of other University faculties in supporting learners, as a bridge to advanced learning.
Initiating and supporting research
into later life issues and disseminating knowledge about the human resource value of the older population. SSI plays an important role in the development of Scottish research networks and is an important contributor to policy at European level.
Specific volunteering projects
The SSI's specific volunteering projects recruit people from its Learning in Later Life community to participate in the following activities -
- University Volunteer Guides who ensure that the historic buildings on the campus, that have been restored in partnership with the community, are open to visitors locally and from all parts of the world and that these can be interpreted in appropriate detail.
- Computer Buddies who offer a one-to-one introduction to computers free of charge, to break down barriers and enable older people to go on to more formal instruction with confidence.
- Spinal Injury Support in a specialist hospital unit in Glasgow to introduce evening social activities into the lives of injured patients in the wards and also offer one-to-one support in collaboration with other agencies.
- Supporting specialist interest clubs that have developed from the classes of the Learning in Later Life Programme. These encourage self-directed learning by older students.
Contact
Maureen Marley
maureen.marley@strath.ac.uk
Address
Senior Studies Institute
3rd floor,
Graham Hills Building,
40 George Street,
Glasgow G1 1QE
SCOTLAND
http://www.cll.strath.ac.uk/ssi.html
