Peter Oleski Email & Phone Number

Whiteley, Hampshire

Southampton, United Kingdom

• I run the Active Friends Project (funded by Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales) to help people aged 50 and over in Southampton to become more active and less socially isolated. During this 2-year project, I.
• Line managed 40 Active Friend volunteers
• Co-organised 2 'Connecting with Old Age' conferences at the University of Southampton
• Led Q&A sessions for 200+ students and run a number of workshops at the University of Southampton and Southampton Solent University
• The main author of the research ‘Active Friends in dementia friendly Southampton’ presented at the academic conferences – University of Southampton (September 2014) and Alzheimer Europe in Glasgow (October 2014).
• Panellist at Career Destinations events

Southampton, United Kingdom

This part time role coupled with studying towards my MSc in Gerontology was a fantastic way of honing my analytical skills. Working on a 60-page report whilst being coached by elite academics and researchers at the University of Southampton was a fantastic experience. The "Care Life Cycle" research programme, which ran from 2010 to 2015, was based at the.