Gaël Brulé

Professor Gaël Brulé

Small Group Project 2021-22

Establishing the European Consortium of Social and Systematic Research on Positive Ageing

With Anna Rosa Donizzetti & Laurent Sovet & Vincenza Capone & Miriam Sang-Ah Park & Stephen Badham

With an ever increasing number of older adults in society, it is imperative we look for ways to promote positive ageing and better quality of life for older adults. More specifically, we aim to establish positive ageing as a more well-defined concept based on sociocultural and personal meaning associated, which we believe would lead to a more holistic and meaningful understanding than the biomedical explanations. We thus approach the topic of positive ageing with the view that it refers to maintaining a positive attitude, feeling good and keeping fit and healthy in old age.

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Areas of interest

Well-being Environmental Health Sustainability Health

Cohort

FG7

Biography

Gaël is an intellectual nomad, navigating between natural sciences, social sciences and health sciences. He is interested in the concept of living well in a broad sense, at the edge of physical and mental well-being, social and institutional conditions and ecosystems.

He is a professor of environmental health at the University of Geneva and a visiting professor at the universities of Neuchâtel and Strasbourg.

His research interests are numerous: sustainability, life cycle analysis, well-being, quality of interior spaces, health assessment scales, quality of life scales, well-being indicators, social indicators, future of work, epistemological dialogues, dissemination to wider audiences.

Biographical details correct as of 24.04.26