Welcome...

I am Associate Professor in Gerontology and currently acting Director at the Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA) at Swansea University. I have a particular interest in improving public policy and practice around the built environment and transportation taking into account an ageing population requiring sustainable and environmental contexts, including road user safety in later life, giving-up driving and creating age friendly neighbourhoods and communities. I have worked on projects as PI or Co-I totalling over £8m. I have authored over 30 journal articles, 17 book chapters and have 4 books on these topics. I am co-director of the £3m research programme, Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research, bringing together researchers across Wales working in ageing research, along with policy, practice and organisations working in the field. I am an Executive committee member of the British Society of Gerontology (BSG). I co-lead the Special Interest Group at BSG on mobilities and transport in later life and using this to generate network and interest in this field from within and outside academia. I am also a member of the International Association of Applied Psychology and am a partner of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. My research has involved several invited International and national presentations at conferences and invited presentations to the House of Commons and House of Lords. I am keen to get my research out into the real world and work closely with UK, Welsh and local government, charities and third sector organisations and am keen on public engagement. I have presented at two British Science Festivals (2008 and 2016) and written many articles for the general public.  I have appeared on BBC TV and international radio stations on a variety of mobility and built environment topics and appear regularly on BBC Three Counties radio discussing older people’s issues. I am an Associate Editor for Journal of Transport & Health and on the editorial board for Ageing and Society and Research in Transportation Business & Management journals.  I am a panel member for the United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).   I am the University’s environment lead for the REF UoA20 and am Engagement and Societal Impact lead for the College of Human and Health Sciences.  I completed my PhD at the Transportation Research Group back in 2004 at the University of Southampton exploring driver behaviour and attitudes to risk and spent some scary moments collecting in-vehicle data with young male “boy racer” drivers. I was delighted to be a runner-up in Swansea University's Research as Art  competition 2013 and 2016. 
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 I have 4 recent books published:
Editor of Transport, Travel and Later Life for Emerald Publishing (2018).
Co-editor (with Hannah Marston and Shannon Freeman) of Mobile e-health for Springer (2017)
Co-editor (with Samuel Nyman et al.) of The Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity Promotion for Palgrave Macmillan.(2018)
Co-editor (with Angela Curl) of Geographies of Transport and Ageing for Palgrave Macmillan (2018)

I am an avid fan of Gosport Borough Football Club (and since moving to Wales, I follow the ups and downs of Port Talbot Town and Llanelli Town) and enjoy progressive rock music. I like living by the sea. I enjoy running, quite slowly, and have run four half marathons (PB 1h 51) and completed three 10km races (PB 49mins). I was delighted to be a runner-up in Swansea University's Research as Art competition 2013 and 2016.  

I am not Charlie Musselwhite the blues star! 

I have begun my own blog - so see it here.

My full academic CV is here

​Contact:
Email: Charliemuss@gmail.com
C.B.A.Musselwhite@Swansea.ac.uk

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