Elisabeth Schroeder-Butterfill is Associate Professor in Gerontology and Head of Department of Gerontology at the University of Southampton, UK. She studied at the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her academic background combines anthropology and demography. She has conducted research on older people’s support and care networks, the impact of migration on older people’s support, the sources of vulnerability in later life. Most of her research focuses on old age in Indonesia. She recently led a UKRI-funded comparative project on the Care Networks of Older People in Indonesia, involving ethnographic research in five communities. Elisabeth is on the editorial board for Ageing and Society and Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology.
