Dr. Malcolm Johnson

Malcolm Johnson is a Visiting Professor of Gerontology and End of Life Care at the University of Bath, and Emeritus Professor of Health and Social Policy at the University of Bristol. From 1984 to 1995 he was a Professor of Health and Social Welfare and the first Dean of the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University. His research interests include biographical studies, death and dying, and his major specialism, ageing and the lifespan. Of his fourteen books and over 160...See more

Malcolm Johnson is a Visiting Professor of Gerontology and End of Life Care at the University of Bath, and Emeritus Professor of Health and Social Policy at the University of Bristol. From 1984 to 1995 he was a Professor of Health and Social Welfare and the first Dean of the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University. His research interests include biographical studies, death and dying, and his major specialism, ageing and the lifespan. Of his fourteen books and over 160 monographs, chapters and articles, more than half relate to ageing. These include The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing (2005). He is a former Secretary of the British Society of Gerontology and Founding Editor of the Cambridge international journal Ageing and Society. See less