Dr Tine Buffel

Dr. Tine Buffel is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, where she directs the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG), an interdisciplinary group bringing together scholars from sociology, geography, anthropology, health sciences, political science, and architecture.

Dr. Buffel’s research aims to identify new ways of responding to the opportunities and challenges associated with population ageing in urban environments. Issues of inequality, social justice, and underlying processes of spatial and social exclusion have been the primary focus of her research activities. Much of her work has involved participatory and co-production methodologies, building on partnerships with older people, local authorities, voluntary organisations and community groups, to study and address equity and justice issues.

She is best known for her work on age-friendly cities and communities, contributing a critical lens to the study of urban ageing and assisting the development of evidence-based policies to improve the experience of ageing in cities.