Athina Vlachantoni

Professor Athina Vlachantoni is a faculty member at the University of Southampton within the Department of Gerontology. She serves as Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy and Admissions Tutor for Postgraduate Taught programs. Her affiliations include the Centre for Research on Ageing, ESRC Centre for Population Change, and Academy of Social Sciences (Fellow, 2022).

Research interests: Informal care provision and receipt, unmet social care needs, pension protection, health inequalities across the lifecourse, and ethnic diversity with accumulated advantages/disadvantages. She leads the Intergenerational flows of support in later life strand of the ESRC Connecting Generations program and investigates financial/emotional support between generations, focusing on minority ethnic communities' pension disparities and temperature extremes' health impacts on older populations.

• 2023-26: Principal Investigator for ESRC project on Inclusivity in pension protection among BME communities
• 2023-26: Co-Investigator for NERC project on Environmental solutions for vulnerable populations' health
• 2022-27: Co-Investigator for ESRC Connecting Generations program

Scientific awards include 2012 University of Southampton Vice-Chancellor's Awards (Research and Teaching), 2020 ESRC Impact Prize, and 2022 election to the Academy of Social Sciences. She chairs the ESRC Grants Assessment Panels and Wellcome Trust Social Sciences Advisory Board.

Teaching: Professor Vlachantoni delivers modules on the MSc programs in Gerontology and Social Research Methods, including UOSM2041 Emerging and Resilient India, GERO6022 Poverty and Social Protection, and RESM6305 Mixed Methods. She also teaches medicine students on aging-related topics.