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Bethany Simmonds is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aberystwyth University's Department of Geography and Earth Sciences. She leads the university's Sociology Programme and serves as an External Examiner for Criminology and Sociology BSc at Swansea University (2023-24). She holds a visiting fellowship at the Centre of Death and Society (CDAS) at the University of Bath and is affiliated with WISERD and the Centre of Ageing and the Life Course (CALC) at the University of Liverpool.
Her research focuses on the sociology of ageing, risk, and health systems, with an emphasis on global and national structural influences such as neoliberalism and austerity policies. She has authored a monograph, Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care (2021), which examines systemic challenges in healthcare provision across the UK, Sweden, and Germany. Current projects explore feminist care ethics, necropolitical decision-making, and precarity capitalism's intergenerational impacts.
Her recent work includes editing a special issue on ageing and disability during the pandemic (2025) and presenting at conferences like the British Sociological Association Annual Conference. Key awards include the TRIF Strategic Fellowship in Health and Wellbeing (2018) and editorial roles in Frontiers in Sociology.
Research outputs highlight themes like hospital discharge delays for older adults (2020), physical activity narratives (2017), and palliative care coordination (2016). Collaborations span institutions across the UK and Europe, addressing health equity, policy reform, and interdisciplinary ageing studies.
