Victor Marshall
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Research
Dr. Marshall's research interests and publications are in the area of aging and the life course with particular attention to older workers, the changing nature of the retirement transition, work and health, public policy, and social theory. He has been the principal investigator of more than 30 grants in various aspects of aging, including transitions from work to retirement as a social determinant of health, and human resource management in relation to the aging of the labor force. He is currently director of the US team in the Workforce Aging in the New Economy project (US-WANE), which studies aging workforce issues in the information technology sector in the US, Canada, Australia and the European Union. He has also conducted research for Veterans Affairs Canada concerning the working careers of discharged Canadian Forces personnel. He serves on the editorial boards of four journals.
Recent Publications
Recent Books
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Carol D. Ryff and Victor W. Marshall (Eds.) (1999). The Self and Society in Aging Processes. New York: Springer. 491 pp.
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Victor W. Marshall, Walter Heinz, Helga Krueger and Anil Verma (Eds.) (2001). Restructuring Work and the Life Course. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 544 pp.
- Walter Heinz and Victor W. Marshall (Eds.) (2003), Social Dynamics of the Life Course: Sequences, Institutions and Interrelations. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. 306 pp.
Recent Journal Articles
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V.W. Marshall and M. Altpeter (2005). Cultivating social work leadership in health promotion and aging: Strategies for active aging interventions. Health & Social Work 30 (2): 135-144.
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The Healthy Aging Research Network Writing Group (named co-author). The Prevention Research Centers Healthy Aging Research Network. Prev Chronic Dis [serial online] 2006 Jan [date cited]. Available from: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2006/jan/05_0054.htm
- Prohaska, T., E. Belansky, B. Belza, D. Buchner, V. Marshall, K. McTigue, W. Satariano, & S. Wilcox (In Press). Physical activity, public health, and aging: Critical issues and research priorities. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.
Recent Other Articles and Book Chapters
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Victor W. Marshall and Philip Taylor (2005). Restructuring the life course: Work and retirement. The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Malcolm Johnson, Vern L. Bengtson, et al. (Eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University of Press, pp. 572-582.
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Victor W. Marshall. Agency, events, and structure at the end of the life course (2005). Pp. 57-91 in R. Levy, P. Ghisletta, M-M LeGoff, D. Spini and E. Widmer (Eds.), Advances in Life Course Research, 10. New York: Elsevier.
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Victor W. Marshall. Spence, D.L. Biographical article for George Ritzer (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell (in press).
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Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. Clarke (in press). Theories of Aging: Social. Invited article for J. Birren, Ed., Encyclopedia of Gerontology, 2 nd Edition.
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Victor W. Marshall and Christopher Kelly (in press). Politics of Aging. Invited article for J. Birren (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Gerontology, 2 nd Edition.
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Y. He, A. Colantonio and V. W. Marshall. (2006) The relationships between career instability and health condition in older workers: A longitudinal data analysis of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. In Leroy Stone (Ed.), New Frontiers of Research on Retirement. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, pp. 321-342.
See Dr Marshall's full CV for more publications. A number of his papers are online via AGELIB.
