Jim has a BSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex, an MSc in Social Work from the University of London, an MSc in Social Research, University of Surrey, and a PhD (Transitions and pathways to living alone: changes in living arrangements amongst older people in late modernity) from Keele University.

Jim’s projects with the Young Foundation include: A comparsion of the residential strategies among the baby boomer generations in Paris and London, financed by the French Ministry Transport and Urban Planning, 2005-2008; Adpataions to housing and environment among older people – a comparsion between England and France, financed by the French Ministry of Research, 2006-2008; Grandparenting (1999-2002) with Geoff Dench - the first national survey of the subject undertaken in Britain and one of the most extensive studies of three-generational family life carried out for several decades; MIRE: Forms of kinship solidarity: review of current European research (2002-2004), financed by the Mission Recherche Expérimentation (MIRE), a governmental research department within the French Ministry of Employment and Solidarity.

He has also collaborated with Keele University on diverse projects including extending working life (2006) and ‘Boomers and Beyond: Intergenerational consumption and the mature imagination, 2005-2007. Based in Paris, he collaborates with the research department of the Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Vieillesse and the Institut National des Etudes Démographiques. He is a member of the Working Group on Intergenerational Transfers for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.

Recent Publications

• Hillcoat-Nalletamby, S., Ogg, J., Renaut, S. and Bonvalet, C. (2010) Ageing Populations and Housing Needs: Comparing Strategic Policy Discourses in France and England. Social Policy & Administration 44, 7, pp. 808-826.

• Phillipson, C. and Ogg, J. (2010) Active ageing and universities: engaging older learners. London, Universities UK Research Report, 55 pp.

• Bonvalet, C. and Ogg, J. (2008) The housing situation and residential strategies of older people in France, Ageing and Society, 28(6) 753-777.

• Ogg, J. and Renaut, S. (2007) The influence of living arrangements, marital patterns and family configuration on employment rates among the 1945-1954 birth cohort - evidence from ten European countries European Journal of Ageing, 4(3): 155-169.

• Bonvalet, C. and Ogg, J. (2007) Ageing in inner cities: the residential dilemmas of the baby boomer generation, International Journal of Ageing, 2(2): 61-90.

• Ogg, J. (2006) A brief profile of the new British establishment. In Dench, G. The Rise and Rise of Meritocracy, Blackwell, Oxford.

• Ogg, J. and Renaut, S. (2006) The support of parents in old age by those born during 1945-1954 : a European perspective, Ageing and Society, 26(5) 723-743.

Jims most recent book, Baby Boomers: A Mobile Generation, with Catherine Bonvalet, follows the generation of people born immediately after the Second World War, "the baby boomers", who have witnessed major transformations in society as well as being at the vanguard of them. Many have challenged traditional attitudes in areas such as work and employment, and adopted new lifestyles driven by consumption and leisure. The baby boomers are a generation on the move, eager to reap the maximum benefits from consumer society, to travel and participate in leisure activities. Today, most of them have passed the midpoint of their lives. After having challenged and transformed many of the staging posts in the life course, how do the baby boomers reflect on their past experiences and what do they anticipate for their remaining years of life?