The National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre (NSPAC) is committed to initiating, developing and supporting innovative and high quality research that improves our understanding of the social, economic and cultural factors which influence the experience of ageing.
As of April 2011, PAC has developed a new publication format and schedule, as shown below. The purpose of changing the publication outputs is to:
1. Increase the quality of the current short report publications. Although the target audience will be similar to the old format, we hope to make the reports more methodologically sound but also maintain readability through the PAC Research Report Series.
2. Through the PAC Monograph Series, offering a more substantive research output – necessary to establish ourselves as a leading ageing research institute
Length
Published
Purpose
Audience
PAC Facts & Figures Series (NEW)
1-2 pages
Web & email
Brief overview of up to date statistics important to ageing research.
All
PAC Research Report Series (EXISTING)
7,000 words
Web & email
Hardcopy
Current ‘Short Report’ format, but including a technical appendix.
NSA members, general community, government
PAC Research Monograph Series (NEW)
10,000 words +
Web & email
Hardcopy
Longer, academic style report on a substantive issue including technical appendices.