The project has established an advisory group, with members drawn from users of our research and including older people themselves. The advisory group meets twice yearly.

Membership of the Advisory Group:

Emeritus Professor Alan Newell (Chair)

School of Computing, University of Dundee

Professor Leela Damodaran (Sus-IT Principal Investigator)

Head of e-Society Research Group, Research School of Informatics, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University

Wendy Olphert (Sus-IT Lead Co-Investigator)

Senior Research Fellow, Research School of Informatics, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University

Angela Barnes

Northern Committees Co-ordinator, Age UK

Professor James Goodwin

Head of Research, Age UK

Harry Martin

Representing older people participating in the research, Sutton Bonington Community Groups, Leicestershire

Anthony Meehan

Senior Lecturer in Computing, The Open University

David Mortimer

Head of Digital Inclusion, Age UK

Steve Phipps

Director of Partnerships & Customer Services, Charnwood Borough Council

Ian Retson

Leicestershire CareOnLine Manager, Leicestershire County Council

Barbara Shillabeer

Member of NDA's OPRG (The Older People's Reference Group)

John Williams

Age UK

International members:

Heike Boeltzig

Research Associate, Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI), University of Massachusetts

Professor Alan France

Department of Sociology, the University of Auckland, New Zealand

Sri Kurniawan

Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz

Dr Wendy Young

Research Chair in Healthy Aging, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

In addition, the project participants are now able to benefit from a valuable group of older people known as the 'Critical Friends' who are available to offer their comments and feedback on the work that the Sus-IT project is doing. The friends are made up of volunteers from the older people who have participated in earlier stages of the research, and they have already had input into the development of our digital engagement questionnaire, some of our publicity materials, and into the plans for our research into older people's ICT learning and education needs and strategies.