The 2016 Price Prize for best doctoral thesis has been awarded to Maria Pilar Rioseco Lopez for her thesis entitled ‘The role of social connectedness in the process of retirement’. Pilar received an APAI scholarship under the ARC Social Networks and Ageing Project (SNAP). Pilar’s supervisory panel were Professor Heather Booth, Associate Professor Rob Ackland and Dr Tim Windsor (Flinders University).

 (from left) Mahin Raissi, Professor Heather Booth, Cuc Hoang and Maria Pilar Rioseco Lopez (far right).