22nd Ellen Gee Memorial Lecture

Simon Fraser University's Gloria Gutman Gerontology Research Centre invites you to the 22nd Ellen Gee Memorial Lecture featuring Shuzhuo Li. This event will take place on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, from 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm (PCT) at SFU's Harbour Centre Campus in room HC 1700 (Labatt Hall).

Big Data, LLMs, and Frontier Research in Aging and Mobility—Cases in Aging, Global Talents, and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Research

Rapid growth in large-scale scientific and social data is opening new possibilities for understanding aging, mobility, and social change. This lecture explores how big data and large language models (LLMs) can help researchers examine long-term changes, trajectories, networks, and emerging research frontiers. Drawing on large-scale Scopus publication data, the first case maps the evolution of global aging research, including shifts in major topics, emerging frontiers, the changing geography of knowledge production, and China’s participation in the international research landscape. The lecture then turns to different forms of mobility. Research on global scientific talent mobility traces researchers across countries and institutions to understand changing career trajectories, while related work on knowledge mobility examines how ideas, research topics, and collaborative networks move across institutional and national boundaries. A further case extends the discussion to intergenerational occupational mobility, examining how changing occupational structures and labor-market conditions shape opportunities across generations and over the life course. Together, these cases connect the evolution of knowledge with the movement of people and occupational opportunities, illustrating new ways of studying aging and mobility through trajectories, networks, and changing social structures.

Shuzhuo Li, PhD, is currently University Distinguished Professor of Population and Development Policy Studies, Director of the Research Center for Aging and Health at Xi’an Jiaotong University, and consulting professor at the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University. His research is focused on population and social development as well as public policies in contemporary transitional China.

The 2026 Seniors Leadership Award will be presented during the reception. You are invited to submit a letter nominating a person aged 65+ in the community or from an organization who has contributed time and experience providing exemplary voluntary service. Seniors eligible for nomination must presently reside in the Province of British Columbia. This award is also open to seniors organizations as a whole that perform community voluntary service. The nomination deadline is November 3, 2026.

Nomination procedures: https://www.sfu.ca/grc/about/gggrc-community-achievement-awards.html

If you have questions regarding this event, please email [email protected].

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SFU Harbour Centre - Room 1700 Labatt Hall, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada

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