Professor Gilroys work explores how home, and neighbourhood support quality of life in later life. As an academic situated in Planning, she is interested in the transactional relationship between people and their place that embraces how people individually and collectively may influence their environments. Her work frequently uses an everyday life framework to explore strategies for survival or flourishing. Rose Gilroy has considerable research experience in qualitative and participatory methods: interviews, focus groups, photo elicitation and visioning. She is committed to change and much of my work is action oriented, and she has founded the Future Homes Alliance Community Interest Company.