Dr Andy Ward is a leading national researcher working in Retirement Living. His work is focussed on Retirement Living residents and is affiliated with the Retirement Living Council of Australia and major industry operators. He is the founder and lead of the Australian Retirement Living Lab (ARLL) which is the only Australian lab working exclusively on research in retirement living. The ARLL is the home of the annual national retirement living resident economic survey and Creative Conversations, the largest qualitative study of retirement living residents in Australia's history.
Dr Ward is also a multi gold recording winning producer, songwriter and recording artists. His music research is internationally recognised and he leads the Music program at UniSC, one of Australia's newest and most industrially recognised music programs.