Selected by Graham Crow, Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, for his Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Managing career endings and the transition to retirement: the case of academics’.

These images have been chosen to be included as part of the interviews in the project, but visitors to the project website are invited to consider which images resonate with their own perspectives on retirement. The images come from the free-to-use source Pexels and the individual photographers are acknowledged with thanks.