Label of Project Smart Age

Dr. Anna Wanka   

Project task

Measurement of (changes in) person-place-relationships

Expertise

Environmental gerontology, life course transitions, practice theories, ageing and technologies, age-friendly cities and communities, social inequalities, mixed-methods research

Biography

Dr.in Anna Wanka is a sociologist and critical gerontologist interested in the person-environment-relationships and the socio-material construction of age. She did her PhD at the University of Vienna in 2016 and has since worked at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main on her habilitation. Her areas of expertise comprise the social practices of doing age, life course transitions / retirement and the re/production of social inequalities across the life course, ageing and technologies, as well as age-friendly cities and communities. Theoretically Anna Wanka is specialized in practice theories, in which she was trained in the postgraduate programme “Sociology of Social Practices”, as well as through several international research fellowships. She is competent in both qualitative and quantitative methods and has high expertise in mixed-methods research. Currently she works on her in the DFG-funded interdisciplinary research training group “Doing Transitions”, exploring the multi-sited, multi-agential process of retiring as a constellation of social practices.

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