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is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Her research interests include family and the lifecourse, social inequalities, gender, feminisms, masculinities studies and social theory. She has published several articles in Portuguese and international journals as well as a number of books, including Plural masculinities: The remaking of the self in private life . She is working on other book projects and undertaking research on masculinities and gender. Currently, she coordinates the project TRANSRIGHTS Gender citizenship and sexual rights in Europe, financed by the European Research Council.
is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology and research fellow with Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University (USA). His research interests are focused on wealth and health inequalities across the lifecourse with particular emphasis on gender and race differences in physical and mental health. He has authored or co-authored over two dozen articles and book chapters across multiple research areas including mortality and disability, mental-health trajectories across age, variation in race and ethnic measurement and its social and health implications, and cross-national investigation of welfare state policies.
is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech University (USA). Her research focuses on the influences of cultural expectations and norms in the process of how social changes and intergenerational interactions influence older adults well-being. Her research also advocates for taking an extended family perspective in studying intergenerational interactions, especially in cultures where complicated interactions and social exchanges are carried out within an extended family.
is professor for health promotion and methods in social work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigsburg (Germany). She holds a first degree in social sciences and received her doctoral degree at the Department for Social Gerontology and Life Course Research at the Technical University of Dortmund. She is also chair of the section for behavioural and social gerontology in the German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Her main research interests are retirement planning, lifecourse perspectives on health and work, older workers, reconciliation of work and care, and social networks.
is a senior researcher in the Palmenia Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He has a broad experience on empirical social research, targeted on unemployment, poverty, and social exclusion. His most recent field of study is that of ageing research, in particular the longitudinal and cohort analysis of ageing. His research interests include quality of life, person-environment relations, and the use of social and health services in later life.
is professor emerita in social work at Ume University, Sweden and associate professor in sociology at Uppsala University. Her research interests are social care, social gerontology, gender, diversity and comparative social policy. Johansson has directed several research projects and has published together with researchers from the Scandinavian countries, China and Australia. She has also been chief editor of the Swedish Journal of Social Research , and is one of the authors of Gendered citizenship in Western Europe published by Policy Press.
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is assistant professor at the Department of Social Research at Helsinki University, Finland. She also is chair of the Research Network on Ageing in Europe. Her research focuses on population ageing, life-courses, social policies, and the 2008 economic crisis. She has presented her findings in more than 40 publications, and in 2011 she was named a Future Leader of Ageing Research in Europe.
is a senior lecturer, researcher and director of studies at the Department of Sociology, Ume University (Sweden). His research interests are among else social policy, social exclusion, poverty and the labour market. He is the PI of a research project on self-employment and member of a research project on welfare service provision in transition. He has also published research on white-collar crime.
is a professor of sociology and director of the Demography of Aging Training programme in the Population Research Institute at Duke University. His research interests are in demographic and statistical methods for studying lifecourse processes and in the relationship between socioeconomic status, race, and health in the US. He has published two books and numerous articles and book chapters in these and other areas. He is currently completing a book on handling missing data in social science research and investigating regional differences in health and mortality in the US.
is professor of political science at Concordia University and currently holds a Canada Research Chair in comparative public policy. He is also the scientific director for the Centre de recherche et dexpertise en grontologie sociale (CREGS). The CREGS regroups more than 50 experts and researchers originating from 14 different academic disciplines in social gerontology. His research focuses on socio-political and policy challenges related to an aging population. He has published extensively on multiple facets of pension policies. This includes comparative analyses on the pension reform process, pension outcomes, and the role of civil servants in pension reforms.
