Dr.in Anna Wanka is a sociologist and critical gerontologist interested in the social construction of age. 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, age-friendly cities and communities, ageing migrants, and lifelong learning. 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. Anna Wanka is used to working in interdisciplinary and international projects and has been involved in numerous successful national and project proposals. Currently, she works on her habilitation (docent) 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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Anna Wanka, PhD
University of Frankfurt
Publications
Gallistl, V. & Wanka, A. (2019): Representing the “older end user”? Challenging the role of social scientists in the field of “active and assisted living.” International Journal of Care and Caring, 3 (1): 123 – 128. https://doi.org./10.1332/239788218X15411705865226.
Wanka, A. & Gallistl, V. (2018): Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging with Technology. Frontiers in Sociology 3: 6. Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00006.
Cozza, M. & Wanka, A. (2024). Special issue: The growing older of humans, nonhumans, and more-than-humans, Journal of Aging Studies. https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/107VSXNW1S8
Gallistl, V. & Wanka, A. (2023): Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life. Journal of Aging Studies 67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101182
Wanka A. & Gallistl, V. (2018): Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging with Technology. Frontiers in Sociology 3: 6. Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00006
Gallistl V. & Wanka, A. (2019): Representing the “older end user”? Challenging the role of social scientists in the field of “active and assisted living.” International Journal of Care and Caring, 3 (1): 123 – 128. https://doi.org./10.1332/239788218X15411705865226
Wanka, A. (2019): Change Ahead—Emerging Life-Course Transitions as Practical Accomplishments of Growing Old(er). Frontiers in Sociology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00045