Carla Greubel, MA

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-greubel-4a22901b3/ Webpage: https://www.uu.nl/staff/CSGreubel?t=0

Carla Greubel is a Ph.D. candidate at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Age Studies, working at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. In her dissertation, she studies enactments of ‘good ageing’ in and across three different but interrelated contexts: (1) the European ageing and innovation policy discourse, (2) two digital innovation projects in the context of health and ageing (GATEKEEPER, a H2020 large-scale implementation pilot on smart living environments, and VinclesBCN, an initiative of the city of Barcelona promoting social connectedness), and (3) the everyday lives of older citizens participating in these projects in Italy, the UK and Spain. Drawing on empirical ethics of care, in particular, she investigates how among different ideas about and practices of living a ‘good’ ageing life, some come to (temporarily) matter more while others are marginalised. Her methods include policy discourse analysis, qualitative interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork. Together with her team at Utrecht University, Carla is responsible for coordinating the co-creation line of activities in the GATEKEEPER project, including the design and preparation of two cycles of stakeholder engagement workshops organized in nine pilot regions across seven European countries. Carla is the secretary of the Socio-gerontechnology Network.