I am an interdisciplinary social scientist whose main interest is studying the relation between ageing and technology. I currently lead the Active Ageing research group at Avans University of Applied Sciences. In the past I have worked on the relation between ageing and robotics, nanotechnology, telecare and sustainable heating technologies. Along with the researchers of the Active Ageing “kenniskring”, I am currently involved in several projects which are all related to (practical) issues around innovations for older people. As such the Active Ageing research group serves as a hub between research, teaching and organisations and companies involved in care and innovation for older people. Questions that interest me are for instance how the ageing process is constructed and mediated by technologies; How gerontechnologies are designed and which (implicit) ideas are written into these technologies in this process; How older people respond to these technologies; How they (creatively) use or do not use these technologies and what practices and identities result from such (non-)use; How the needs, wants, roles and identities of older people can be understood in relation to technological design; And how we can translate such knowledge into various formats which are both useful and attractive for a design audience and for audiences of (future) professional care givers.
Recent publications
Bergschöld, J.M., Neven, L. and Peine, A. (2020), DIY gerontechnology: circumventing mismatched technologies and bureaucratic procedure by creating care technologies of one’s own. Sociol Health Illn, 42: 232-246. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13012
Peine, A., Neven, L. (2018) From Intervention to Co-constitution: New Directions in Theorizing about Aging and Technology. The Gerontologist. 2018-5. (online ahead of print).
Neven, L., Peine, A. (2017) From Triple Win to Triple Sin: How a Problematic Future Discourse is Shaping the Way People Age with Technology. Societies, 7-3, 26.