PhD Tanja Ahlin,

How do technologies shape elder care, especially when it is practiced at a distance? How do they influence what (health) care comes to mean and how it should be done to be considered good care? As an Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies researcher, I use ethnographic methods to explore how everyday digital and specialized health technologies participate in formal and informal elder care. In February 2020, I defended my PhD thesis on everyday digital technologies in elder care among Indian transnational families. I am currently a lecturer at UvA and Amsterdam Medical Center, teaching qualitative methods and social science theory. My doctoral research has been funded through the TransGlobalHealth Joint Degree program by the European Commission, and AISSR, University of Amsterdam. Previously, I obtained a MA in Health and Society in South Asia from Heidelberg University. Besides academic publications, my research has been presented in the Huffington Post, Madras Courier, and Vrij Nederland, and on websites such as Somatosphere and AllegraLab. Currently, I am working on a book project based on my PhD thesis, and I am also developing my new project on live and robot animals in elder care.