The Leiden University newsletter published piece on my Veni research which I have recently started with: "From toy cats that purr to robot dogs that bark: what do such technologies mean for older people, healthcare providers and family members? A Dutch Research Council (NWO) Veni grant is enabling anthropologist Tanja Ahlin to investigate how animal-shaped robots can contribute to care for older people in the Netherlands." Read more here.

When I first introduced the notion of “field events” with my co-author Fangfang Li (Ahlin and Li 2019), digital technologies were becoming more common in ethnographic fieldwork, but they were still not the most popular. Only one year after the initial publication, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic forced ethnographers around the world to incorporate these devices into their methodology as funding agencies required the suspension of face-to-face fieldwork (Cabalquinto and Ahl

The conversation explores the impact of robots on mental health and their role in healthcare. Anthropologist Tanja Ahlin and Faces of digital health host Tjasa Zajc discuss the fascination with robots, the ambiguous identity of robots, their use in elder care, the challenges of integrating robots, the global perspective on robots, and the misconceptions and realities of robots.

An essay , based on my book Calling Family , has been published in Sapiens - Anthropology Magazine.

It's October 4 - Happy World Animal Day! Here's a video where I talk about my research on different kinds of animals - from pets to...

In 2022, I contributed to Robert Weisman's article The Netherlands makes aging and long-term care a priority. In the US, it’s a different...

In 2015, Katerina Vidner Ferkov interviewed me about my work as an anthropologist for the Sunday edition of the largest Slovenian...

In 2014, I contributed to two articles in Vrij Nederland, a Dutch weekly magazine, considered to be one of the four most influential...

In my article for the Indian edition of The Huffington Post, The Gift of Panties: Protecting One Woman at a Time, I write about an Indian...

My article How Indians Who Migrate Abroad Take Care of Their Ageing Parents, published in the Indian journal Madras Courier (2019).