Projects
Paw Support: Animal-Shaped
Social Robots in Elder Care
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS), Leiden University
Veni grant, Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Aging populations are straining healthcare systems worldwide. This study uses ethnographic methods to examine how animal-shaped social robots fit into Dutch elder care, exploring their role in daily practices and how people accept or resist them. The project aims to offer guidelines for including social robots in personalised long-term care policy and to also keep space for non-technological solutions where needed.
AISSR, University of Amsterdam
How can anthropology contribute to the understanding and better development of new technologies - social robots, algorithms and data? As a post-doctoral researcher, recipient of the Dutch government funding on "Human Factor of New Technologies," I explore these questions in the interdisciplinary environment of the Faculty of Social Sciences, UvA.
AISSR, University of Amsterdam
What happens to care for aging parents when their children migrate? Based on ethnographic fieldwork with families from Kerala, India, I explore how digital technologies shape family care at a distance. Read more in Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives
(August 2023, Rutgers University Press).
AISSR, University of Amsterdam
As a collaborator on the project Meer dan doof (More than Deaf), led by Dr. Anja Hiddinga, I explored how technologies actively influence how deaf and heard-of-hearing youngsters relate to other people and establish feelings of belonging.
Disordered eating
in India
Heidelberg University
In North India, during my internship at a health-oriented NGO in 2010, I met a young woman who had trouble with eating. How could a clash between mainstream gender expectations and development impact women's mental health?
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