„Studying Older People’s views of the Age-Friendliness of their Urban Communities: The Role of Standardized Tools and the Importance of the Co-creation Approach“

Lecture by Dr. Loredana Ivan from the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (Bucharest, Romania)

Friday, December 6 2024 | from 10:00 | HS U-17 + Online (  MS Teams Link) | Department of Sociology and Human Geography| Rudolfskai 42 | 5020 Salzburg

 Loredana Ivan is a Professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Communication Department, Bucharest, Romania. She has a PhD in Sociology and a post-doctorate in Social Psychology. She was the chair of ENAS European Network of Aging Studies) between 2019 and 2022. Her areas of interest include Interpersonal Communication mediated by Technology; Fake News & Generations; Family Communication, and Ageism. She has led some special issues in the aging and communication technology area: (2023) AI in the Everyday Life of Older Adults: Panacea or Pandora’s Box. Special Issue; (2023) Post-pandemic Digital Realities of Older Adults. Special Issue in Frontiers in Psychology; (2022) Fighting Fake News: A Generational Approach Loredana Ivan and Eugène Loos launched the concept of „visual ageism“, currently used in the literature on ageism. She is PI for City & Co. Older Adults Co-Creating a Sustainable AgeFriendly City (ENUTC EU grants, 2022-2024). Loredana Ivan is a co-applicant in the project Aging in Data (2021-2018) financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and PI the project Waste/Land/Futures: Intergenerational Relations in Places of Abandonment and Renewal across Europe (2024-2028) financed by Volkswagen Stiftung.