Short presentation

 I am an associate professor in ethnology and research ageing and the meaning of age in relation to how we interact and categorise each other. I particularly focus on senior working life, retirement transitions, lifelong learning and ageism. 

Retirement is one of life's important transitions, where people change their everyday life substantially, and reflect on identity, future, past, death and life. Their everyday rhythms and perspectives change. And our ways of retiring change. Today, reitrement is rarely a point in time, but rather a process.

I have a ph.d. about active ageing from the Centre for Healthy Ageing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen. I am engaged in the establishment of the Copenhagen Centre for Health Research in the Humanities (CoRe) at the ethnology department of the SAXO-Institute.

Primary fields of research

• Retirement
• Retirement transitions
• Senior worklife
• Ageism
• Mental health
• Cultural analysis
• Ageing
• Active ageing
• Age measurements
• Co-creation

Current research

I lead the projects 'Competence development 55+* and 'Senior practice - mental health late in the worklife'. I am also writing a book on the new old people and ageism, and am developing competence development activities for seniors. 

Knowledge of languages

Danish, english, spanish

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