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Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt
Institut f\u00fcr Sozialp\u00e4dagogik und Erwachsenenbildung<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besucher*innenadresse:
Campus Westend, IKB-Geb\u00e4ude
4. OG, Raum 4500
Eschersheimer Landstra\u00dfe 121
60322 Frankfurt am Main<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postadresse:
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1
IKB-Geb\u00e4ude, Postfach 3
60323 Frankfurt am Main<\/p>\n\n\n\n

+49 (0)69 798-36393
wanka(at)em.uni-frankfurt.de
CV und Publikationen Anna Wanka<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dr.in<\/sup>Anna Wanka studied sociology and law at the University of Vienna, where she finished her PhD in sociology in 2016. From 2009 to 2016 she worked as a junior researcher in the research group \u201cFamily, Generations, Life Course, and Health\u201d at the Department of Sociology in Vienna. Since 2017 she is a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Wanka\u2019s areas of expertise comprise the social practices of \u2018doing age\u2019, life course transitions \/ retirement and the re\/production of social inequalities across the life course, ageing and technologies, age-friendly cities and communities, ageing migrants, and lifelong learning. Theoretically she is specialized in practice theories, in which she was trained in the postgraduate programme \u201cSociology of Social Practices\u201d, as well as through several international research fellowships. She is competent in both qualitative and quantitative methods and has high expertise in mixed-methods research. Anna Wanka is used to working in interdisciplinary and international projects, and has been involved in numerous successful national and project proposals. She has published more than 20 peer-reviewed international journal articles, 19 books chapters and three monographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the DFG-funded interdisciplinary research training group \u201cDoing Transitions\u201d, she explores the multi-sited, multi-agential process of retiring as a constellation of social practices in her project \u201cDoing Retiring – The Social Practices of Transiting into Retirement and the Distribution of Transitional Risks\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doing Retiring – The Social Practices of Transiting into Retirement and the Distribution of Transitional Risks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the ageing of the \u201cBaby Boomer\u201d cohort, more and more adults are transiting from working life into retirement. This transition is shaped by different institutions and societal discourses and entails risks and chances that are coped with in diverse ways by different groups of persons. The research project focuses on the social practices of retiring, asking: How is retiring being done? Methodologically the project follows 30 older adults in Germany throughout their process of retiring from before to three years after retirement. It follows a longitudinal mixed-methods design with a qualitative focus, combining episodic interviews, daily diaries and non-participant observations with quantitative secondary data analysis of German Time Use Data (GTUS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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