New publication out - Special Issue on Cognitive Aging

Two years in the making, and now finally out. Together with Dr. Giulia Tattarini and Dr. Damiano Uccheddu, Ariane has guest-edited a special issue in Social Science in Medicine titled "Understanding cognitive ageing: individuals, institutions, and inequalities". The special issue aims at shedding a sociological perspective on an increasing public health and societal challenge and highlights the risk and protective factors for cognitive functioning in later life across various levels and domains. In their editorial Giulia, Damiano and Ariane summarize the key insights and provide an outlook an future research areas and emerging frontiers.

The special issue features:

• 39 articles from Europe, the United States, China, Chile, Mexico, India, and Vietnam

• Individual country studies and cross-country comparisons, including one meta-analysis

• Individual factors from childhood, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and later life stages

• Inequalities by gender, social class and caste, race/skin color, and migration background

• Contextual factors such as educational reforms, neighborhoods, transport infrastructure, healthcare systems, welfare states, and digitalization

A Summer Update from Our Team

As summer is in full swing, our team has a small update to share.

After saying goodbye to two of our student assistants in our last post, we're happy to welcome a new student assistant, Saioa Miguéliz Hausotter, to the team. She joined the project in May and is pursuing a B.A. in Sociology at the University of Konstanz.

To bring a little summer feeling to the blog, our team is sharing their favorite places to cool off on a hot day:

The University of Konstanz beach

The sunset at the beach

Herosé-Park in Konstanz

Goodbye and thank you!

Janina Reinmuth and Yeganeh Moussavi have both successfully passed their Master's theses at the University of Konstanz and have moved on to new positions.

Yeganeh stays in Konstanz and works at the ZfP Reichenau as a Project Coordinator in a project on mental health among refugees (BW schützt).

Janina is doing her PhD at the Centre for Preventive Medicine and Digital Health (CPD) at the Medical Faculty Mannheim (UMM) of Heidelberg University.

We would like to thank both for their work in the team and the nice excursions and hikes. Congratulations and all the best for your next career steps!