Contact Details:

Room 2005
Top Floor
Irish Centre for Social Gerontology
Institute for Lifecourse & Society
Upper Newcastle Road
NUI Galway

Phone:   091 495461

Biography

Arianna received her PhD in Ageing and Social Change in 2021 at Linköping University in Sweden with a thesis titled ‘A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies’. In December 2021 (- present), she got her position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Division Ageing and Social Change (Linköping University, Sweden), and, since March 2022 (- present), she is postdoctoral researcher at the Irish Centre of Social Gerontology (ICSG) at University of Galway. Between 2013 and 2015, she worked at the Centre for Socio-Economic Research on Ageing at the National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (INRCA) in Italy.

Arianna’s current research lies within the field of social gerontology, particularly at the intersection of ageing, exclusion, inequality and digitalisation. She mostly uses quantitative methods in her research. She is currently working on the Virtual-Engage project and on the Service Involvement & Lived Experience project.

She is founding member and newsletter editor of the international scientific network Socio-Gerontechnology. She is a management committee member within the NET4AGE-Friendly COST Action (CA 19136). In 2019, she was nominated as a representative of the ageing research conducted at Linköping University for the Sweden-Japan cooperation project MIRAI. She is alumnus of the Swedish National Graduate School on Ageing and Health (SWEAH) and was an early-career member of the COST Action Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion Through Collaborations in Research and Policy (ROSEnet).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Ageing, social exclusion, inequality, digitalisation

PROJECTS

Virtual-Engage project – https://icsg.ie/our-projects/virtual-engage-2/

Service Involvement & Lived Experience project – https://icsg.ie/our-projects/service-involvement-and-lived-experience-2/

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Papers in journals

Komp-Leukkunen, K., Poli, A., Hellevik, T., Herlofson, K., Heuer, A., Norum, R., Solem, P. E., Khan, J., Rantanen, V., & Motel-Klingebiel, A. (2022). Older Workers in Digitalizing Workplaces: A Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Aging and Social Change, 12(2), 37-59. doi:10.18848/2576-5310/CGP/v12i02/37-59

Poli, A., Kelfve, S., Berg, K., & Motel-Klingebiel, A. (2021) Old-Age Diversity is Underrepresented in Digital Health Research: Findings from the Evaluation of a Mobile Phone System for Post-Operative Progress Monitoring in Sweden. Ageing & Society, 1-23. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X21001641

Poli A, Kelfve S, Klompstra L, Strömberg A, Jaarsma T, Motel-Klingebiel A. (2020) Prediction of (Non)Participation of Older People in Digital Health Research: Exergame Intervention Study. J Med Internet Res, 22(6), e17884.

Allemann, H. & Poli, A. (2020). Designing and evaluating information and communication technology-based interventions? Be aware of the needs of older people. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 19(5), 370-2. doi:10.1177/1474515119897398.

Poli, A., Kelfve, S. & Motel-Klingebiel, A. (2019). A research tool for measuring non-participation of older people in research on digital health. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 1487. doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7830-x.

Lamura, G., Di Rosa, M., Papa, R., Poli, A., Barbabella, F. (2019). Implications of the use of migrant care work and of web-based services on family caregivers’ health. International Journal of Care and Caring, 3(1), 97-116. doi: 10.1332/239788218X15411704575048.

Barbabella, F., Poli, A., & Kostadis, I. (2019). Socio-economic status and social participation as predictors of quality of life of older adults with functional limitations: a cross-sectional study in Italy and Greece. Retraité et Société, 81(1), 41-64.

Barbabella, F., Poli, A., Hanson, E., Andréasson, F., Salzmann, B., Döhner, H., Papa, R., Efthymiou, A., Valenza, S., Pelliccioni, G., & Lamura, G. (2018). Usage and usability of a web-based program for family caregivers of older people in three European countries: a mixed-methods evaluation. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 36(5), 232-41. doi: 10.1097/cin.0000000000000422.

Lamura, G., Poli, A., Yghemonos, S., Barbabella, F. (2017). InformCare: the European information hub on family care. International Journal of Care and Caring, 1(3), 409-13. doi: 10.1332/239788217X15018371295074.

Barbabella, F., Poli, A., Papa, R., Lancioni, C., Andréasson, F., Salzmann, B., Döhner, H., Hanson, E., Pelliccioni, G., Efthymiou, A., & Lamura, G. (2016). A web-based psychosocial intervention for family caregivers of older people: results from a mixed-methods study in three European countries. JMIR Research Protocols, 5(4):e196. doi:10.2196/resprot.5847.

Book chapters

Poli, A., Barbabella, F., & Kostakis, I (2021) Receiving Care from Digital Health Services: Causes and Implications of Old-Age Exclusion. In K. Walsh, T. Scharf, A. Wanka, S. Van Regenmortel (Eds.), Social Exclusion in Ageing Societies: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives (pp. 169-181). Cham: Springer.

Di Rosa, M., Barbabella, F., Poli, A., Santini, S. & Lamura, G. (2018). Migrant care workers in Italian households: recent trends and future perspectives. In D. Pilling, K. Christensen (Eds.), Ashgate Research Companion to Care Work Around the World. (pp. 142-155). London: Ashgate.

Barbabella, F., Poli, A., Santini, S. & Lamura, G. (2018). Informal caregivers: the role of spouses, adult children, neighbours, volunteers. In T. Boll, D. Ferring & J. Valsiner (Eds.), Cultures of care: Handbook of cultural geropsychology. (pp. 193-212). Charlotte (NY): Information Age Publishing.

Books

Poli, A. (2021). A Divided Old Age through Research on Digital Technologies. Linköping University Electronic Press: Linköping. doi: 10.3384/9789179290467. (PhD thesis)