Well-Being and Extended Working Life

Tindara Addabbo (University of Modena & Reggio Emilia) is Full Professor of Economic Policy and coordinator of the Doctoral Research Course in Labour, Development and Innovation at the Department of Economics Marco Biagi. She publishes on the gender impact of public and social policies, employment and wage discrimination by gender, income distribution, well-being, quality of work.

Patricia Carney (Health Service Executive) is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Public Health HSE Midlands. She publishes on the impacts of informal care for older people on different factors of well-being, determinants of health inequalities, health and well-being in dementia and the lifecourse.

Aine Ni Leime (Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at the National University of Ireland Galway) is a senior researcher and former Chairperson of COST Action IS1409 Gender and Health Implications of Extended Working Life in Western Countries (2015-2019). Her recent publications focus on gender, older workers, retirement and extended working life.

Jeroen Spijker (Centre d'Estudis Demografics-CED, Spain) is a "Ramon y Cajal-I3" Research Fellow. He obtained a BA in 1994 in Sociology and Human Geography from Massey University, New Zealand and a Master in 1997 and PhD in 2004 in Spatial Sciences (specialisation Demography) from Groningen University, the Netherlands. He has published on a wide range of topics in the field of demography, including population ageing, elderly care, family formation after divorce and widowhood and how the recent economic crisis in Catalonia and Spain has affected the health of the 50+.

Sinisa Zrinscak (University of Zagreb) is full Professor and Head of the Chair of Sociology at the Faculty of Law. Previously, he taught Comparative and European Social Policy at the Department of Social Work (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb). He publishes mainly on religious and social policy changes in post-communism, Europeanisation, and gender.