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Dr. Birgit Trukeschitz

Dr. Birgit Trukeschitz

Contact details
 

Phone: ++43/1/313 36-5877
email: birgit.trukeschitz@wu.ac.at
 

Office hours: by appointment only

Teaching (winter term 2023/24)

Current positions

Professional experience

  • April 2024: Habilitation in “Socioeconomics” (venia docendi)
    cumulative habilitation thesis: „Socioeconomic analyses of long-term care provision”

  • Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Economics of Aging, WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business (since June 2007)

  • April 2008 - März 2011: FLARE Fellow (European Post-Doc Programme FLARE - Future Leader of Ageing Research in Europe; ERA-AGE & Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

  • September 2005 - July 2010: Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Policy, Department of Economics until 12/2009; Department of Socio-economics since 1/2010 (WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business)

  • September 2001 - August 2005: Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy, Vienna University of Economics and BA

  • December 2000 - September 2001: Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Policy, Vienna University of Economics and BA

  • February 1998 - November 2000: Research Assistant at the Social Policy Unit, Vienna University of Economics and BADoctorate in Economics (Vienna University of Economics and BA)

  • Undergraduate studies in Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Visiting Researcher

  • April 2010 - June 2010: FLARE Fellowship, Visiting Research Fellow at DZA, German Centre of Gerontology, Berlin, Germany

  • April 2009 - September 2009: FLARE Fellowship, Visiting Research Fellow at PSSRU, University of Kent at Canterbury, England

  • September 2005 - Juni 2006: T.H. Marshall Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE Health & Social Care - PSSRU, today CPEC), England

Main areas of research

  • Digital technologies for long-term care & Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems:  user experience and effectiveness

  • Co-Creation methods for the joint design of digital technologies for long-term care

  • Social-care-related quality of life: effectiveness of long-term care service provision

  • Informal Care

Current projects

Awards and Honors

Publications

Presentations - Science to science

Presentations - Science to professionals/public