Tanja Ahlin is an Anthropologist of Health and Technology, and a Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar with a PhD from the University of Amsterdam.

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Tanja Ahlin is an Anthropologist of Health and Technology, and a Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar with a PhD from the University of Amsterdam.

As a recipient of the Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), she is investigating technology acceptance and resistance through the case of animal-shaped social robots in elder care. Her project, Paw Support, aims to support personalized long-term care, making space for new technologies as well as non-technological solutions to good care in times of scarce resources.

Previously, Tanja was a post-doctoral researcher in the 'Human Factor in New Technologies' at Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, UvA. She is affiliated with the Center for Digital Anthropology, UCL, and is a Research Fellow the Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development (AIGHD).

She also has a Master's degree in Health and Society in South Asia from Heidelberg University (Germany), a Bachelors of Anthropology from Athabasca University (Canada) and a Bachelors of Translation (English, French, Slovenian) from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).

Tanja's book Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives (Rutgers University Press, 2023) explores how digital technologies shape family care at a distance when living in the same place is not the most feasible option.

Read more about Tanja Ahlin on her website. 

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