Ittay Mannheim, grantee of Virtual Mobility in Grant Period 1
Bio:
Ittay Mannheim is a Social & Organizational Psychologist and social Geron-technology Researcher on ageing, ageism and digital technology. Currently, Ittay is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Communication Studies and ABC multidisciplinary robotics lab at Ben Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, Israel, and Open Universiteit, Heerlen, the Netherlands. Ittay’s dissertation entitled “Ageism in the Use and Design of Digital Technology” was completed at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, as part of the ‘EuroAgeism’ Innovative Training Network. He has previously worked at the Division for Research on Aging at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, where his work focused on loneliness, early detection of dementia, and legal guardianship. Ittay’s current research focuses on further investigating the manifestations of ageism in the use and design of digital technology, particularly in the context of assistive-social robots, datafication processes, interventions to reduce ageism and policy implications. More so, Ittay’s research makes use of a mixed-methods approach, working in trans-disciplinary teams and investigating the use of participatory design to promote equality and social change.
Grant supported actions and initiatives:
Key product of Virtual Mobility Grant + testimonial on experience
This VMG facilitated the work on a scoping review of reviews on Participatory approaches with older adults in technology and innovation research. The VMG allowed me to take more initiative in the collaboration and motivated me to continue working on this project. In Doing so, together with many other members of our working group, we were able to advance this timely scoping review, and we are currently in advanced phases of analysing selected papers and hope to publish this soon. I would encourage others as well to take advantage of this fantastic grant opportunity to motivate and facilitate such research exchanges.