Are you interested in research to understand housing inequality, and motivated to find governance approaches which can support older adult health and wellbeing?
We are looking for a PhD candidate to take part in the research project ‘Housing Governance for Healthy Aging,’ led by Principal Investigators Dr. Sarah Mawhorter and Dr. Sara Özoğul together with Prof. Louise Meijering.
This project investigates the role of housing governance–at the local and national levels–in supporting healthy aging, whether aging in place or transitioning to new living situations such as retirement communities or a form of assisted living. In a comparative framework, the project involves using mixed methods to analyse housing governance regimes and outcomes for older adult housing and health across countries within Europe, and states within the U.S., then to assess how these play out at the local level. The project involves three main objectives:
- Develop a typology of housing governance regimes related to older adult housing, using qualitative methods to observe housing regulations and programs across European countries and U.S. states.
- Assess the outcomes for older adult housing, health, and wellbeing, using quantitative methods to analyse secondary survey data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) in the US.
- Examine how housing governance for older adults plays out at the local level.
For more information, see the full vacancy here: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B2EP
