Dr. Heidi Kaspar
Profile

Dr. Heidi Kaspar Co-Leiterin Part. Gesundheitsversorgung
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Contact hours
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday morning -
Address
Berner Fachhochschule
School of Health Professions
Koordination FED Gesundheit
Murtenstrasse 10
3008 Bern
Activities
Focus areas
participatory research
caring communities
living labs
care relations, care work
feminist research
aging in place
global healthcare markets, patient mobilities
transnationalism
CV
Professional experience
- 10/2020-12/2020 Lead Programme Ageing at Home Careum School of Health
- 03/2016-09/2020 Senior researcher in the team Ageing at Home Careum School of Health
- 07/2011-06/2016 Senior researcher in the team Economic Geography University of Zurich
- 07/2002-06/2011 Researcher in the team Economic Geography and the National Center for Competence in ResearchNorth-South University of Zurich
- 02/2000-10/2002 Assistant at the Office for Gender Equality University of Zurich
- 1998-2002 Nurse intern, stand-by nurse assistant, household help Amalie-Widmer Nursing Home (Horgen, Oeggisbüel Home for the Elderly (Thalwil), Pro Senectute Wolishofen
Education
- 2005-2011 Doctor in Science University of Zurich
- 1998-2004 Diploma in Geography and Social and Economic History University of Zurich
Projects
Other projects
Global pathways and intimate trajectories to Indian traditional medicine, Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme for the Social Sciences (funded by the SERI, Bridging Grant, CHF 24’500), 2018.
National and International Medical Mobility, Networks and Markets: The Constitution of Medical Tourism in Delhi, India, with Prof. Sunita Reddy, JNU New Delhi Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme for the Social Sciences (funded by SERI, Seed Money Grant, call 2014, CHF 22’660), 2015-2018.
Publications
Memberships
External memberships
GERONTOLOGIE CH, Netzwerk für Lebensqualität im Alter
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gerontologie und Geriatrie e.V. (DGGG); Fachübergreifender Ausschuss (FA) Alter und Technik
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG); Arbeitskreise (AK) Feministische Geographien
Bios–Technologies–Health, Netzwerk Kritische Gesundheitsgeografie
Interdisziplinäres Netzwerk Age-Research
Passagen, Netzwerk Gender & Migration
Awards
Short-Term International Visiting Fellowship, University of Zurich
Host: Prof. Dr. Gillian Rose, Human Geography, Open University (Milton Keynes, UK)
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- German - Native or bilingual proficiency
- English - Full professional proficiency