Dr. Heidi Kaspar

• Co-lead Center of Competence in Participatory Healthcare

• participatory research

• caring communities

• living labs

• care relations, care work

• feminist research

• aging in place

• global healthcare markets, patient mobilities

• transnationalism

• 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

• 2005-2011 Doctor in Science University of Zurich
• 1998-2004 Diploma in Geography and Social and Economic History University of Zurich

• Internationale Bodenseehochschule (IBH) Living Lab ‘Active Assisted Living (AAL)’; sub-project 1 ‘Elimination of Barriers’, 2016-2021; sub-project 2 ‘Accessible Tourisms in the Bodensee Region’, 2018-2021; sub-project 3 ‘Home Health Living Lab (HHLL)’, 2018-2020.

• Unterstützung für pflegende Angehörige beim Einstieg und in Notfallsituationen, Projekt G04 des Nationalen Förderprogramms 'Entlastungsangebote für betreuende Angehörige', Leitung: Prof. Dr. André Fringer, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW),2017-2019.

• 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.

• Socially sustainable design, use and appropriation of urban parks, NFP 54 – Nachhaltige Siedlungs- und Infrastrukturentwicklung, Leitung: Dr. Elisabeth Bühler, Prof. Dr. Sabine Timpf, 2005-2009.

• 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

Host: Prof. Dr. Audrey Bochaton, géographie et laboratoires dynamiques sociales et recompositions des espaces (LADYSS)

Hosts: Prof. Dr. Lawrence Cohen, Medical Anthropology UCB, Prof. Dr. Sunita Reddy, Center for Social Medicine and Community Health, JNU, New Delhi Project title: Emotional Geographies of International Medical Travel: Imaginations, Experiences and Performances of Care and Hospitality in the Context of Commercial Healthcare (P2ZHP1_148809)

• German - Native or bilingual proficiency
• English - Full professional proficiency