Anastasia Emelyanova

Title

Researching healthy ageing and age-friendly communities

Aim

Anastasia Emelyanova’s project as Arctic Five Chair will focus on the human-environmental relationships and promoting sustainable development in the Nordic Arctic region. The design of the planned empirical research is cross-sectional and involve a tailored questionnaire to the cohort of older residents in various scale urban and rural settlements.

Research group

• Dr. Agneta Larsson from Luleå University of Technology
• Dr. Shahnaj Begum from University of Lapland
• Professor Päivi Naskali from University of Lapland
• Professor Bodil Hansen Blix from UiT Arctic University of Norway
• Dr. Javier Sanchez Romano from UiT Arctic University of Norway
• Professor Morten Tryland from UiT Arctic University of Norway
• Professor Birgitta Evengård from Umeå University

Plan for the first year

30

Sep2022

The impact of COVID-19 physical distancing measures on the social isolation and loneliness of older people in the Russian NorthEdited and revised above book chapter of the AGE-Arctic project External link., that is led by University of Lapland

Autumn 2022

Healthy ageing and infrastructure. Developing above joint new project with Dr. Agneta Larsson, senior lecturer att Luleå University of Technology

Settlement planning in Russian policy and practice: Is aging in the focus? Publishing above book chapter in collaboration with the finalizing projects NORRUS-AGE External link. and Northern Dimension Institute ThinkTank project External link.

Education activities in collaborationTogether with UArctic Thematic Networks, especially the networks Health and Well-being in the Arctic External link., where Anastasia serve as a Vice-Lead, and Ageing and Gender in the Arctic External link., especially with partner universities University of Lapland and Umeå University

Joint activities within the new funded Clinf-Green External link. project Led by Professor Birgitta Evengård, Umeå University

Joint development activities of the MA course One Health External link. in Northern Communities and Ecosystems in the Nordic network Led by UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Seminar and/or lecture: Doctoral course In cooperation with University of Oulu Graduate School (UniOGS) or the UArctic networks Health and Well-being in the Arctic in cooperation with Clinf-Green External link. project.

Online/ UOulu: Kvantum Institute brown bag seminar

• Blog post at the University of Oulu/ UArctic involving colleagues from Luleå University of Technology and University of Lapland.
• Conferences and congresses presentations