Participate in Haus der Wissenschaft or via Zoom. You’ll find the Zoom-link below. We kindly ask you to register for the event below.
Prof. Dr. Sonia Lippke and Dr. Ge Yu
Conducting research on Ageing, Lifelong Learning and Labour Market Participation of Older Workers in China and Germany, Prof. Dr. Sonia Lippke and Dr. Ge Yu acquired surprising insights about similarities and differences in both culture’s dealing with age. In their lecture event, you will find out about typical behaviours during the corona pandemic in both countries and where they derive from. Another focus will be informal employment at older age in China, which is strongly connected to individual demographic backgrounds.
Finally, the researches will share their recommendations for future interventions and challenges for policy makers.
We also recommend to visit our event on January 12th to acquire a first overview on social policies in China.
Sonia Lippke is a health psychologist with the main expertise in theory- and evidence-based health promotion. Her goals are the improvement of health and health behavior as well as the enhancement of happiness in large populations of all age groups. In several studies, she tested social-cognitive theories and theory-based interventions in different age groups.
This was done in diverse samples and settings, such as the worksites, rehabilitation centers, clinics, schools, universities and exercise classes. Dr. Lippke conducted research applying different techniques (including internet and Information Technologies, IT, as well as Randomized Controlled Trials, RCT) and investigating different characteristics of individuals (age, motivation, ethnicity background, gender, clinical diagnoses etc.). She conceptualizes age not only in terms of chronological age but also as subjective and individually varying processes. She collaborates in international and interdisciplinary studies testing different mediators and moderators in the self-regulation of health behavior, e.g., subjective age and future time perspective.
Ge Yu, Sociologist, Talent development specialist, responsible for learning and development at an international software company in Belgium (BESTMIX Software). She is also Scientific Fellow at Constructor University (formerly known as Jacobs University) Bremen, Germany and University Lecturer at Liaoning University China. She holds a PhD in sociology from University of Bremen. Her research focuses on ageing, age and the labour market, and lifelong learning. Her scientific publications relate to social policy, work and retirement, with a particular focus on China.
The event will be held in English.
Participate in Haus der Wissenschaft or Online via Zoom.
Participation is free of cost.
Please register for attendance at the event using either the following form or via mail to veranstaltung@konfuzius-institut-bremen.de.