Alice Spann
Medical University of Vienna
Alice Spann
I hold a BSc in nursing and a masters degree in nursing science from the University of Vienna. Having worked as a nurse for three years at a hospital in Vienna, I decided to get back into academia and completed my masters degree in public health at the University of Edinburgh in 2017. My dissertation focused on older people’s views and experiences with mHealth. In 2018, I joined the international, multidisciplinary Sustainable Care research programme at the University of Sheffield, which investigated how social care in the UK can be made sustainable. In cooperation with this project, I completed my PhD in health services research in 2022. My thesis focused on the potential role of technology to support working carers of people living with dementia. Since then, I have worked on two projects on assistive technology for the WHO alongside my mentor, Prof. Luc de Witte, and as a senior lecturer for nursing. I am currently working as a post doc researcher at the endowed professorship for nursing science at the Medical University of Vienna, researching work and distance care reconciliation.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Austria; Europe; |
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| Topics | Ageing in place; AI Ethics; Care innovations; Deinstitutionalisation; Dementia care and support; Digital Technology; Employment education and family carers; Ethics and care; Gender and care; Home/domiciliary care; Outcomes for unpaid/informal carers; Robots and LTC; Support for unpaid carers; Sustainability; Technology and LTC; Unpaid / informal care; Workforce capability; Workforce pay and conditions; |
| Methods | Case studies; Co-production methods; Expert consultations; Focus groups; Interviews; Literature reviews and synthesis; Participatory research methods; Qualitative studies; Science communication; Scoping reviews; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; Vignettes and narratives; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Innovation in Long-Term Care; Qualitative Research; Technology and Long-Term Care; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); Workforce Capacity and Capability; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| Website | https://public-health.meduniwien.ac.at/unsere-abteilungen/stiftungsprofessur-pflegewissenschaft/ |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-1825-686X |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZIBtk88AAAAJ&hl=de |
| http://at.linkedin.com/in/alice-spann-83814114b | |
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| Key publications | A Spann, C Allard, AC Harvey, K Zwerger, M Spreeuwenberg, M Hawley, L de Witte (2022). The impact of autonomy at work on dementia family carers’ ability to manage care-related emergencies, and use technology to that end: semi-structured interviews in Scotland. Community, Work & Family 27 (3), 351-373 A Spann, A Steininger, M Jukic-Puntigam, S Grandy (2024). Nurses’ experiences with ad-hoc patient education in an Austrian acute care setting–A qualitative multicentric study. Patient Education and Counseling 130, 108401 N Layton, A Spann, M Khan, S Contepomi, EJ Hoogerwerf, D Bell, …(2024). Guidelines for assistive technology service provision–A scoping review. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 19 (8), 2806-2817 A Spann, E Stewart (2018). Barriers and facilitators of older people’s mHealth usage: A qualitative review of older people’s views. Human Technology 14 (3), 264-296 A Spann, J Vicente, C Allard, M Hawley, M Spreeuwenberg, L de Witte (2020). Challenges of combining work and unpaid care, and solutions: A scoping review. Health & Social Care in the Community 28 (3), 699-715 A Spann, J Vicente, S Abdi, M Hawley, M Spreeuwenberg, L de Witte (2021). Benefits and barriers of technologies supporting working carers—a scoping review. Health & Social Care in the Community 30 (1), e1-e15 |