Short biography
Marina Plugge, M.Sc. studied Communication Science, Sociology and Empirical Social Research at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, at the Swedish University Högskolan i Skövde and at the University of Cologne. She has been a research associate at the NRW Forschungskolleg GROW since February 2019 and is doing her PhD on concepts of "successful" ageing processes from the 9th decade of life upwards. Prior to her research assistantship, she was a staff member at the interdisciplinary research institution ceres (Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics and Social Sciences of Health) in the project NRW80plus, which collects data to investigate the quality of life and subjective well-being of very old people in NRW. In her master's thesis, she analysed the data from the preceding feasibility study on the topic of health, social embedding and life satisfaction of the oldest old.
Research interests
- Social inequality in the oldest old
- Quality of life in the oldest old
- Social embedding in the oldest old
- Sociology of Age(s)
Publications
Plugge, M. (2021). Successful ageing in the oldest old: objectively and subjectively measured evidence from a population‐based survey in Germany. European Journal of Aging, Social, Behavioural and Health Perspectives, 18(4), S. 537-547. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10433-021-00609-7