Affiliation
Researcher and PhD student, Department for Gerontology, University of Vechta, Germany

Address

Universität Vechta
Institut für Gerontologie
Driver Str. 22
49377 Vechta
Germany

Contact

nele-marie.tanschus@uni-vechta.de

0049 (0) 4441 15 609

Biosketch

Ms Tanschus is member of the coordinating team of the German-Tanzanian university partnership “InSPiRE” which aims at jointly initiating structured postgraduate programmes in research methods education for their postgraduate students in the social sciences both at the University of Vechta, Germany, and the St. Augustine University of Tanzania.

She studied Gerontology at the University of Vechta. In her diploma thesis she looked at the changing roles of South African grandparents under the impact of HIV/AIDS. In 2008, she then became a researcher at the Department for Gerontology also in Vechta, where she is currently working on her PhD thesis doing research (quantitative secondary analysis as well qualitative; FGDs) on intergenerational support in Tanzania.

Key research/capacity building interests

Research Interests

• Intergenerational relationships and support in Tanzania
• Care in old age
• Pensions and welfare state
• Poverty and old age
• Change of intergenerational support over time

CapacityBuildingInterests

• Research education
• Common research projects

Key methodological skills

• Focus Group Discussions
• Bivariate and multivariate statistical analysis (SPSS)
• Questionnaire design and data entry
• Field experience in Tanzania

Current/planned research

• PhD project on Intergenerational support in Tanzania
• Supportive to a quantitative baseline study where the effects of pensions on intergenerational support will be measured

Current engagement in capacity building

• Initiation of structured postgraduate programmes in research methods education - A German-Tanzanian partnership in the Social Sciences http://www.inspire-project.org
• Supporting Tanzanian PhD students at the University of Vechta