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Vesna Dolničar, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (FSS, UL), where she teaches courses in social informatics. At the Centre for Social Informatics she has been involved in more than 35 national and international research projects (in 17 of them as project leader at UL) (e.g. FP6, FP7, COST Actions, LLP, Erasmus+, EC, INTERREG, AAL) dealing with digital inequalities and the role of ICT for active and healthy ageing. She is currently leading the research project "Factors impacting intention to use smart technology enabled care services among family carers of older people in the context of long-distance care" (2019-2022) funded by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) and the international project "ITHACA - InnovaTion in Health And Care for All" funded by the European Regional Development Fund INTERREG EUROPE. Through In the framework of these two projects, she is studying acceptability of ICT-supported services and the psychosocial outcomes of using these services among older people, informal carers and patients in health and social care settings. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vesna Dolničar is a co-author of 23 scientific articles, 2 scientific monographs and 9 chapters in monographs published by renowned publishers (Wiley, Greenwood, Peter Lang, Springer) and has given a number of scientific presentations at conferences. In 2017, she received the Outstanding Achievement in Promoting Internationalisation Award from the Faculty of Social Sciences of UL.
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