Research assistant and Doctoral researcher

Contact

Room: S06 S04 C16
Telephone: +49 (0)201 183 2159
Email: davide.viero@uni-due.de

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Research Interests

• Civil society and civic engagement
• Demographic change
• Health and care policies
• Japanese Society and Politics

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Academic and Professional Career

01/2026 – now
Doctoral Researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre 1342 (CRC 1342) "Global Dynamics of Social Policy", Project A07 "New Politics of the Ageing Welfare State? Comparing Political Outcomes and Policy Feedback of Long-term Care Policies", Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen

07/2022 – 12/2025
Doctoral Researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre 1342 (CRC 1342) "Global Dynamics of Social Policy", Project A07 "Global Dynamics of Long-term Care Policies", Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen

11/2021 – 6/2022
Researcher in the Research Project "TechCo: Digital Technologies in the COVID-19-Pandemic. A transnational Dialogue between Germany and Japan", Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine of the Ruhr-University Bochum

Education

10/2018 – 6/2021
MA in Contemporary East-Asian Studies, Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

8/2013 – 7/2017
BA in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bergamo, Italy

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Presentations

Online Conference “TechCo TechCo: Digital Technologies in the COVID-19 Pandemic. A transnational Dialogue between Germany and Japan” (Online 14.03- 18.03.2022). Workshop moderation, “ICTs and Web Tools to Manage Crises: Between Information and Engagement” (Online 16.03.2022) Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Wittgenstein Centre Conference 2021, „The Causes and Consequences of Depopulation” (Online: 29.11 - 01.12.2021). Poster presentation: Viero D., 2021, “Civic Engagement Patterns in Shrinking Cities: Rural and Urban Japan”
 

Publications

Viero, Davide/Fischer, Johanna (2025): Comparative Assessment of Long-term Care System Generosity: Mapping Benefits and Inclusiveness Internationally. Socium SFB 1342 Working Paper Series 31, University of Bremen. Doi: 10.26092/elib/4329

Haltaufderheide, Joschka/Viero, Davide/Krämer, Dennis (2023): Cultural Implications Regarding Privacy in Digital Contact Tracing Algorithms: Method Development and Empirical Ethics Analysis of a German and a Japanese Approach to Contact Tracing. Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 25 | e45112. Doi:10.2196/45112