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Sandra Torres, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor of Sociology & Chair in Social Gerontology
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Uppsala Lan, Sweden

Sandra Torres is a Professor of Sociology and the Chair of Social Gerontology at Uppsala University, Sweden. As a critical social gerontologist, her work problematizes old age-related constructs and deconstructs some of the taken-for-granted assumptions that inform research, policy, and practice for the older segments of our population. Sandra is the, the President of the Social-Behavioral Section of the Int’l. Association of Gerontology & Geriatrics – European Region (IAGG-ER) as well as the Past President (2018-2023) of the Research Committee on Aging of the Int’l. Sociological Association (ISAs RC-11), and past co-convenor of the Gerontological Society of America’s Interest Group on International Aging and Migration. She was elected into the (Swedish) Royal Society of Sciences in 2016 and has been a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America since 2017. Prof. Torres has authored 100+ peer-reviewed publications (incl. books and book chapters) and has made 150+ presentations at int’l. conferences. She is the Editor-in-Chief for Ageing & Society. Her latest book - Ethnicity & Old Age: Expanding our Imagination – which was published by Policy Press in 2019 – was awarded the 2021 Richard M. Kalish Innovative Publication Book Award by the Gerontological Society of America. Her latest co-edited collections include Critical Gerontology for Social Workers (w- Sarah Donnelly, Policy Press, 2022), and the Handbook of Migration & Aging (w- Alistair Hunter, Edward Edgar Publishing, 2023).

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