I am a sociologist studying care, ageing and health from the intersections of social gerontology, nursing science, public health and ethics. I work with qualitative methods and I am particularly interested in participatory approaches and arts-based methods. I am an associate editor of the International Journal of Care and Caring. 

I am researcher and project manager at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna where I carry out research projects focusing on topics such as social innovation in long-term care in a comparative perspective, integrated care, person-centred and culturally-sensitive care for older migrants, informal caregiving, experiences of caregiving and care receiving, the development of long-term care systems, and concepts of ageing well. Before joining the European Centre, I was postdoc at the Department for Ethics and History of Medicine at Tübingen University (Germany).

It is important to me to discuss research not only within academia, but beyond the scientific community with those who are involved, affected or just interested in a topic. Two things characterise my teaching: my enthusiasm for the scientific questions I am studying and my joy of working together with others. I am also trained in teaching academic writing and in 2022 I co-organised the conference  Schreibend denken und forschen – Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliches Schreiben at the University of Vienna.

Publications 

Kadi, S., Ehni, HJ. (2024) Gesundheit als höchstes Gut? Schlagworte des guten Alterns in subjektiven Perspektiven. in: Pfaller, L., Schweda, M. (eds) “Successful Aging”?. Altern & Gesellschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41465-8_6

Leichsenring, K., Kadi, S., Schmidt, A.E., Staflinger, H. (2023). The Covid-19 Pandemic in Austria: With Special Reference to Migrant Care Workers. In: Aspalter, C. (eds) Covid-19 Pandemic. Springer, Singapore. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2497-4_13

Beimborn, M., Kadi, S., Köberer N., Mühleck, M., Spindler, M. (2016) Focusing on the Human: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Ageing and Technology in: Dominguez-Rue, Emma and Linda Nierling (Editors) Age and Technology. Perspectives from the Social Sciences Science Studies Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. Available online: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839429570-015

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Breuer, E., Kadi, S., Kahlert, R., Champeix, C., Garcia-Soler, A., Grbevska, T., Ondas, K., Comas-Herrera, A., Olivia, S., Ulla-Diez, SM., Slavkoska, A., Stouthard, L., Iturburu, M., Galdona, N., Ilinca, S.(2025) Co-developing program theories for best fit social innovations in long-term care: lessons from across European implementation projects Journal of Long-Term Care 1-11 Available online: https://journal.ilpnetwork.org/articles/10.31389/jltc.306

Simmons, C., Ilinca, S., Kadi, S., Comas-Herrera, A. (2024) Financing and provision of long-term care in Europe: reflections on intergenerational solidarity in care for older people Social Policy & Administration Available online: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spol.13113

Pot, M., Kadi, S., Staflinger, H. (2024) Gaps in public support for young carers: policies and young people’s experiences in Austria International Journal of Care and Caring 1-16 Available online: https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000087

Rodrigues, R., Simmons, C., Zólyomi, E., Vafaei, A., Rehnberg, J., Kadi, S., Socci, M., Fors, S., Phillipps, S. (2024) Depends on whom you ask: discordance in reporting spousal care between older women and men across European welfare states, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2024.105518

Kadi, S., Unterpertinger, E. (2023) Editorial Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Schreibforschung 9: 3-5. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/zisch/issue/view/634

Vafaei A, Rodrigues R, Ilinca S, Fors S, Kadi S, Zolyomi E, Phillips, S. (2023) Inequities in home care use among older Canadian adults: Are they corrected by public funding? PLoS ONE 18(2): e0280961. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280961

Rodrigues, R., Rehnberg, J., Simmons, C., Ilinca, S., Zolyomi, E., Vafaei, A., Kadi, S., Jull, J., Philipps, S., Fors, S. (2023) Cohort trajectories by age and gender for informal caregiving in Europe adjusted for socio-demographic changes, 2004 and 2015 The Journals of Gerontology: Series B Available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad011

Leichsenring. K., Kadi, S., Simmons, C. (2022) Making the Invisible Visible: The Pandemic and Migrant Care Work in Long-Term Care. Social Sciences 11(8):326. Available online: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080326

Augustsson, E., Rehnberg, J., Simmons, C., Rodrigues, R., Kadi, S., Ilinca, S., Phillips, S., Fors, S. (2022) Can Sex Differences in Old Age Disabilities be Attributed to Socioeconomic Conditions? Evidence from a Mapping Review of the Literature Journal of Population Ageing Available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-022-09395-1

Kadi, S., Rodrigues, R., Kahlert, R., Nigischer, S., Bauer, G. (2022) Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime Journal of Social Policy Available online: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000022

Van Aerschot, L., Kadi, S., Rodrigues, R., Filipovic Hrast, M. Hlebec, V., Aaltonen, M. (2022) Community dwelling older adults and their informal carers call for more attention to psychosocial needs – Interview study on unmet care needs in three European countries Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2022.104672

Rodrigues, R., Filipovic Hrast, M., Kadi, S., Cerar, M., Hlebec, V. (2022) Life course pathways into intergenerational caregiving Journals of Gerontology Series B Available online: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac024

Fors, S., Illinca, S., Jull, J., Kadi, S., Rodrigues, R., Vafaei, A., Zolyomi, E., Rehnberg, J. (2022) Cohort-specific disability trajectories among older women and men in Europe 2004–2017 European Journal of Ageing. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-022-00684-4

Kadi, S., Ehni, H.-J. (2021). Alt und suchtkrank? Medizinethische Aspekte der Vernachlässigung von Substanzabhängigkeit im Alter [Old and addicted? Aspects of the neglect of substance addiction in later life from a medical ethics perspective]. Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik 67(1), 87-101. Available online: https://doi.org/10.14623/zfme.2021.1.87-101

Ehni, H.-J., Schermer, M., Venkatapuram, S., Kadi, S. (2018) Toward a Global Geroethics – Gerontology and the Theory of the Good Human Life Bioethics 32(4): 261-268. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12445

Kadi, S., Wiesing, U. (2018) Well informed by national registers? A comparison of national ART registers in Germany, France and the United Kingdom The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Healthcare 22(6): 465-471. Available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/13625187.2017.1416600

Kadi, S., Wiesing, U. (2016) Response to the Comment by the Board of the German IVF Register Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde 76(06): 688-689 Available online: DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-108897

Kadi, S., Wiesing, U. (2016) The German IVF Register as an Instrument to Document Assisted Reproductive Technologies Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde 76(6): 680-684 Available online: DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-108576

Kadi, S., Wiesing, U. (2015) Uninformed Decisions? The Online Presentation of Success and Failure of IVF and Related Methods on German IVF Centre Websites Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde 75 (12): 1258-1263. Available online: DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1558297

Impressum: Selma Kadi c/o European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Berggasse 17, 1090 Wien, selma_kadi @ gmx.net