Barbara L. Marshall

Barbara L. Marshall is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Trent University. Her expertise spans social theory, gender, sexuality, embodiment, aging, and technologies, with a particular interest in how digital technologies shape experiences of aging.

Dr. Marshall was a faculty member at Trent University for 32 years and was a founding member of the Trent Centre for Aging and Society. She continues to collaborate, research, and write, and is Co‑Investigator on the Aging in Data research partnership. She was previously Principal Investigator on the SSHRC‑funded project Digital Culture and Quantified Aging and led the CIHR‑funded Canadian team on an international project on digital infrastructures for health and aging through the European More Years, Better Lives initiative. Her research includes work on data-fied care technologies, artificial intelligence and gerontological knowledge, and multidimensional understandings of “technogenarians.”

Dr. Marshall holds a BA and MA in Sociology from the University of Guelph and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Alberta.

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