Barbara Barbosa Neves is senior researcher at the University of Toronto and associate director of the "Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab" (TAGlab) from the same university. She is also an integrated researcher at the Centre for Public Administration and Public Policies (CAPP) of the University of Lisbon. She was nominated and elected secretary and treasurer of the family research committee (RC06) of the International Sociological Association (ISA) for the quadrennium 2014-2018, having been part of the direction of the committee from 2010 to 2014.
Her research focuses on an interdisciplinary and applied approach of social capital, social networks, new technologies, intergenerational relations and digital and social inclusion. At TAGlab, she coordinates research on adoption and use of new technologies by elderly and its effect on active aging and on the decrease of social isolation and loneliness of institutionalized elderly. She also studies patterns and norms of interaction in family networks, focusing on intergenerational relationships. She also teaches research methods and sociology of technology at post-graduate level. Previously, she was Assistant Professor at ISCSP, University of Lisbon, where she taught: sociology of technology, sociology of gender, sociology: subject and method, methods and techniques of sociological research, sociological thinking II, digital media, information and communication techniques and technologies.
Her work has been published in several scientific journals: Social Science Research, Young, International Review of Sociology, Sociological Research Online, Sociology Compass, Journal of Comparative Family Studies and International Journal of Community Informatics. She also has several book chapters and contributions to the new Encyclopedia of Family Studies. She obtained her PhD in Social Sciences (specialty: Sociology) at the Technical University of Lisbon in joint supervision with NetLab from the University of Toronto (2012).