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Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves

PhD, FRSA, FHEA

Email

barbara.barbosaneves@sydney.edu.au

Address

A02 - Social Sciences Building

The University of Sydney

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Member of Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies

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Curriculum vitae

Biographical details

Dr Barbara Barbosa Neves (PhD, FRSA, FHEA) is an award-winning sociologist of technology and ageing, based at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies. She holds a prestigious Sydney Horizon Fellowship in AI social science. Dr Neves is an internationally recognised expert on loneliness, social isolation, and digital inequalities in later life. Barbara has secured more than $6 million dollars in competitive funding from scientific and industry bodies in Australia, the European Union, and Canada. She currently holds an ARC Discovery Project on loneliness and technology and two MRFFs on dementia. Additionally, she is the Lead Chief Investigator of a national evaluation of the ACVVS for the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care. Her co-designed, mixed-methods research focuses on how technologies like AI, VR, and robotics can benefit rather than exclude older people (65+). This research has received 28 esteemed awards in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia – and it has been used to refine technology design and inform social policy and care practices (Canada, Australia, Europe). Dr Neves has a background in sociology and human-computer interaction. Prior to moving to Australia, she was an Associate Director at the Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada.

Current projects

2023-2026–“Evaluation of the Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme (ACVVS)”, Lead Chief Investigator (CIA). Co-director with Assoc. Prof. Warren. Team includes Dr. Freak-Poli, Dr. Ayton, Dr. Brusco, Dr. Ko, Dr Burns, Dr. Colon-Cabrera, Prof. Cripps. Department of Health and Aged Care, Australian Government ($1,052,340.00).

2023-2025–“Understanding the Role of Digital Technologies in addressing Loneliness”, Recipient with Prof. Alan Petersen. Australia Research Council, ARC ($436,484.00).

2023-2025–“Residential Aged Care Enhanced Dementia Diagnosis”, Recipient withLead Dr Darshini Ayton and team. Medical Research Future Fund, National Centre for Healthy Ageing ($299,62720).

2023-2025–“RACEDD:Residential Aged Care - Enhanced Dementia Diagnosis,Recipient withLead Dr Darshini Layton and team. Medical Research Future Fund, MRFF ($200,000.00).

2022-2025–“The right to rehabilitation for people with dementia: tackling stigma and implementing evidence-based interventions”, Recipient with Lead InvestigatorAssoc. Prof. Michelle Callisaya and team. Medical Research Future Fund, MRFF ($1,015,820.66).

Awards and honours

AWARDS AND HONORS

I have received 28 awards and honours from academic and industry bodies across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. These include prestigious top and distinguished paper awards in the US (2024, 2022, 2021), Japan (2018), and Europe (2013).

Below is a list since 2019:

2025 Brocher Foundation Visiting Fellow Award, Switzerland.

2024 University of Jyväskylä Visiting Fellow Award, Finland.

- Article “‘Live Gerontology’: Understanding and Representing Aging, Loneliness, and Long-Term Care through Science and Art” awarded a Mather Award (US).

2023 George Story Distinguished Lecturer Award at Memorial University, Canada.

- Named a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.

- Article ‘Pandemic Diaries: lived experiences of loneliness, loss, and hope among older adults during COVID-19” nominated for a Mather Award (US).

2022 Named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK) for research on technology, loneliness, and ageing.

- Article "The Role of Staff in Facilitating Immersive Virtual Reality for Enrichment in Aged Care: An Ethic of Care Perspective" awarded an Honorable Mention at CHI 2022, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

2021 Article “Dignity, Autonomy, and Style of Company: Dimensions Older Adults Consider for Robot Companions” Awarded an Honorable Mention at CSCW 2021, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

- Special Commendation, Faculty of Arts Dean's Awards for Research Excellence 2021, Excellence for Research Enterprise.

2019 ABC & University of Sydney Top 5 Scholars in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS), “the next generation of research talent”.

- Chaire Jacques Leclercq – Invited Professorial Chair in Digital Technology & Society, University of Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium.

- Monash Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (ECR, 2019).

- Monash Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (ECR, 2019).

Publications

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Books

Neves, B., Vetere, F. (2019). Ageing and Digital Technology - Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults. Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
Neves, B., Casimiro, C. (2018). Connecting families?: Information and communication technologies, generations, and the life course. Online: Bristol University Press. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Neves, B., Omori, M. (2023). Artificial intelligence for long-term care in later life. In Alan Petersen (Eds.), Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine, (pp. 488-503). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Pasqualotti, A., Amaro, F., Neves, B. (2023). Exergames and Neuropsychological Functions in Older Adults: An Experimental Approach. In Barbara Barbosa Neves, Frank Vetere (Eds.), Ageing and Digital Technology - Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults, (pp. 247-265). Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
Cook, P., Neves, B., Curryer, C., Banks, S., Mallon, A., Lam, J., Omori, M. (2023). Governing risk and older age during COVID-19: Contextualizing ageism and COVID-19 outbreaks in australian aged care facilities during 2020. In Mala Kapur Shankardass (Eds.), Handbook on COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Persons: Narratives and Issues from India and Beyond, (pp. 277-297). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. [More Information]
Cook, P., Curryer, C., Banks, S., Neves, B., Omori, M., Mallon, A., Lam, J. (2021). Ageism and risk during the coronavirus pandemic. In Deborah Lupton, Karen Willis (Eds.), The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives, (pp. 207-218). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Neves, B. (2021). Commentary: Technology, design and the 3Ps-the problem of problematising ageing as problematic. In Alexander Peine, Louis Neven, Wendy Martin, Barbara L. Marshall (Eds.), Socio-gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology, (pp. 241-247). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
Neves, B., Vetere, F. (2019). Ageing and Emerging Digital Technologies. In Barbara Barbosa Neves, Frank Vetere (Eds.), Ageing and Digital Technology - Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults, (pp. 1-14). Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
Hookway, N., Barbosa Neves, B., Franklin, A., Patulny, R. (2019). Loneliness and love in late modernity: sites of tension and resistance. In Roger Patulny, Alberto Bellocchi, Rebecca Olson, Sukhmani Khorana et al (Eds.), Emotions in Late Modernity, (pp. 87-97). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Franz, R., Neves, B. (2019). Usability Is Ageless: Conducting Usability Tests with Older Adults. In Barbara Barbosa Neves, Frank Vetere (Eds.), Ageing and Digital Technology - Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults, (pp. 99-114). Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
Franz, R., Neves, B. (2019). Why and how think alouds with older adults fail: recommendations from a study and expert interviews. In Sayago, S. (Eds.), Perspectives on human computer interaction research with older people, (pp. 220-237). Online: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]
Barbosa Neves, B., Baecker, R., Carvalho, D., Sanders, A. (2018). Cross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life. In Barbosa Neves, B. & Casimiro, C. (Eds.), Connecting families?: Information and communication technologies, generations, and the life course, (pp. 113-131). Online: Bristol University Press. [More Information]
Mead, G., Neves, B. (2018). Recursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor network theory and strong structuration theory. In Barbosa Neves, B. & Casimiro, C. (Eds.), Connecting families?: Information and communication technologies, generations, and the life course, (pp. 41-58). Online: Bristol University Press. [More Information]
Neves, B., Mead, G. (2017). The interpretive and ideal-type approach: Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a weberian perspective. In Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert (Eds.), Theorizing Digital Divides, (pp. 48-60). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Neves, B. (2012). Enabling local development through digital cities: Examples from Portugal. In José A. Rio Fernandes, Márcio Moraes Valença, Fernanda Delgado Cravidão (Eds.), Urban Developments in Brazil and Portugal, (pp. 139-157). United States: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

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Journals

Burns, K., Barbosa Neves, B., Warren, N. (2025). Redefining the Successful Aging of veterans: A scoping review. The Gerontologist, 65(1), gnae105. [More Information]
Bortoli, L., De Marchi, A., Castaman, A., Neves, B., Scortegagna, H., Hannecker, L. (2024). Agile manifesto of non-formal education for older adults - a co-design experience. Educational Gerontology, 50(5), 411-422. [More Information]
Wilding, R., Baker, S., Caldwell, G., Barbosa Neves, B., Waycott, J., Miller, E., Porter, T., Johnston, J., James, W., Brajanovski, S., et al (2024). Introducing virtual reality to older adults: A qualitative analysis of a co-design innovation with care staff. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 125, 105505. [More Information]
Neves, B., Sanders, A., Warren, N., Ko, P. (2024). Loneliness in Later Life as Existential Inequality. Sociology, 58(3), 659-681. [More Information]
Barbosa Neves, B., Omori, M., Petersen, A., Vered, M., Carter, A. (2024). Navigating artificial intelligence in care homes: Competing stakeholder views of trust and logics of care. Social Science and Medicine, 358, 117187. [More Information]
Layton, N., Devanny, C., Hill, K., Swaffer, K., Russell, G., Low, L., Den-Ching, A., Lee, M., Skouteris, H., MC O'Connor, C., Barbosa Neves, B., et al (2024). The Right to Rehabilitation for People With Dementia: A Codesign Approach to Barriers and Solutions. Health Expectations, 27(5), e70036. [More Information]
Barbosa Neves, B., Petersen, A. (2024). The social stigma of loneliness: A sociological approach to understanding the experiences of older people. The Sociological Review. [More Information]
Miller, E., Wilding, R., Baker, S., Caldwell, G., Neves, B., Waycott, J. (2024). Transforming aged care with virtual reality: How organisational culture impacts technology adoption and sustained uptake. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 43(1), 183-190. [More Information]
Neves, B., Petersen, A., Vered, M., Carter, A., Omori, M. (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Long-Term Care: Technological Promise, Aging Anxieties, and Sociotechnical Ageism. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(6), 1274-1282. [More Information]
Barnwell, A., Neves, B., Ravn, S. (2023). Captured and captioned: Representing family life on Instagram. New Media and Society, 25(5), 921-942. [More Information]
Mead, G., Neves, B. (2023). Contested delegation: Understanding critical public responses to algorithmic decision-making in the UK and Australia. The Sociological Review, 71(3), 601-623. [More Information]
Neves, B., Cabrera, D., Sanders, A., Warren, N. (2023). Pandemic Diaries: Lived Experiences of Loneliness, Loss, and Hope among Older Adults during COVID-19. The Gerontologist, 63(1), 120-130. [More Information]
Teshale, A., Htun, H., Hu, J., Dalli, L., Lim, M., Neves, B., Baker, J., Phyo, A., Reid, C., Ryan, J., et al (2023). The relationship between social isolation, social support, and loneliness with cardiovascular disease and shared risk factors: A narrative review. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 111. [More Information]
Neves, B., Wilson, J., Sanders, A., Kokanovic, R. (2023). Using crystallization to understand loneliness in later life: integrating social science and creative narratives in sensitive qualitative research. Qualitative Research, 23(1), 38-54. [More Information]
Neves, B., Waycott, J., Maddox, A. (2023). When Technologies are Not Enough: The Challenges of Digital Interventions to Address Loneliness in Later Life. Sociological Research Online, 28(1), 150-170. [More Information]
Neves, B., Wilson, J., Sanders, A., Kokanovic, R., Burns, K. (2023). “Live Gerontology”: Understanding and Representing Aging, Loneliness, and Long-Term Care Through Science and Art. The Gerontologist, 63(10), 1581-1590. [More Information]
Neves, B., Baecker, R. (2022). Mixing Methods and Sciences: A Longitudinal Cross-Disciplinary Mixed Methods Study on Technology to Address Social Isolation and Loneliness in Later Life. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 16(1), 88-113. [More Information]
Neves, B., Mead, G. (2021). Digital Technology and Older People: Towards a Sociological Approach to Technology Adoption in Later Life. Sociology, 55(5), 888-905. [More Information]
Coghlan, S., Waycott, J., Lazar, A., Neves, B. (2021). Dignity, Autonomy, and Style of Company: Dimensions Older Adults Consider for Robot Companions. ACM Proceedings on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW1). [More Information]
Casimiro, C., Neves, B. (2021). Family life and information and communication technologies in a globalized world. Analise Social, 56(239), 308-321. [More Information]
Baker, S., Waycott, J., Robertson, E., Carrasco, R., Neves, B., Hampson, R., Vetere, F. (2020). Evaluating the use of interactive virtual reality technology with older adults living in residential aged care. Information Processing and Management, 57(3). [More Information]
Ravn, S., Barnwell, A., Neves, B. (2020). What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 15(1-2), 40-45. [More Information]
Neves, B., Borges, J. (2020). Why does fake news have space on social media? A discussion in the light of infocommunicational behavior and digital marketing. Informacao & Sociedade: estudos, 30(2). [More Information]
Neves, B., Franz, R., Judges, R., Beermann, C., Baecker, R. (2019). Can Digital Technology Enhance Social Connectedness Among Older Adults? A Feasibility Study. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 38(1), 49-72. [More Information]
Coghlan, S., Vetere, F., Waycott, J., Neves, B. (2019). Could Social Robots Make Us Kinder or Crueller to Humans and Animals? International Journal of Social Robotics, 11(5), 741-751. [More Information]
Neves, B. (2019). Resources that can support the librarian in combating Fake News on social media. AtoZ: novas praticas em informacao e conhecimento, 8(2), 17-27. [More Information]
Neves, B., Dias de Carvalho, D., Serra, F., Torres, A., Fraga, S. (2019). Social Capital in Transition(s) to Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal and Mixed-Methods Approach. Journal of Adolescent Research, 34(1), 85-112. [More Information]
Franklin, A., Neves, B., Hookway, N., Patulny, R., Tranter, B., Jaworski, K. (2019). Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging. Journal of Sociology, 55(1), 124-143. [More Information]
Neves, B., Sanders, A., Kokanovic, R. (2019). “It's the worst bloody feeling in the world”: Experiences of loneliness and social isolation among older people living in care homes. Journal of Aging Studies, 49, 74-84. [More Information]
Neves, B., Franz, R., Munteanu, C., Baecker, R. (2018). Adoption and feasibility of a communication app to enhance social connectedness amongst frail institutionalized oldest old: an embedded case study. Information, Communication and Society, 21(11), 1681-1699. [More Information]
Neves, B., Waycott, J., Malta, S. (2018). Old and afraid of new communication technologies? Reconceptualising and contesting the ‘age-based digital divide’. Journal of Sociology, 54(2), 236-248. [More Information]
Neves, B., Fonseca, J., Amaro, F., Pasqualotti, A. (2018). Social capital and Internet use in an age-comparative perspective with a focus on later life. PloS One, 13(2). [More Information]
Neves, B. (2018). Strategist librarian on social media: Conceptual approach and possibilities of digital marketing in public libraries. Informacao & Sociedade: estudos, 28(3), 323-337. [More Information]
Neves, B., Rente, R. (2017). Non-aligned? Young non-users of social networking sites: a weberian approach. Sociologia: problemas e praticas, 85, 107-129. [More Information]
Neves, B., Aguiar, N. (2017). Public policy information and libraries school: Brazilian panorama. Informacao & Sociedade: estudos, 27(3), 73-86.
Neves, B. (2015). Does the Internet matter for strong ties? Bonding social capital, Internet use, and age-based inequality. International Review of Sociology, 25(3), 415-433. [More Information]
Neves, B., Fonseca, J. (2015). Latent class models in action: Bridging social capital & internet usage. Social Science Research, 50, 15-30. [More Information]
Neves, B., de Matos, J., Rente, R., Martins, S. (2015). The ‘Non-aligned’: Young People’s Narratives of Rejection of Social Networking Sites. Young: Nordic journal of youth research, 23(2), 116-135. [More Information]
Neves, B., Amaro, F., Fonseca, J. (2013). Coming of (old) age in the digital age: ICT usage and non-usage among older adults. Sociological Research Online, 18(2), 22-35. [More Information]
Neves, B. (2013). Social capital and internet use: The irrelevant, the bad, and the good. Sociology Compass, 7(8), 599-611. [More Information]
Neves, B., Padilha, M. (2012). Information management as a proposal for inclusion in a specialist library. Transinformacao, 24(1), 39-46. [More Information]
Neves, B., Santos, R., Gomes, H. (2012). Structuring the status of technology in social relations: Potential in dialogue between user and library. Informacao & Sociedade, 22(3), 25-31.
Neves, B., Amaro, F. (2012). Too old for technology? How the elderly of Lisbon use and perceive IT. The Journal of Community Informatics, 8(1). [More Information]
Neves, B. (2011). Information mediation for socio-digital agents: The leap. Ciencia da Informacao, 40(3), 413-424.
Neves, B. (2010). Information policy, information technology and communication and participation in the information society: Focus on digital inclusion from global to local sphere. Transinformacao, 22(1), 47-60. [More Information]
Neves, B. (2009). Are digital cities intelligent? The Portuguese case. International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, 1(4). [More Information]

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Conferences

Waycott, J., Kelly, R., Baker, S., Neves, B., Thach, K., Lederman, R. (2022). The Role of Staff in Facilitating Immersive Virtual Reality for Enrichment in Aged Care: An Ethic of Care Perspective. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, : Springer Verlag. [More Information]
Sin, J., Franz, R., Munteanu, C., Neves, B. (2021). Digital design marginalization: New perspectives on designing inclusive interfaces. 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Sayago, S., Blat, J., Neves, B. (2020). At the intersection of digital games, gender, and age: A participant observational study with active older women. 7th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2020, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. [More Information]
Franz, R., Findlater, L., Neves, B., Wobbrock, J. (2019). Gender and help seeking by older adults when learning new technologies. 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. [More Information]
Neves, B., Savago, S. (2019). Unintended consequences: On conducting ethical sociotechnical research with/for older people. 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2019, United States: IEEE Computer Society. [More Information]
Sayago, S., Neves, B., Cowan, B. (2019). Voice assistants and older people: Some open issues. 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2019, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Coghlan, S., Waycott, J., Neves, B., Vetere, F. (2018). Using robot pets instead of companion animals for older people: A case of 'reinventing the wheel'? 30th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Neves, B., Franz, R., Munteanu, C., Baecker, R. (2015). My hand doesn't listen to me! : Adoption and evaluation of a communication technology for the 'oldest old'. the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Franz, R., Munteanu, C., Neves, B., Baecker, R. (2015). Time to retire old methodologies? Reflecting on conducting usability evaluations with older adults. 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2015, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. [More Information]
Baecker, R., Sellen, K., Crosskey, S., Boscart, V., Neves, B. (2014). Technology to reduce social isolation and loneliness. 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2014, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

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Reference Works

Neves, B., Fernandes, A. (2023). Generational bridge. Encyclopedia of Family Studies. John Wiley & Sons.

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2025

Burns, K., Barbosa Neves, B., Warren, N. (2025). Redefining the Successful Aging of veterans: A scoping review. The Gerontologist, 65(1), gnae105. [More Information]

2024

Bortoli, L., De Marchi, A., Castaman, A., Neves, B., Scortegagna, H., Hannecker, L. (2024). Agile manifesto of non-formal education for older adults - a co-design experience. Educational Gerontology, 50(5), 411-422. [More Information]
Wilding, R., Baker, S., Caldwell, G., Barbosa Neves, B., Waycott, J., Miller, E., Porter, T., Johnston, J., James, W., Brajanovski, S., et al (2024). Introducing virtual reality to older adults: A qualitative analysis of a co-design innovation with care staff. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 125, 105505. [More Information]
Neves, B., Sanders, A., Warren, N., Ko, P. (2024). Loneliness in Later Life as Existential Inequality. Sociology, 58(3), 659-681. [More Information]
Barbosa Neves, B., Omori, M., Petersen, A., Vered, M., Carter, A. (2024). Navigating artificial intelligence in care homes: Competing stakeholder views of trust and logics of care. Social Science and Medicine, 358, 117187. [More Information]
Layton, N., Devanny, C., Hill, K., Swaffer, K., Russell, G., Low, L., Den-Ching, A., Lee, M., Skouteris, H., MC O'Connor, C., Barbosa Neves, B., et al (2024). The Right to Rehabilitation for People With Dementia: A Codesign Approach to Barriers and Solutions. Health Expectations, 27(5), e70036. [More Information]
Barbosa Neves, B., Petersen, A. (2024). The social stigma of loneliness: A sociological approach to understanding the experiences of older people. The Sociological Review. [More Information]
Miller, E., Wilding, R., Baker, S., Caldwell, G., Neves, B., Waycott, J. (2024). Transforming aged care with virtual reality: How organisational culture impacts technology adoption and sustained uptake. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 43(1), 183-190. [More Information]

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2023

Neves, B., Omori, M. (2023). Artificial intelligence for long-term care in later life. In Alan Petersen (Eds.), Handbook on the Sociology of Health and Medicine, (pp. 488-503). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Neves, B., Petersen, A., Vered, M., Carter, A., Omori, M. (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Long-Term Care: Technological Promise, Aging Anxieties, and Sociotechnical Ageism. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(6), 1274-1282. [More Information]
Barnwell, A., Neves, B., Ravn, S. (2023). Captured and captioned: Representing family life on Instagram. New Media and Society, 25(5), 921-942. [More Information]
Mead, G., Neves, B. (2023). Contested delegation: Understanding critical public responses to algorithmic decision-making in the UK and Australia. The Sociological Review, 71(3), 601-623. [More Information]
Pasqualotti, A., Amaro, F., Neves, B. (2023). Exergames and Neuropsychological Functions in Older Adults: An Experimental Approach. In Barbara Barbosa Neves, Frank Vetere (Eds.), Ageing and Digital Technology - Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults, (pp. 247-265). Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
Neves, B., Fernandes, A. (2023). Generational bridge. Encyclopedia of Family Studies. John Wiley & Sons.
Cook, P., Neves, B., Curryer, C., Banks, S., Mallon, A., Lam, J., Omori, M. (2023). Governing risk and older age during COVID-19: Contextualizing ageism and COVID-19 outbreaks in australian aged care facilities during 2020. In Mala Kapur Shankardass (Eds.), Handbook on COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Persons: Narratives and Issues from India and Beyond, (pp. 277-297). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. [More Information]
Neves, B., Cabrera, D., Sanders, A., Warren, N. (2023). Pandemic Diaries: Lived Experiences of Loneliness, Loss, and Hope among Older Adults during COVID-19. The Gerontologist, 63(1), 120-130. [More Information]
Teshale, A., Htun, H., Hu, J., Dalli, L., Lim, M., Neves, B., Baker, J., Phyo, A., Reid, C., Ryan, J., et al (2023). The relationship between social isolation, social support, and loneliness with cardiovascular disease and shared risk factors: A narrative review. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 111. [More Information]
Neves, B., Wilson, J., Sanders, A., Kokanovic, R. (2023). Using crystallization to understand loneliness in later life: integrating social science and creative narratives in sensitive qualitative research. Qualitative Research, 23(1), 38-54. [More Information]
Neves, B., Waycott, J., Maddox, A. (2023). When Technologies are Not Enough: The Challenges of Digital Interventions to Address Loneliness in Later Life. Sociological Research Online, 28(1), 150-170. [More Information]
Neves, B., Wilson, J., Sanders, A., Kokanovic, R., Burns, K. (2023). “Live Gerontology”: Understanding and Representing Aging, Loneliness, and Long-Term Care Through Science and Art. The Gerontologist, 63(10), 1581-1590. [More Information]

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2022

Neves, B., Baecker, R. (2022). Mixing Methods and Sciences: A Longitudinal Cross-Disciplinary Mixed Methods Study on Technology to Address Social Isolation and Loneliness in Later Life. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 16(1), 88-113. [More Information]
Waycott, J., Kelly, R., Baker, S., Neves, B., Thach, K., Lederman, R. (2022). The Role of Staff in Facilitating Immersive Virtual Reality for Enrichment in Aged Care: An Ethic of Care Perspective. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, : Springer Verlag. [More Information]

2021

Cook, P., Curryer, C., Banks, S., Neves, B., Omori, M., Mallon, A., Lam, J. (2021). Ageism and risk during the coronavirus pandemic. In Deborah Lupton, Karen Willis (Eds.), The COVID-19 Crisis: Social Perspectives, (pp. 207-218). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Neves, B. (2021). Commentary: Technology, design and the 3Ps-the problem of problematising ageing as problematic. In Alexander Peine, Louis Neven, Wendy Martin, Barbara L. Marshall (Eds.), Socio-gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology, (pp. 241-247). United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
Sin, J., Franz, R., Munteanu, C., Neves, B. (2021). Digital design marginalization: New perspectives on designing inclusive interfaces. 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Neves, B., Mead, G. (2021). Digital Technology and Older People: Towards a Sociological Approach to Technology Adoption in Later Life. Sociology, 55(5), 888-905. [More Information]
Coghlan, S., Waycott, J., Lazar, A., Neves, B. (2021). Dignity, Autonomy, and Style of Company: Dimensions Older Adults Consider for Robot Companions. ACM Proceedings on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW1). [More Information]
Casimiro, C., Neves, B. (2021). Family life and information and communication technologies in a globalized world. Analise Social, 56(239), 308-321. [More Information]

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2020

Sayago, S., Blat, J., Neves, B. (2020). At the intersection of digital games, gender, and age: A participant observational study with active older women. 7th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, CHI PLAY 2020, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. [More Information]
Baker, S., Waycott, J., Robertson, E., Carrasco, R., Neves, B., Hampson, R., Vetere, F. (2020). Evaluating the use of interactive virtual reality technology with older adults living in residential aged care. Information Processing and Management, 57(3). [More Information]
Ravn, S., Barnwell, A., Neves, B. (2020). What Is “Publicly Available Data”? Exploring Blurred Public–Private Boundaries and Ethical Practices Through a Case Study on Instagram. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 15(1-2), 40-45. [More Information]
Neves, B., Borges, J. (2020). Why does fake news have space on social media? A discussion in the light of infocommunicational behavior and digital marketing. Informacao & Sociedade: estudos, 30(2). [More Information]

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2019

Neves, B., Vetere, F. (2019). Ageing and Digital Technology - Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults. Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
Neves, B., Vetere, F. (2019). Ageing and Emerging Digital Technologies. In Barbara Barbosa Neves, Frank Vetere (Eds.), Ageing and Digital Technology - Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults, (pp. 1-14). Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
Neves, B., Franz, R., Judges, R., Beermann, C., Baecker, R. (2019). Can Digital Technology Enhance Social Connectedness Among Older Adults? A Feasibility Study. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 38(1), 49-72. [More Information]
Coghlan, S., Vetere, F., Waycott, J., Neves, B. (2019). Could Social Robots Make Us Kinder or Crueller to Humans and Animals? International Journal of Social Robotics, 11(5), 741-751. [More Information]
Franz, R., Findlater, L., Neves, B., Wobbrock, J. (2019). Gender and help seeking by older adults when learning new technologies. 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. [More Information]
Hookway, N., Barbosa Neves, B., Franklin, A., Patulny, R. (2019). Loneliness and love in late modernity: sites of tension and resistance. In Roger Patulny, Alberto Bellocchi, Rebecca Olson, Sukhmani Khorana et al (Eds.), Emotions in Late Modernity, (pp. 87-97). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Neves, B. (2019). Resources that can support the librarian in combating Fake News on social media. AtoZ: novas praticas em informacao e conhecimento, 8(2), 17-27. [More Information]
Neves, B., Dias de Carvalho, D., Serra, F., Torres, A., Fraga, S. (2019). Social Capital in Transition(s) to Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal and Mixed-Methods Approach. Journal of Adolescent Research, 34(1), 85-112. [More Information]
Franklin, A., Neves, B., Hookway, N., Patulny, R., Tranter, B., Jaworski, K. (2019). Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging. Journal of Sociology, 55(1), 124-143. [More Information]
Neves, B., Savago, S. (2019). Unintended consequences: On conducting ethical sociotechnical research with/for older people. 14th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2019, United States: IEEE Computer Society. [More Information]
Franz, R., Neves, B. (2019). Usability Is Ageless: Conducting Usability Tests with Older Adults. In Barbara Barbosa Neves, Frank Vetere (Eds.), Ageing and Digital Technology - Designing and Evaluating Emerging Technologies for Older Adults, (pp. 99-114). Singapore: Springer Nature. [More Information]
Sayago, S., Neves, B., Cowan, B. (2019). Voice assistants and older people: Some open issues. 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2019, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Franz, R., Neves, B. (2019). Why and how think alouds with older adults fail: recommendations from a study and expert interviews. In Sayago, S. (Eds.), Perspectives on human computer interaction research with older people, (pp. 220-237). Online: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]
Neves, B., Sanders, A., Kokanovic, R. (2019). “It's the worst bloody feeling in the world”: Experiences of loneliness and social isolation among older people living in care homes. Journal of Aging Studies, 49, 74-84. [More Information]

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2018

Neves, B., Franz, R., Munteanu, C., Baecker, R. (2018). Adoption and feasibility of a communication app to enhance social connectedness amongst frail institutionalized oldest old: an embedded case study. Information, Communication and Society, 21(11), 1681-1699. [More Information]
Neves, B., Casimiro, C. (2018). Connecting families?: Information and communication technologies, generations, and the life course. Online: Bristol University Press. [More Information]
Barbosa Neves, B., Baecker, R., Carvalho, D., Sanders, A. (2018). Cross-disciplinary research methods to study technology use, family and life course dynamics: lessons from an action research project on social isolation and loneliness in later life. In Barbosa Neves, B. & Casimiro, C. (Eds.), Connecting families?: Information and communication technologies, generations, and the life course, (pp. 113-131). Online: Bristol University Press. [More Information]
Neves, B., Waycott, J., Malta, S. (2018). Old and afraid of new communication technologies? Reconceptualising and contesting the ‘age-based digital divide’. Journal of Sociology, 54(2), 236-248. [More Information]
Mead, G., Neves, B. (2018). Recursive approaches to technology adoption, families, and the life course: actor network theory and strong structuration theory. In Barbosa Neves, B. & Casimiro, C. (Eds.), Connecting families?: Information and communication technologies, generations, and the life course, (pp. 41-58). Online: Bristol University Press. [More Information]
Neves, B., Fonseca, J., Amaro, F., Pasqualotti, A. (2018). Social capital and Internet use in an age-comparative perspective with a focus on later life. PloS One, 13(2). [More Information]
Neves, B. (2018). Strategist librarian on social media: Conceptual approach and possibilities of digital marketing in public libraries. Informacao & Sociedade: estudos, 28(3), 323-337. [More Information]
Coghlan, S., Waycott, J., Neves, B., Vetere, F. (2018). Using robot pets instead of companion animals for older people: A case of 'reinventing the wheel'? 30th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI 2018), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

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2017

Neves, B., Rente, R. (2017). Non-aligned? Young non-users of social networking sites: a weberian approach. Sociologia: problemas e praticas, 85, 107-129. [More Information]
Neves, B., Aguiar, N. (2017). Public policy information and libraries school: Brazilian panorama. Informacao & Sociedade: estudos, 27(3), 73-86.
Neves, B., Mead, G. (2017). The interpretive and ideal-type approach: Rethinking digital non-use(s) in a weberian perspective. In Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert (Eds.), Theorizing Digital Divides, (pp. 48-60). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]

2015

Neves, B. (2015). Does the Internet matter for strong ties? Bonding social capital, Internet use, and age-based inequality. International Review of Sociology, 25(3), 415-433. [More Information]
Neves, B., Fonseca, J. (2015). Latent class models in action: Bridging social capital & internet usage. Social Science Research, 50, 15-30. [More Information]
Neves, B., Franz, R., Munteanu, C., Baecker, R. (2015). My hand doesn't listen to me! : Adoption and evaluation of a communication technology for the 'oldest old'. the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Neves, B., de Matos, J., Rente, R., Martins, S. (2015). The ‘Non-aligned’: Young People’s Narratives of Rejection of Social Networking Sites. Young: Nordic journal of youth research, 23(2), 116-135. [More Information]
Franz, R., Munteanu, C., Neves, B., Baecker, R. (2015). Time to retire old methodologies? Reflecting on conducting usability evaluations with older adults. 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2015, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. [More Information]

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2014

Baecker, R., Sellen, K., Crosskey, S., Boscart, V., Neves, B. (2014). Technology to reduce social isolation and loneliness. 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2014, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

2013

Neves, B., Amaro, F., Fonseca, J. (2013). Coming of (old) age in the digital age: ICT usage and non-usage among older adults. Sociological Research Online, 18(2), 22-35. [More Information]
Neves, B. (2013). Social capital and internet use: The irrelevant, the bad, and the good. Sociology Compass, 7(8), 599-611. [More Information]

2012

Neves, B. (2012). Enabling local development through digital cities: Examples from Portugal. In José A. Rio Fernandes, Márcio Moraes Valença, Fernanda Delgado Cravidão (Eds.), Urban Developments in Brazil and Portugal, (pp. 139-157). United States: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Neves, B., Padilha, M. (2012). Information management as a proposal for inclusion in a specialist library. Transinformacao, 24(1), 39-46. [More Information]
Neves, B., Santos, R., Gomes, H. (2012). Structuring the status of technology in social relations: Potential in dialogue between user and library. Informacao & Sociedade, 22(3), 25-31.
Neves, B., Amaro, F. (2012). Too old for technology? How the elderly of Lisbon use and perceive IT. The Journal of Community Informatics, 8(1). [More Information]

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2011

Neves, B. (2011). Information mediation for socio-digital agents: The leap. Ciencia da Informacao, 40(3), 413-424.

2010

Neves, B. (2010). Information policy, information technology and communication and participation in the information society: Focus on digital inclusion from global to local sphere. Transinformacao, 22(1), 47-60. [More Information]

2009

Neves, B. (2009). Are digital cities intelligent? The Portuguese case. International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, 1(4). [More Information]

Selected Grants

2024

The Aged Care of the Future: AI Social Science for Sustainable Ageing and Healthier Societies, Barbosa Neves B, Neves B, DVC Research/Sydney Horizon Fellowship

2023

Understanding the role of digital technologies in addressing loneliness, Peterson A, Barbosa Neves B, Henwood F, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

In the media

Barbara is a regular media commentator with over 200 media contributions. Her work has appeared in the ABC, CBC, SBS, The Guardian, among others. She has written several op-eds for the ABC and The Conversation and appeared in the SBS documentary “What does Australia really think about old people?”

Latest media contributions (2025):

- ABC Op-ed: "Resisting AI hyper-optimism: Why the Artificial Intelligence Summit in Paris should have us all concerned"

- SBS News interview on robots in aged care. TV interview and podcast.Podcast also in Italian.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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