Wanka, A. & Walsh, K. (2025). Place-bereavement-trajectories: Life-course experiences of loss in rural Irish communities, Journal of Rural Studies 114.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103566

Wanka, A.; Freutel-Funke, T.; Andresen, S. & Oswald, F. (eds.) (2024). Linking Ages – A Dialogue between Childhood and Ageing Research. London: Routledge.

Urbaniak, A. & Wanka, A. (eds.) (2024). Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research. London: Routledge.

Cozza, M. & Wanka, A. (2024). Editorial for the special issue the growing older of humans, nonhumans, and more-than-humans, Journal of Aging Studies.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2024.101305

Wanka, A, Lasser, N, & Hess, M. (2024). The in/visibilisation of education and care: University staff's perceptions of, experiences with, and reaction to the needs of care-giving students, Access: Critical explorations of equity in higher education, Vol. 12, Issue 1, 48–60.

Wazinski, K., Wanka, A., Kylén, M., & Schmidt, S. (2024). Linked Transitions in Later Life – Retiring as Transitional Assemblage in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 1–18.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2024.2430012

Endter, C., Gallistl, V., Peine, A., & Wanka, A. (2024). Altersassemblagen. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 2.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-024-02289-1

Höppner, G., Schadler, C. & Wanka, A. (2024). Process Ontologies and the Many Potential Ethnographies. New Materialisms and Shifting Boundaries Between Humans, Animals and Things. In: Budde, J., Wischmann, A., Rißler, G. & Meier-Sternberg, M. (eds), Novelty, Innovation and Transformation in Educational Ethnographic Research. London: Routledge.

Oswald, F., Wahl, H., Wanka, A., & Chaudhury, H. (2024). Chapter 3: Theorizing place and aging: enduring and novel issues in environmental gerontology. In Handbook on Aging and Place. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Link: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802209983.00013

Gallistl, V.; Hahmann, J.; Höppner, G. & Wanka, A. (2023). Material gerontology – Central thematic intersections and blurring boundaries. Editorial for the Special Issue Material Gerontology, Journal of Aging Studies 68.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101203

Wanka, A.; Schmidt, S.M.; Iwarsson, S.; Oswald, F.; Wazinski, K.; Slaug, B. & Kylén, M. (2023). Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor, Journal of Aging Studies 68.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101191

Gallistl, V. & Wanka, A. (2023). Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life. Journal of Aging Studies 67.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101182

Wanka, A. (2023). My Home is My Castle/My Home is My Prison, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 32(1), 60-81.
Link: https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2023.320105

Endter, C., Depner, A., & Wanka, A. (2023). Introduction to the Special Issue Materialities of Age and Ageing,  Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 32(1), 1-14.
Link: https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2023.320102

Wazinski, K., Wanka, A., Kylén, M., Slaug, B., & Schmidt, S. M. (2023). Mapping Transitions in the Life Course—An Exploration of Process Ontological Potentials and Limits of Situational Analysis. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 24(2).
Link: https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.2.4088

Wazinski, K.; Knopf, L.; Wanka, A. & Hess, M. (2023). Invisible caregivers: The 'hidden lives' of German university students with care responsibilities. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung.

Galčanová Batista, L., Urbaniak, A., & Wanka, A. (2022). Doing ageing research in pandemic times: A reflexive approach towards research ethics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ageing and Society, 1-12.
Link: https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22000733

Freutel-Funke, T.; Müller, H.; Nägler, D.; Wanka, A. & Oswald, F. (2022). Linking Ages – Reflexive Übergangsforschung in Kindheit und höherem Erwachsenenalter durch Interpretationen unter anderen Vorzeichen. Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, Beiheft 68: 98 – 114.

Gallistl, V. & Wanka, A. (2022). The internet multiple – How internet practices are valued in later life. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2022 15(2): 103–126.  
Link: https://doi.org/10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.3563

Höppner, G.; Wanka, A. & Endter, C. (2022). Linking Ages – un/doing age and family in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Journal of Family Research, Special Issue Family Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic in European Societies, Early View, 1–19.
Link:https://10.20377/jfr-727

Höppner, G., & Wanka, A. (2021). un/doing age: Multiperspektivität als Potential einer intersektionalen Betrachtung von Differenz- und Ungleichheitsverhältnissen. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 50 (1), 42-57.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2021-0005

Bischoff, L., Franke A., & Wanka, A. (2021). Resonant Retiring? Experiences of Resonance in the Transition to Retirement. Frontiers in Sociology 6.
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fsoc.2021.723359    

Walther, A.; Stauber, B.; Rieger-Ladich, M.; Wanka, A. (Hrsg.) (2020): Reflexive Übergangsforschung – Theoretische und methodologische Grundlagen. Opladen, Berlin & Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich.

Wanka, A. (2019c). No time to waste – How the social practices of temporal organisation change in the transition from work to retirement. Time & Society, 0(0), 1-24.
Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0961463X19890985

Wanka, A. (2019b). Continuity and Change in the Transition to Retirement: How Time Allocation, Leisure Practices and Lifestyles Evolve when Work Vanishes in Later Life. European Journal of Ageing.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-019-00526-w

Wanka, A. (2019a). Change Ahead—Emerging Life-Course Transitions as Practical Accomplishments of Growing Old(er). Frontiers in Sociology.
Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00045

Gallistl, V.; Parisot, V. & Wanka, A. (2018). Learning to be Old – ‚Doing' Age in the Education of Older Adults. International Journal of Education and Ageing, 4(3), 157-175.

Wanka, A.; Wiesböck, L.; Allex, B.; Mayrhuber, E.; Arnberger, A.; Eder, R.; Kutalek, R.; Wallner, P.; Hutter, H.-P.; Kolland, F. (2018). Everyday discrimination in the neighbourhood: What a 'doing' perspective on age and ethnicity can offer. Ageing and Society, 1-26.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X18000466

Wanka A. & Gallistl, V. (2018).  Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging with Technology. Frontiers in Sociology 3: 6. 
Link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00006

Memberships

• International Sociological Association (ISA), RC11
• European Sociological Association (ESA), RN01
• British Society for Gerontology (BSG)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Sektion Alter(n) und Gesellschaft & Sektion Wissenssoziologie
• Research network “Socio-Gerontechnology" (since 2017)
• DFG-funded research network “Material Gerontology" (2020 – 2023)
• COST-Action Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion: Collaborations in Research and Policy (ROSENet) (2016 – 2020)