back

Bas Dikmans

  • category
    senior researcher
  • research group
    Society and Ageing Research Lab (SARLab)
  • keywords
    demography & population
    migration & diversity
    politics & policy

Bas Dikmans focuses on older adults' civic engagement in urban contexts, with a particular interest in life course and environmental approaches.

His work particularly revolves around Brussels, and his background is in qualitative research, adult education, and cultural anthropology. He currently works at the University of Ghent as a postdoctoral assistant for the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogical Sciences. His research focuses on how older adults' civically engage in their neighborhoods, using life course and environmental perspectives, while focusing on different groups in urban contexts, such as residents of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods or older migrants.