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Professor Pauline Garvey is a Professor of Anthropology at Maynooth University, Ireland. She holds a PhD from University College London (2002), MPhil from the University of Cambridge (1994), and BA from University College Dublin (1991). Her interdisciplinary research focuses on material culture, design anthropology, and aging in the digital era. She leads the ERC-funded 'SmartPhoneSmartAgeing' project, exploring smartphones' role in health and aging. Key publications include Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland (2021) and Unpacking IKEA (2018).
- Education: PhD Anthropology (UCL), MPhil Archaeology (Cambridge), BA Archaeology (UCD)
- Research: Smartphones and aging, Nordic domesticity, ethnographic collections
- Editor of Home Cultures journal since 2013
Research projects include €521k ERC funding for smartphone-aging studies (2018–2022) and Irish Research Council-funded work on IKEA consumer culture. Awards include the 2021 AVA Multimodal Award for visual ethnography on aging. She advises Queens University Belfast as an external examiner and collaborates internationally with institutions like UCL and the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Teaching roles include redesigning the Anthropology postgraduate curriculum (2021) and establishing the Susan Hunter Scholarship in Material Culture. Current projects include social prescribing platforms and online property sales research. She chairs ethics committees and serves on UNESCO consultancies, reflecting her leadership in academic and civic initiatives.
