Yi Jiao (Angelina) Tian is a Ph.D. Student supervised by PD Dr. Tenzin Wangmo and Prof. Bernice Elger at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel, having also completed 6-month research exchange visit at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore under Prof. Julian Savulescu and Prof. Michael Dunn. She primarily works on a mixed-methods project investigating the social acceptance and ethical challenges of smart home health technologies in the care of older persons with wishes to age-in-place, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). As part of her Ph.D. project funded jointly by SNF and the Institute of Medical Ethics (UK), she also collects and analyzes original qualitative data on distance caregivers’ perspectives on tech-aided care to ageing parents transnationally. As a research assistant and co-PI, Angelina has conducted systematic reviews of literature, qualitative semi-structured interviews, thematic data analysis, and quantitative survey design and data analysis. She has experiences in student supervision, as well as designed and led postgraduate courses and multi-day workshops in clinical ethics, ageing and ethics, and transnational caregiving. 

As a Chinese-Canadian fluent in English and Mandarin, Angelina’s immigrant and expat experiences in Mainland China, Canada, Germany, UK, and Switzerland have allowed a cross-cultural angle and bilingual flexibility that could be translated to policy, theoretical, and empirical research. With this background, she is able to intimately understand the perspectives of Asian distance caregivers as they negotiate their caregiving responsibilities to promote the well-being of older parents and their own cross-cultural identities during migration. Beyond gerontology, caregiving, and smart technologies, her research interests also lie in clinical ethics, resource allocation, and issues of moral and emotional distress.

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