Robin Shura

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Dr. Robin Shura is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University Stark Campus. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Case Western Reserve University in 2010. Dr. Shura was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for one year, after which she served eight years on the sociology faculty of Hiram College. Dr. Shura’s research interests include social inequality as explored through age, aging and the life course, health, illness, and health care systems. Dr. Shura also does research about policies and protections related to children’s rights. She enjoys teaching sociological theory, medical sociology, aging in society, law and society, social problems, and courses on childhoods.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS & NATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Calvo, Esteban, Cynthia Córdova, Robin Shura, Kasim Allel, Alvaro Castillo-Carniglia, Kathrine M. Keyes, Christine Mauro, Pia M. Mauro, José T. Medina, Thelma Mielenz, & Silvia S. Martins. Global pain: Age differences in the intensity of chronic pain interference among older adults in 20 countries. Accepted for publication in Journals of Gerontology B: Social Sciences.

Shura, Robin, Brian Gran, & Michelle Gotto (student). (2022). Weak links in independence of independent children’s rights institutions. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. Los Angeles, CA.

Gran, Brian, & Robin Shura. (2022). How independent are independent children’s rights institutions? Presented at International Society for Child Indicators. Gramado, Brazil.

Shura, Robin, & Brian Gran. (2022). “The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children: Key influences in children’s rights promotion.” Book chapter in, “The roles of Independent Children’s Rights Organizations in advancing human rights of children.” Editors Agnes Lux and Brian Gran. Emerald publishers.

Calvo, Esteban, Ariel Azar, Robin Shura, & Ursula M. Staudinger. (2022). A new path to address multimorbidity? Longitudinal analyses of retirement sequences and chronic diseases in old age. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 41(4), 952-961.

Shura, Robin, Esteban Calvo, & Sebastian Opazo. (2022). Older adults’ accounts of the relationships between retirement timing and health: A descriptive qualitative analysis in Chile. Ageing & Society, 42(5) 1054-1078.

Shura, Robin, Esteban Calvo, Ariel Azar, & Ursula M. Staudinger. (2021). New opportunity to address multimorbidity: Longitudinal associations between retirement sequences and chronic diseases in old age. Presented at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (remote conference presentation).

Falletta, Lynn, Stephanie Abbruzzese, Rebecca Fischbein, Robin Shura, Abbey Eng, & Sonia Alemagno. (2020). Work reentry after childbirth: Predictors of self-rated health in month one among a sample of university faculty and staff. Safety and Health at Work, 11(1), 19-25.

Shura, Robin, Lynn Falletta, Geethika Kodukula, Stephanie Abbruzzese, Abbey Eng, Rebecca Fischbein, & Sonia Alemagno. (2020). Work engagement and satisfaction at return to work among a sample of postpartum women. Presented at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (remote conference presentation).

Shura, Robin, Esteban Calvo, & Sebastian Opazo. (2019). Older adults’ accounts of the relationships between retirement timing and health: A descriptive qualitative analysis in Chile. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Aging and Life Course Section. New York, NY.

Shura, Robin, and Dale Dannefer. (2018). Participation of long-term care residents in culture change: Still a challenge and opportunity. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. August. Philadelphia, PA.

Shura, Robin, Brian Gran, and Brian Polk. (2017). Efforts against human trafficking. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. August. Montreal.

Shura, Robin, Elle Rochford (student), and Brian Gran. (2016). Children for sale? The blurred boundary between intercountry adoption and sale of children in the USA. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 36(5/6), 319-334.

Shura, Robin, Dale Dannefer, and Rebecca Siders. (2016). “Why are you asking her to participate?” Coproduction of social reality and data in long-term care. Presented at the annual meetings of the Gerontological Society of America. November. New Orleans, LA.

Meehan, Rebecca, and Robin Shura. (2016). Residents’ perspectives on living with vision impairment in long term care: An unseen factor in quality of life and appropriateness of care. The Journal of Nursing Home Research Sciences, 2, 34-40.