UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | BERKELEY SOCIAL WELFARE | DOCTORAL PROGRAM
clarab@berkeley.edu
917-480-6050
Clara Berridge
EDUCATION
Ph.D. expected May 2014
University of California, Berkeley, School of Social Welfare
Graduate Certificate in Designated Emphasis Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality
University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: Decision making and use of remote monitoring technology in low-income
independent living residences
Committee: Andrew Scharlach, PhD (Chair); Adrian Aguilera, PhD; Charis Thompson, PhD;
Sharon Kaufman, PhD
M.S.W.
University of Washington, Seattle, School of Social Work
June 2006
Concentration: Public Policy
Specialization: Multigenerational Practice
B.A.
Kalamazoo College
June 2003
Magna cum laude
Education Abroad: Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal, 9 months
Major: Sociology
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Martinson, M. & Berridge, C. (accepted) Successful aging and its discontents: A systematic
review of the social gerontology literature. The Gerontologist
Berridge, C., DeMello, S., Furseth P.I., & Cuthbertson, R. (in press). Technology-based
innovation for independent living: Policy and innovation in the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and
the United States. Journal of Aging & Social Policy
Portacolone, E., Berridge, C., Johnson, J., & Schicktanz, S. (2013). Time to reinvent the sciences
of dementia: The need for care and prevention. Aging and Mental Health
Berridge, C. (2012). Envisioning a gerontology-enriched theory of care. Affilia: Journal of Women
and Social Work, 27(1), 8-21
Berridge, C. & Romich, J.L. (2011). “Raising him to pull his own weight:” Boys’ household work
in single mother households. Journal of Family Issues, 32(2), 157-180
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Book Chapters
Berridge, C. (2014). Seeing the social in technology for older adults: Making the implicit explicit
through a multidisciplinary lens. In H. Vakalahi, G. Simpson, & N. Giunta (Eds.), The Collective
Spirit of Aging Across Cultures. New York: Springer Science & Business Media
Scharlach, A., Berridge, C., & Lehning, A. (2013). Support groups for caregivers. In E. Capezuti,
G. Siegler, & M.D. Mezey (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Elder Care (3rd ed.). New York: Springer
Publishing Company
Other Publications
Berridge, C. (November 2013). Emerging ethical issues for social workers in the use of passive
monitoring technologies. Newsletter for the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work
Scharlach, A.E., Graham, C.L., & Berridge, C. (Oct 31, 2012). ElderHelp Concierge Club
Evaluation Final Report. Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services. University of
California, Berkeley
Berridge, C. (2011). Designing accessible environments: Social workers are on it! Aging Times,
7(3). Newsletter of the Council on Social Work Education Gero-Ed Center, the National Center for
Gerontological Social Work Education
Ryser, R., Korn, L. & Berridge, C. (2008). American Indian Caregiver Policy Study Report: An
analysis with findings of the barriers to federally funded and state and tribally administered
caregiver programs in the State of Washington. Center for World Indigenous Studies: Olympia,
Washington
Berridge, C. & McLeod, A. Guest Columnists. Getting old an expensive prospect; and lack of
affordable housing makes it a whole lot worse. Jul. 25, 2007. Seattle PI
PRESENTATIONS
Berridge, C. (June 18, 2014). Power, ethics and normative logics of intervention in voluntary
remote monitoring for independent living. World Conference of Gerontechnology. Taipei, Taiwan
Berridge, C. (January 31, 2014). The electronic monitoring of elders and care workers:
Untangling emerging practices in private homes and elder care settings. Aging Across Borders: A
Transnational Look at Just Social Policies of Care Symposium. University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, California
Berridge, C. (November 21, 2013). Lived experiences of older adults, family and staff with sensorbased remote monitoring in low-income independent living residences. Gerontological Society of
America Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana
Berridge, C. (November 1, 2013). Ethics of remote monitoring technologies and implications for
social work practice. Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting. Dallas, Texas
Berridge, C. (July 11, 2013). Subjecting one’s self to monitoring: Decision making about the
option to use remote monitoring technologies in low-income independent living residences.
Planning Later Life: Bioethics and Politics in Aging Societies. Göttingen, Germany
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Berridge, C. (Symposium Chair) (November 17, 2012). Navigating ethical considerations for
technology-based services for older adults. Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting.
San Diego, California
Berridge, C. (October 13, 2011). Technology-based innovation for independent living: Building
the evidence base. Leading Thinking and Practice in Service Innovation: 2nd Annual Workshop on
Value Driven Service Innovation. Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Berridge, C. (August 19, 2011). Envisioning a gerontology-enriched theory of care. International
Carework Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada
Berridge, C. (May 22, 2011). Speaking justice to elder care. Unsettling Feminisms Conference.
Chicago, Illinois
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
UC Berkeley Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services
Graduate Student Researcher
2011-2013
Collected and analyzed survey and case study data for the California Villages Project and
ElderHelp Village evaluation; co-authored reports and articles
UC Berkeley Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
(CITRIS), Graduate Student Researcher
2010-2011
Conducted comparative research on public policy and innovative services and technology
for independent living in Japan, the UK, US, and Scandinavia as part of a research
collaboration with the BI Norwegian School of Management; collaborated on survey
development for distribution to 1,100 consumers
University of Washington Department of Medicine–Division of Gerontology and Geriatric
Medicine, Patient Navigator & Research Coordinator
2008-2009
Coordinated pilot study of an intervention to improve communication about treatment and
end-of-life decision making between oncologists and older patients of the Veterans Affairs
Medical Center
Center for World Indigenous Studies / Center for Traditional Medicine, Olympia, WA
Advanced Practicum Student, MSW program
2005-2006
Initiated policy analysis of the National Native American Caregiver Support Program in
WA; designed and conducted interviews with respondents from federal, state, and tribal
governments; co-authored policy report; Analyzed data from NIH clinical study of a stress
reduction therapy with American Indian caregivers of elders with dementia
University of Washington School of Social Work
Research Coordinator
2004-2007
Directed focus group study with boys and single mothers; analyzed ethnographic data on
family care and resources available to low-income families; drafted articles for publication
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Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy, Cornell University, Yoff, Sénégal
Research Trainee
2001
Conducted interviews in an urban fishing village in Wolof and French with girls employed
as housemaids to measure understandings of environmental pollution as related to waste
disposal practices
Environmental Research Group, Philadelphia, PA
Research Intern in Environmental Psychology
2000
Collected use data on cell phones in vehicles; drafted literature review on task interference
PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
Northwest Cooperative Development Center, Olympia, WA
Senior Housing Program Director
2006-2008
Developed limited-equity senior housing technical assistance program for the Pacific
Northwest; received 4-month training in HUD financing and affordable cooperative housing
development at Senior Cooperative Foundation, St. Paul, MN
Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center, Seattle, WA
Practicum Student (MSW program)
2005
Facilitated and promoted Women's Justice Circles, a social action empowerment program;
composed policy issue letters for WA and OR State advocacy; facilitated workshops with
mothers in emergency housing
Medical Care Access Coalition, Marquette, MI
Enrollment Counselor Volunteer
2004
Pike Market Senior Center, Seattle, WA
Poetry Immersion Coordinator
2001
Facilitated poetry workshops with low-income elders with a range of cognitive abilities
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
University of California, Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant
2013
University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship
2012-2013
The Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW) Pre Dissertation
Initiative Award
2011
University of California, Berkeley Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship
2009-2011
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Portland Courtyard Housing Competition Grand Prize (Team member)
International design competition of affordable housing ownership
2007
University of Washington Pre-Masters Research Fellowship
2004-2006
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society
2003
Raymond L. Hightower Award, for excellence in and commitment to the discipline of sociology
and leadership in the Department of Sociology at Kalamazoo College
2003
Elwood H. Schneider Prize in English, for outstanding and creative work in English
2003
Kalamazoo College Human Development and Social Relations Departmental Outstanding
Student Award
2002
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Research Methods, (graduate, two-semesters)
Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare
MSW students design and conduct a program evaluation or secondary data analysis
2013-2014
Public Policy (undergraduate)
Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare
2012
Guest Lecturer, UC Berkeley
2011-2014
School of Public Health: Critical Perspectives on Aging and Health (graduate)
Independent living technologies and services
School of Social Welfare: Aging Processes (graduate, repeated lecture)
The social construction of old age
School of Social Welfare: Immigrants and Refugees: Policies, Programs and Practices (graduate)
Intersections of culture, gender and class in independent living
School of Social Welfare: Social Policy and Gerontology (graduate, repeated lecture)
Implications of consumer-directed care for elders and care workers
Planning to Age in Place: Creating Shared Housing Ownership
Workshop Instructor, University of Washington, Seattle Women’s Center
2007-2009
Freshman Seminar on Civility
Contemporary Poetry
Teaching Assistant, Kalamazoo College
2001-2002
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SERVICE
PhD Student Representative
Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW) Board of Directors
2012-2014
Academic Advisor
“Turning for Home,” a Peloton Productions documentary about aging in place
2013-2014
PhD Student Representative
UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Library Committee
2012-2013
Planning Committee Member
Center for Race & Gender Annual Conference, UC Berkeley
Families on the Faultlines
2009-2010
Member
Northwest Universal Design Council
2007-2009
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work
California Council on Gerontology & Geriatrics
Gerontological Society of America
International Society for Gerontechnology
Society for Social Studies of Science
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