| Doris Lydahl, PhD University of Gothenburg, Sweden Twitter: @DorisLinnea Webpage |
I am a researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science, with an interest in questions regarding care practices, technologies of care and medicine, and the home as a place of care. My research interest lies in the intersection of sociology and STS. Currently, I lead a 3-year research project about welfare technologies, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Welfare technology is the latest buzzword in Nordic health and welfare policy. It is imbued with hope to solve what has been called a twofold crisis of a rapidly ageing population on the one hand, and a care deficit on the other. In my explorative and ethnographic project I aim to explore the introduction of welfare technologies in Swedish municipal elderly care, with the aim to discern how care personnel and elderly persons interact with welfare technology, and what values and expectations about welfare, care work and technology are articulated.
Recent publications
Lydahl, D., Holmberg, S., Günther, K., & Ranta, J. (2020). Doing data together–affective relations and mobile ethnography in home visits. Qualitative Research, 1468794120917913.
Lydahl, D., & Hansen Löfstrand, C. (2020). Doing good: autonomy in the margins of welfare. Sociology of Health & Illness, 42(4), 892-906.
Lydahl, D. (2019). ‘It is not a pill’. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 7(2), 4-14.