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Doris Lydahl

Senior Lecturer

Linguistics and Theory of Science unit
Telephone
+46 31-786 45 54
+46 766-18 45 54
Mail
doris.lydahl@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
C535
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Director of Studies

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science
Telephone
+46 31-786 45 54
+46 766-18 45 54
Mail
doris.lydahl@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Doris Lydahl

I am a senior lecturer in theory of science, associate lecturer in sociology, and a researcher within the field of science and technology studies. My research concerns the meeting between policy and practice. I am studying how and when policy is enacted in practice at for example hospitals, in psychiatry and in elderly care. Specifically, I am interested in what is often taken for granted: the mundane, ordinary and routine-like everyday work and procedures. Building on insights from science- and technology studies I see mundane and everyday practices as places where policy, science and technology meet and enact their normativities, values and orders and where these are transformed and adapted.

I am currently working on three research projects. I am leading the research project What is good in higher education? An empirical ethics study of relational pedagogy funded by the Swedish Research Council. Jakob Lundgren is also involved in the project. I am participating in the artistic research project Visions of care – drawing as a method for seeing the relations between how care is visualised and how it is valued in home care services, which is led by Helena Cleeve and funded by the Swedish Research Council. Finally, I am participating in the project Beyond Covid. Using patient knowledge to improve the care and management of long-covid sufferers, led by Associate Professor Jesper Petersson and funded by Forte. Associate Professor Lisa Lindén is also participating in the project.

I have previously researched welfare technology in elderly care in a project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. Before that, I was a postdoc at the University of Tampere. I received my PhD in June 2017 from the Department of Sociology and Work Science.

 

Research projects

2024 -What is good in higher education? An empirical ethics study of relational pedagogy (VR)

2024 - Visions of care – drawing as a method for seeing the relations between how care is visualised and how it is valued in home care services (VR)

2022- Beyond Covid? Using Patient Knowledge to Improve the Care and Management of Long Covid Sufferers (FORTE)

2020-2023 The Values of Welfare Technologies (funded by RJ).

Research interests

STS, care, welfare practices, patient knowledge, values digitalization, technologies in care and medicine, and ethnography.

Teaching

I have extensive experience of teaching in theory of science, sociology, STS, social work and qualitative methods.

Collaboration

  • Member of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
  • Member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
  • Member of the Socio-Gerontechnology Network