Lisa Lindén
About Lisa Lindén
Lisa Lindén is Associate Professor in Sociology and she currently works as a researcher at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. Between 2018 and 2021 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the same department, and was based at the Centre for Science Studies, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University as a guest researcher for two years.
Lisa has previously worked as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg and in the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. She defended her PhD thesis in 2016 at the Department for Thematic Studies -Technology and Social Change, Linköping University.
In her research she draws upon perspectives from Science and Technology Studies (STS). Her research is focused on issues relating to medicine, healthcare, public health, gender and sexuality. Her PhD thesis Communicating Care: The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination Campaigns (Arkiv Academic Press, 2016), is situated to feminist STS studies, and especially to research on care practices. The study contributes to this research through its focus on temporal dimensions of care. In 2016 the PhD thesis won the award for best PhD thesis of the year at the Faculty of Philosophy, Linköping University.
Lisa has previously been a guest researcher at The Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University (May-July 2012, February 2019-January 2021) and The Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego (January-June 2015).
Research interests
STS, feminist theory, care, medicine, gender, sexuality, reproductive and sexual health, public involvement, public health, young people, ethnography, digital media, affect
Current research project
2021-2025 Implementing HPV vaccination for all children in Sweden: gender equality and sexual health among young people, with co-applicant Ylva Odenbring (funded by Forte)
2021-2024 The many meanings of perineal injuries: care-seekers’ and care-providers’ perspectives on second-degree perineal injuries, their implications, and potential to improve care, PI Lisa Guntram, Linköping University (funded by Forte)
2022-2026 Beyond Covid? Using patient knowledge to improve the care and management of Long Covid sufferers, PI Jesper Petersson (funded by Forte)
Awards
2016 Prize for best PhD thesis of the year, Linköping University, 25 000 SEK.
2020 Hans L Zetterberg Prize in Sociology, awarded to "younger researcher, Swedish or foreign, whose scholarly work, preferably through fruitfully combining theory and practice, has move the research front forward", 100 00 SEK.
Teaching
Has extensive experience of teaching in sociology, STS and gender studies.
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 Swedish Sociology Association
• Part of the department's STS research group
• Part of the department's digitalization research group
• Part of the department's feminist research group
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Gender, sex and equal health: school nurses’ strategies and experiences of including boys in the HPV vaccination programme in Swedish primary
schools
Ylva Odenbring, Lisa Lindén
Sex Education : Sexuality, Society and Learning - 2022-01-01 -
The needle pricking and two modes of ‘doing good’ in the Swedish school-based human papillomavirus vaccination
programme
Lisa Lindén, Ylva Odenbring
Sociology of Health and Illness - 2022-01-01 -
Osäkerhet, ansvar och risk: om den gynekologiska cellprovtagningens olika
innebörder
Lisa Lindén
Screeningens mångsidighet: dess möjligheter och utmaningar, reds. Wickström, A, Morberg Jämterud, S. & Zeiler, K. - 2022-01-01 -
Bekräftad och ifrågasatt: hur tidigare patienter upplever könsdysforiutredning vid
Lundströmmottagningen
Lisa Lindén
- 2022-01-01 -
Running out of time: The case of patient advocacy for ovarian cancer patients’ access to PARP
inhibitors
Lisa Lindén
Sociology of Health and Illness - 2021-01-01 -
Unsettling descriptions: attending to the potential of things that threaten to undermine
care
Lisa Lindén, Vicky Singleton
Qualitative Research - 2021-01-01 -
Initiators, controllers, and influencers: Enacting patient advocacy roles in cervical cancer screening policy
practices
Lisa Lindén
Healthcare Activism: Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good (ed. Geiger, S.) - 2021-01-01 -
Biomedicine, patients and care-full critique: Modes of attending to gynaecological cancer
advocacy
Lisa Lindén
London Journal of Critical Thought - 2021-01-01 -
Moving Evidence: Patients’ Groups, Biomedical Research, and
Affects
Lisa Lindén
Science, Technology and Human Values - 2021-01-01 -
Enacting “the patient perspective”: a patient organisation’s assembling and transfer of gynaecological cancer patient
knowledge
Lisa Lindén
Chronic living: quality, vitality and health in the 21st century - 2021-01-01 -
Editorial: Care in
STS
Lisa Lindén, Doris Lydahl
Nordic Journal of Science and Technology studies - 2021-01-01 -
Love and Fear? Affect, Public Engagement and the Use of Facebook in HPV Vaccination
Communication
Lisa Lindén
Science & Technology Studies - 2020-01-01 -
Sexual risks and pleasures: Gynaecological cancer activism and its politics of
care
Lisa Lindén
Engaging health activism, sexual politics and STS, EASST/4S, August 12, 2020 - 2020-01-01 -
Healthcare activism and cervical cancer screening: the HPV test, women and the mobilisation of
evidence
Lisa Lindén
Healthcare activism between markets and morals - tumultuous pasts, bright futures? Interdisciplinary workshop, 20th September 2019, UCD Dublin, Ireland - 2019-01-01 -
Mobilising for change: patients’ groups, care and affective
tensions
Lisa Lindén
"Thinking critically with care", London Conference In Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, July 5-6 - 2019-01-01 -
Mobilising for change: patients’ groups, care and affective
tensions
Lisa Lindén
"Care in STS: objects, transformations and politics", Nordic Science and Technology Studies conference, 13-14 June, Tampere University - 2019-01-01 -
The intimacy of collaboration and resistance: patient organizations, gynecological cancer and changing
lives
Lisa Lindén
”Intimate entanglements in science and technology”, European association for the study of science and technology (EASST), Lancaster, 25-28th July - 2018-01-01 -
The Trouble of Sex: Sex-Determination, Prenatal Diagnosis and
Politics
Lisa Lindén, Helena Tinnerholm Ljungberg
Kvinder, Køn og Forskning - 2018-01-01 -
Empowerment and Stigmatization: Patient Organizations, Gynecological Cancer and Changing
Identities
Lisa Lindén
Medical sociology (Working Group Number: 13), Sociologidagarna. Lund: 7-9 March, 2018 - 2018-01-01 -
HPV Vaccination Campaigns and the Temporalities of
Care
Lisa Lindén
"Care and Tinkering”, 3d Nordic STS conference, University of Gothenburg, May 31-June 2 - 2017-01-01 -
"You will protect your daughter,
right?"
Lisa Lindén
Johnson E. (eds) Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals - 2017-01-01 -
Two shots for
children
Lisa Lindén, Sina Busse
Johnson E. (eds) Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals - 2017-01-01 -
Digitized HPV Vaccination Communication as Promising and Troubling
Care
Lisa Lindén
"Policy and Care (or Care-Full Policy) Exploring Practices, Collectives and Spaces”, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and Society for Social Studies of Science, Barcelona, Aug 31-Sept 3 - 2016-01-01 -
Valuations of experimental designs in proteomic biomarker experiments and traditional randomised controlled
trials
Claes Fredrik Helgesson, Francis Lee, Lisa Lindén
Journal of Cultural Economy - 2016-01-01 -
Communicating care - The Contradictions of HPV Vaccination
Campaigns
Lisa Lindén
- 2016-01-01 -
Review of Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013) and Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (Routledge,
1997)
Lisa Lindén, Mairead Sullivan
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience - 2015-01-01 -
HPV Vaccination Campaigns and Sex as Risk or
Pleasure
Lisa Lindén
"Standardization and Categorical Politics: Gender, Sexuality and Health", Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Denver: 11-14 November - 2015-01-01 -
Valuation Studies: A Collaborative Valuation in
Practice
Gordon Haywood, Johan Nilsson, Michael Franklin, Paul Gilbert, Linus Johansson Krafve, Lisa Lindén, Mark MacGillivray, Robert Meckin
Valuation Studies - 2014-01-01 -
"You Should Feel Like You Are Doing Something Good for Yourself and for Your
Health"
Lisa Lindén
"Anticipation, Anxiety and HPV Vaccine Politics. Global Tensions and Local Enactments”, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Buenos Aires, Argentina: 19-21 August - 2014-01-01 -
Enacting Care Relations Between Girls and Technology in HPV Vaccination
Practice
Lisa Lindén
"Technologies of Care and Participation: Shifting the Distribution of Expertise and Responsibilities”, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Torun, September 16-18 - 2014-01-01 -
“What Do Eva and Anna Have to Do with Cervical Cancer?” Constructing Adolescent Girl Subjectivities in Swedish Gardasil
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Lisa Lindén
Girlhood Studies - 2013-01-01 -
Getting Girls Onboard: Enacting HPV vaccination in
Practice
Lisa Lindén
1st Nordic Science and Technology Studies conference. Trondheim: 24-26 April - 2013-01-01 -
Productions of Mothers' Health Responsibilities in Swedish Gardasil
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Lisa Lindén
British Sociological Association, Human Reproduction Study Group Conference, Lancaster University, June 21 - 2012-01-01