Doris Lydahl

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About Doris Lydahl

I am a senior lecturer in theory of science, a docent in sociology, and a researcher in science and technology studies. At the moment, I am working on a research project that addresses how individuals suffering from Long Covid in Sweden develop knowledge about their condition through their own and other sufferers' experiences about the condition. 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 hold a PhD in sociology from the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. My research concerns the meeting between policy and practice. I am studying how and when policy is enacted in practice at hospitals, psychiatry and 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.