Participating Scholars

Helena Sandberg

Professor in Media and communication studies, Department of Communication and Media (KOM), Lund University, affiliated Professor at the School of Health and Welfare, Halmstad University, Sweden
Contact: helena.sandberg@kom.lu.se

Sandberg has been engaged in health communication research, research on mediated health and digital health for more than two decades, and she is the principal investigator for the HAIDI-project. Her research covers issues related to the role of the media in people’s health development, health experiences and their health practices. She is co-chairing the temporary working group Media Communication and Health within the NordMedia conference, and she is one of the initiators of the Nordic Network for Media Communication and Health (NNMCH). She is the course leader of a highly praised interdisciplinary international master course: Media, health and society (15 ECTS). She is also teaching within the European Global Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH). She is the guest editor of a Special issue: Media and health in everyday life for Mediekultur - Journal of communication and media research, with Dr Anette Grønning, to be published 2023.

Anette Grønning

Associate professor, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark
Contact: ahg@sdu.dk

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Anette Grønning, Associate professor, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Director for the Digital health team in Human health, a platform for interdisciplinary research, to promote health and to reduce health inequalities in DK. Grønning is head of the research project “Digital consultation” (SDU) focusing primarily on older patients’ use of email and video consultations; director of NeMis, Research Group in Networked Media in Society, also advisory board member of the Danish National Board DIGETIK, a forum for ethical challenges in digital research.

Elisa Tiilikainen

Associate professor in social and public policy. Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland

Contact: elisa.tiilikainen@uef.fi

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Elisa Tiilikainen is an Associate Professor (Tenure Track) of Social Work at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland. Her research has focused on loneliness, social relations, ageing in place and the life course. Currently she is leading a four-year project on social exclusion in older people’s home care in Finland.

Fredrika Thelandersson (on leave)

Postdoctoral researcher, department of communication and media at Lund University.

Contact: Fredrika.Thelandersson@kom.lu.se

Fredrika Thelandersson is a postdoc researcher in Media and Communication Studies at Lund University. Her research is broadly situated in the fields of Media, Culture, Gender, and Affect studies, with particular focus on the portrayal of mental illness in popular culture and on social media. She obtained her PhD in Media Studies from Rutgers University in October 2020 with a dissertation titled “Sad Affects and Contemporary Women’s Media: Depression, Anxiety, and Neoliberal Postfeminism in the Post-Recessionary West.” A revised version of the dissertation is forthcoming as a book with Palgrave MacMillan.

Amalie Søgaard Nielsen

Postdoctoral researcher, department of the study of culture at University of Southern Denmark.
Contact: amani@sdu.dk

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Amalie Søgaard Nielsen is a post doctoral researcher at department of the study of culture at University of Southern Denmark. She obtained a PhD in Medicine, Culture and Society in July 2022 with the title “Use and non-use of patient–reported outcomes among people with inflammatory bowel disease”. Amalie’s research has been focusing on digital health literacy as a concept and its relation to acceptance of digital health solutions

Hanna Varjakoski

Project Researcher, Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland
Contact: hanna.varjakoski@uef.fi

Hanna Varjakoski is a project researcher at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland. She is currently finalizing her doctoral thesis which is situated at the intersection of cultural gerontology, humanistic media studies and gender studies, and investigates media portrayals of ageing, older people and later life. Her other academic interests has focused on older people's neighbour relations and networks, and cultural construction of health and wellbeing in media.

Freja Morris

Project Researcher, Department of Communication and Media, Lund University

Contact: freja.morris@soc.lu.se

Freja Morris is a project researcher in the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. In February 2025, she will defend her doctoral thesis in Sociology at Lund University, titled Impervious Documents: Exploring the Allure of Documentation in Swedish Compulsory Schools. She is interested in material culture, knowledge production and public sector governance and draws upon Science and Technology Studies, theories of affordances and institutional ethnography to explore these issues.

Scientific advisory board

Håkan Jönsson, Professor, Lund University, Sweden

Karen Munk, Associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen, Professor, University of Lapland, Finland

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