Women's Network for Research on Technology and Communication in Health - Department of Neuroscience
Women's Network for Research on Technology and Communication in Health
The Women's Network for Research on Technology and Communication in Health is an interdisciplinary network that includes researchers from the humanities, social sciences, informatics, design, medicine and health.
Our specific focus lies on the application of technology to improve health and healthcare. This is an area that requires dialogue and cooperation across professional disciplines, jargon and cultures, and requires broad involvement at all levels of knowledge development.
The network establishes contact between researchers. This is done through regular meetings and seminars where we discuss research ideas, and collaborate on research projects and publishing. Furthermore, the network constitutes a valuable arena to provide each other with support and feedback with regard to career development and academic exchanges.
An objective of the network is thus to contribute to more female professors and project managers of large, externally financed projects. Additionally, the network aims to foster relations with relevant academic communities both nationally and internationally who work at the intersection of health, communication, technology and organization.
The network was established in 2009 and is today a consolidated network where we have a positive experience of working together. A challenge in the future is to expand domestic and international cooperation, and to ensure a sustainable foundation for the network through planning activities and dissemination.
The network organizes symposia, monthly formal network meetings, and informal network meetings to strengthen the network. Furthermore, each research group organizes additional meetings, in which focus lies on writing applications to both national and EU-projects.
Women's Network on FacebookNetwork members
The network currently has about twenty active participants from various national institutions:
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Norwegian Directorate of Health
- Nord University
- University of Oslo
- SINTEF
PAHI
The network has been responsible for organizing the annual workshop Practical Aspects of Health Informatics, PAHI. Twenty-five scientific articles have been published in proceedings of the workshops.
Workshop proceedings:
Conference proceedings PAHI 2017: Papers on the topic "eHealth communication and the citizen - social, organisational and human aspects" are now available online in the proceedings from the 4th European Workshop on Practical Aspects of Health Informatics (PAHI 2017).
Research Topics
- Clinical Pathways
- Communication Challenges
- eHealth-Technology
Funding
The network has received funds for gender equality from NTNU and research network funding from The Research Council of Norway.
International partners
- NTNU, Norway.
- SINTEF, Norway.
- NORD University, Norway
- Information Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
- Medical Engineering and Informatics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
- University of the Highlands and Islands, Moray College, Scotland.
- Institute for eHealth and Management in Health Care, Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
- Institute of Design Innovation – Glasgow School of Arts, Scotland
- Digital Health and Care Institute – a Scottish Funding Council Innovation Centre, Scotland