{"id":1541,"date":"2026-08-04T16:47:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/portfolio\/visiting-researcher-information-practices-and-digital-cultures\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:52:32","slug":"visiting-researcher-information-practices-and-digital-cultures","status":"publish","type":"academic_item","link":"https:\/\/www.ahmadinia.fi\/index.php\/portfolio\/visiting-researcher-information-practices-and-digital-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Researcher \u2014 Information Practices and Digital Cultures Research Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"had-pedagogy-course-profile\">\n<p class=\"had-pedagogy-course-summary\">On-site research visit to the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Bor\u00e5s, from <strong>23 August to 13 December 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"had-pedagogy-course-facts\"><span><small>Role<\/small><b>Visiting Researcher<\/b><\/span><span><small>Research group<\/small><b>Information Practices and Digital Cultures Research Group<\/b><\/span><span><small>Host<\/small><b>Professor Ola Pilerot<\/b><\/span><span><small>Location<\/small><b>Bor\u00e5s, Sweden<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<h2>Research and data collection<\/h2>\n<p>The visit supported the doctoral Nordic immigrant-health study. Research activities included qualitative interviewing and structured survey data collection in Sweden: <strong>17 interviews<\/strong> and <strong>106 country-level survey respondents<\/strong>. The 106 Sweden responses form part of the final three-country online survey of <strong>n = 340<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Related outputs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahmadinia, H. (2024). <em>Navigating Cultural, Health, and Information Landscapes: A User-focused Approach to Immigrant Health in a Nordic Context.<\/em> <em>Informaatiotutkimus, 43<\/em>(3\u20134), 29\u201335. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23978\/inf.146185\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.23978\/inf.146185<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ahmadinia, H., Heinstr\u00f6m, J., Eriksson-Backa, K., &amp; Nikou, S. 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