PhD Candidate in Science and Technology Studies for the DigiFrailCare project

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The Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture is part of the Faculty of Humanities at NTNU, located at the Dragvoll campus in Trondheim. The department has 25 permanent employees, including research scientists. There are currently approximately 25 PhD candidates, post docs and temporary employees. The department teaches and conducts research in two areas: Gender studies and Science and technology studies (STS). Teaching is provided at all levels, including PhD. More info can be found at www.ntnu.no/kult . 

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About the position

DigiFrailCare targets digitalization and the use of digitised health data to improve health services for older people at risk of or with frailty. Frailty refers to age-related physical debility; a complex condition characterised by a cumulative decline across multiple physiological systems and increasing vulnerability to adverse health outcomes and death. Sustainable health services for frail older people are highly needed. Three PhDs and one postdoc will work together with an interdisciplinary supervision project team from three faculties and departments to tackle the grand challenges of frailty. This will be done on a medical, a technical, and a societal (STS) expertise level from the three respective PhDs and their faculty affiliation, with an interdisciplinary focused postdoc to integrate the findings across disciplines. The project will impact future multidisciplinary work models for frailty to improve health and function in older people, for the sake of improved and sustainable future health care services.  

We will innovate health care by using the opportunity the Health Platform (helseplattformen) offers to develop a new service that facilitates collaboration between health professionals, introduce tools that support decision-making and personalisation of intervention, thus facilitating prevention.   

Your immediate leader is Head of department