Maryam Haghshenas
PhD candidate at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Haghshenas is a PhD student at the department of Public Health and Nursing at NTNU, with a background in occupational therapy. Her research focuses on the sustainability aspects of digitalization within the healthcare and social security service in Norway. While digital technologies have great potential, they might not always be mainly advantageous. In fact, the digital transformation of our societies might in many cases act as a barrier for sustainable transformations. In her PhD, Haghshenas tries to increase knowledge about how digitalization is experienced, with the aim of providing better services for citizens, as well as contributing to having a more sustainable society.
Tell us about your project!
My project is part of "sustainable digital transformation" project, where we aim to investigate the relation between digitalization and sustainability, as well as the consequences they have for the society. More specifically I will look into the digital collaboration between healthcare and social security service in Norway (NAV) with the focus on people with long-lasting and complex pain conditions. New care pathway for this patient group has opened the possibilities of trying out new digital collaborative methods in order to better help the patients receive the required service from NAV. We aim to focus on the social aspects of sustainability and shed light on how the digitalization is experienced by the users, who will be affected by the collaboration between health and social security service.
“My project is part of "sustainable digital transformation" project, where we aim to investigate the relation between digitalization and sustainability, as well as the consequences they have for the society.”
— Maryam Haghshenas on her research project “Sustainability of digital collaboration between social security service and healthcare service”
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