Veronica Johansson

Affiliate at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), Göteborg University (GU) and University College of Borås (HB).

Member of research program BIKT (Libraries, ICT and Learning/Bibliotek, IKT och lärande).

Member of The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction, and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS)

Completed Ph.D. Courses

Autumn/Spring 2006-2007. Theory of Science [Vetenskapsteori]. 7.5 ECTS. November 9 - February 8. [Swedish School of Library and Information Science/Borås].

Autumn/Spring 2006-2007. Perspectives on Learning. 7.5 ECTS. December 18 - March 2. [LearnIT, Göteborg University and the University of Turku].

September 15-17, 2005. Structures of Power: Information, Knowledge and Property. 5 ECTS [Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science (Norslis)/The Institution of Archives, Libraries and Museums, Uppsala University].

Autumn/Spring 2004-2005. LIS Theory and Classics. 7.5 + 7.5 ECTS [Swedish School of Library and Information Science/Borås].

March 14-18 2005. Reflexive Methodology in Political Science, Public Administration and Policy Analysis. 5 ECTS [Politologisk Forskerskole, University of Roskilde, Denmark].

Autumn 2004. Digital Literature. Markup in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 7.5 ECTS [LearnIT & Uppsala University/Uppsala].

Autumn 2004. Research Design II: Methods for Studying Information Behaviour. 7.5 ECTS. [Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science/Oslo].

Spring 2004. Research Design I: Theory and Development. 7.5 ECTS. [Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science/Borås].

Ongoing/Upcoming Ph.D. Courses

Conferences and Workshops

Autumn 2008. ECDL 2008. European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Towards the European Digital Library. September 14-19, Aarhus, Denmark. Paper and poster presentation: "Delegation and Politics in Visual Representations: The Map and the Time Axis as Mediating Tools for the Analaysis and Interaction with Data in Digital Library Applications." See: http://www.ecdl2008.org/

Spring 2008. International LearnIT Conference: Lärande, medborgarskap och nya medier: Utmaningar för informationssamhället. [Engl. transl: "Learning, Citizenship, and New Media: Challenges for the Information Society"]. June 9-10, Wallenberg Conference Center, Gothenburg University.

Spring 2008. LearnIT Conference (Final Meeting), June 11, Wallenberg Conference Center, Gothenburg University.

Spring 2006. Presentation "Digital Data Curation and the Construction of Research Subjects" at workshop Privacy and Networks , Paris, April 3. [Arranged by: ENSSIB (École Nationale Supérieur des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliothèques) and Canadian project On the Identity Trail]. See: http://barthes.ens.fr/atelier/privacy.html

Autumn 2005. Presentation at Research Seminar, November 16, Lunds Universitet.

Spring 2005. The International Document Summer School ’05, Tromsö, Norway, June 27-July 3. [Arranged by the Document Academy (Tromsö, Norway and UC Berkeley, USA) and RTP-DOC (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication, France).

Spring 2005. LearnIT Conference, May 23-24, Novotel, Göteborg. Arranged by LearnIT.

Spring 2005. Presentation at Research Seminar, February 7, Institutionen för ABM, Uppsala University.

Spring 2004. ACH/ALLC 2004 XML/XSLT Workshop, June 9-11, Göteborg University. Arranged by Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Association for Literary Computing (ALLC), and the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

Spring 2004. LearnIT Conference, May 24-26, Lingatan Conference Center. Arranged by LearnIT.

Spring 2003. 11th Bobcatsss Symposium on Information Policy and the European Union. February 2-7, Torún, Poland. Arranged by The Professional University of Amsterdam, Institute for Media and Information Managment & Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun, Department for Library and Information Management.

Spring 2003. Högskolepedagogisk utveckling vid Högskolan i Borås, May 8, University College of Borås. Arranged by Centrum för lärande och undervisning (CLU).

Assignments

Autumn, 2009 - : Doctoral Representative at the Board of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Göteborg university.

Autumn, 2008 - Spring, 2009: Doctoral Representative at the Research Board of the Swedish School of Library and Information Science and Co-chair for the LIS doctoral students' Subject group.

Autumn, 2008 - Spring, 2009: LIS Doctoral Representative at the Doctoral council at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Göteborg university.

Spring 2008: Doctoral Representative at the Research Board of the Swedish School of Library and Information Science and Co-chair for the LIS doctoral students' Subject group.

Autumn, 2005 - Spring, 2006: Doctoral Representative at the Research Board of the Swedish School of Library and Information Science and Co-chair for the LIS doctoral students' Subject group.

Employment and Research Background Information

May 2004: Initiated Ph.D. research and was employed as doctoral student at the University College of Borås and Göteborg University.

January 2004: Received full funding for Ph.D. research from the Swedish Knowledge Foundation's (KK-stiftelsen) research program LearnIT.

October 2003: Received initial three-month's funding from the Swedish Knowledge Foundation's (KK-stiftelsen) research program LearnIT for writing a knowledge overwiew on the subject of "markup of electronic documents and learning."

July 2002: Entered employment as lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) at the University College of Borås.

Completed Courses in Higher Education

Pedagogy for higher education, 15 ects/10 poäng, University College of Borås, 2003

Library and information science, 120 ects/80 poäng, University College of Borås, 1999-2001

Electronic publishing in theory and practice, 7.5 ects/5 poäng, University College of Borås, 2001

English, (D-level/fourth semester), 15 ects/10 poäng (orientation: linguistics), Göteborg University, 1998

English, 120 ects/80 poäng (orientation: literary theory), University of Karlstad, 1993-1995