Veronica Johansson Sydqvist
Associate Professor Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT (including The Swedish School of Library and Information Science)
— Swedish School of Library and Information Science
My research concerns data and visualisations in societal contexts, a broad area of interest that I approach from various critical perspectives with emphasis on critical literacy, critical design, privacy, and ethics.
I have been a guest lecturer in visual learning and communication at the Department of Science and Technology (ITN) at Linköping University and Visualization Center C, Norrköping, and I have held an assignment as academic advisor to the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group to advise on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility (EU CAD; E03659). The report 'New recommendations for a safe and ethical transition towards driverless mobility' was published in September, 2020.
I currently lead the multidisciplinary, national research project CiLC-S - Crowdsourcing LongCovid Sweden.
Ongoing research projects
"From Forest to Plastic: Advancing Tall Oil Rosin as a Green Additive in Polymer Materials", preparatory research within Formas' targeted call on "A chemically safe future". Project duration 2025-11-01 — 2027-04-30, PI Juliana Aristéia de Lima, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, in collaboration with the University of Borås and Gothenburg University.
Awards
Emerald Literati Best Paper Award (Emerald, Aug. 2023).
Assignments
Section editor at Information Research, an international open access peer review journal (June 2023 - ongoing).
Guest lecturer in visual learning and communication at the Department of Science and Technology (ITN) at Linköping University and Visualization Center C, Norrköping, Sweden (January 2020 - June 2020).
Academic advisor to the EU Commission's expert group Horizon 2020 Commission Expert Group to advise on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility (Ethics CAD) (June 2019 - April 2020).
Member of the Committee on educations in libraries, information and IT (August 2018 - ongoing).
Director of studies for the Web content manager and designer programme (November 2012 - December 2013).
Assistant Editor at Human IT , an open access, peer review journal (August 2008 - December 2013).
Assistant Supervisor for the following doctoral students
Supervisor for external doctoral students
- Erik Svallingson. https://www.katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N23-1372
Researcher's publications in DiVA (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet)
Doctoral thesis title
A Time and Place for Everything? Social Visualisation Tools and Critical Literacies
