Greetings!
By way of introduction, I grew up in Arizona, where I received a BFA at the
University of Arizona. Left the US 1970 and settled in Sweden, where I have
worked as an actress, dancer, translator, mental health worker, school
teacher and single mother of five children. Returned to the university 1992,
took my Master's and have recently received my Ph.D. in International and
Comparative Education, Stockholm University. I am now employed at
Karolinska institutet, where I work as Research Coordinator for a newly
established International Center for Research on Migration, Medicine and
Psychiatry and as a researcher. My research interests focus on knowledge
construction in a broad perspective (The topic of my thesis), including the
study of conceptual schemes, which underlie - in my perception - what we
conceive of as knowledge and reflect our perceptions of reality and, in
extension, influence our conceptualisations, as individuals, as researchers.
I was raised as Roman Catholic and educated in Catholic girls' schools. My
worldview is influenced by my upbringing and education, but not limited to a
Roman Catholic view. Inasmuch as I work with medical and psychiatric
research ..transculturell processes .. among groups of immigrants and the
relations between social, individual and community-based values and norms
(and how they interact with each other) are gender and the practice of
religion topics of interest to me, both with reference to knowledge
construction and migration.
Mina
Mina O'Dowd, Ph.D.
Novum Research Center
Family Medicine Stockholm
MigraMed
Karolinska institutet
141 57 Huddinge, Sweden
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