Centre for Health and Interaction

The program helps to develop new knowledge and new solutions to meet future challenges nationally and internationally, and uses various methodological and health science perspectives to realize this. Society and the health service are constantly changing. Ethnic and cultural diversity, complex cohabitation and life situations, and new and complex diagnoses require nuanced and individualized approaches where patients and users are understood as unique individuals and are met in relation to the needs and resources they have.

The health science research in the PhD program emphasizes a clinical foundation. This means that PhD projects are developed and implemented in collaboration with the clinical field and the voluntary sector.

The PhD program is based on a holistic view of humanity and a solidarity-based commitment to people in vulnerable life situations. Vulnerability can be linked to physical, mental, cognitive, existential and sensory conditions, as well as chronic disease states. Such an emphasis is in line with VID's profile, which emphasizes the importance of being committed to people – locally and globally. Implicit in this is a value system in which critical thinking and value awareness are central, and in which human dignity, community and interaction are highlighted as important values.