Merits

Assignments

Co-Director for INCLUDE – Centre for Inclusive Studies, an international, cross-disciplinary research centre, University of Borås, August 2024 – ongoing.
Member of the steering group for the Centre for Welfare Studies (CVS), University of Borås, January 2025 – ongoing.
Guest researcher in visual learning and communication, Department of Media and Information Technology (MIT) and Visualization Center C, campus Norrköping, Linköping University, Sweden. January-June, 2020
Academic Advisor in the EU Commission’s Expert Group Horizon 2020: Commission Expert Group to advise on specific ethical issues raised by driverless mobility (Ethics CAD; E03659). The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), EU Commission, Brussels, April 2019-June 2020.
Joint chair of Thesis Supervisors’ and Examiners’ Collegium at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, 2019-2020.
Member/commissioner of the Education Committee for Educations in Library, Information, and IT, Academy 3, University of Borås, June 2016-June 2024.
(Deputy) Programme Manager for the Web Content and Designer programme, University of Borås, 2012-2013.
Director of Studies, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, 2012-2013.

Editorship

Regional Editor at international, peer-review, Norwegian Registry and Web of Science-indexed, open access journal Information Research. 2022-ongoing.
Guest Editor of thematic issue in Journal of Documentation. Special Issue: Time and Temporality in Library and Information Science, vol. 78, issue 1.Co-editors: Haider, J. & Hammarfelt, B. 2021
Assistant Editor of international peer-review and open access journal Human IT. 2008-2010 & 2012-2013.

Review assignments – journals

Informaatiotutkimus
Studies in the Education of Adults
The Design Journal
Journal of Engineering Design
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JoLIS)
The Review of Communication
European Transport Research Review
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T)
Information Research
Journal of Documentation
Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society
Information, Communication & Society
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (formerly Palgrave Communications, Springer Nature)
IEEE CG&A (Computer Graphics & Applications)
HumanIT
Svensk Biblioteksforskning [Swedish Library Research]

Awards

Emerald Literati Best Paper Award. Emerald. Awarded for Haider, J., Johansson, V. & Hammarfelt, B. (2022). Time and temporality in library and information science, Journal of Documentation, 78(1),1—17.

PhD Supervision

Ongoing

Assistant supervisor* to Erik Svallingsson, Uppsala University, planned defense 2029. Working title: Visual Information in Scientific Practice. Research profile: https://www.katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N23-1372

Completed

Assistant supervisor to Pussadee Nonthacumjane, Borås University. Defended 2024. Title: Local information in Thailand: An activity theory analysis of the Provincial University Library Network’s (PULINET) Local Information Working Group. University of Borås. Available: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-32670

Assistant supervisor to Björn Ekström, Borås University. Defended 2024. Title: Winding Paths to Species Reports: Information Practices in Biodiversity Citizen Science. University of Borås. Available: https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-32108