Elin Salmiranta

Elin Salmiranta has a background as an IT engineer and business systems consultant but chose to change her career when her son suffered from an acquired spinal cord injury (SCI) in 2014. She discovered many shortcomings within the healthcare system and other parts of the society regarding the care and support for children with SCI and their families, and felt she wanted to do something to create change. Elin read the master’s program Quality Improvement and Leadership of Health and Welfare at the School of Health and Welfare at Jönköping University and finished in 2018. She found the master’s program very rewarding and wanted to continue with research to create change for children with SCI and their families.

Elin has been enrolled as an organizational doctoral student since the spring term of 2020, belonging to the research environment IMPROVE, at the Research School of Health and Welfare at Jönköping University. She is also part of the Forte-funded research group, led by Professor Sofia Kjellström, called SAMSKAPA - Co-creating health & social care: Exploring, measuring and enhancing co-production at the national, regional and local levels. Elin will conduct interactive research related to co-production, with the aim of researching the system surrounding children with SCI and together with families and other stakeholders to co-produce solutions to improve the system. The preliminary title for the thesis is: "Co-production and innovation in the system surrounding children with spinal cord injury".

The principal supervisor is Kristina Areskoug Josefsson, Professor and Associate Professor at the School of Health. Co-supervisors are Marlene Ockander and Daniel Masterson, Associate Professor and Postdoc at the School of Health and Welfare.