Elin Salmiranta

Doctoral Student
Research School of Health and Welfare , School of Health and Welfare

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.

Article

Salmiranta, E., Areskoug Josefsson, K., Ockander, M., Augutis, M., Masterson, D. (2024). The voice of caregivers of children and adolescents with spinal cord injuries: A scoping review. More information
Salmiranta, E., Areskoug Josefsson, K. (2021). From lost in the system to empowered parent-researcher Journal of Patient Experience, 8. More information
Etzgaard, P. Hultling, C. Salmiranta, E. Lyckow, V. Augutis, M. Levi, R. , ... Stenberg M. (2020). Kasta inte ut barnet med badvattnet Dagens Medicin. More information

Book chapter

Salmiranta, E. (2022). Can you hear a million voices?. In: Why research matters 2022: A collection of spinal cord research from around the worldMore information

Conference paper

Salmiranta, E. (2024). The (unheard?) voices of caregivers in pediatric spinal cord injury research. Improvement Science Day, Jönköping Academy for improvement of Health and Welfare, 29 February 2024, Jönköping, Sweden. More information
Salmiranta, E., Andersson, J. (2023). Utbrändhet och återhämtning. Föräldrakurs RG Aktiv rehabilitering, 29 juni-6 juli, Sölvesborg. More information
Salmiranta, E., Jansson, S. (2023). Ungdom + förälder. Föräldrakurs RG Aktiv rehabilitering, 29 juni-6 juli, Sölvesborg. More information
Salmiranta, E. (2023). Forska som förälder. ILCO familjedagar, 18-21 maj, Karlskoga. More information
Salmiranta, E. (2022). From lost in the system to empowered parent-researcher. Journalen 10 Years Anniversary, 9-10 November 2022, Stockholm. More information
Salmiranta, E. (2022). Can you hear a million voices?. 17:th meeting of the Nordic Spinal Cord Society, May 5-7, 2022, Stockholm. More information
Salmiranta, E. (2022). Att forska som förälder. Presentation på kurs: Föräldrakurs RG Aktiv Rehabilitering, 5 juli, 2022. More information
Salmiranta, E., Batalden, P., Haywood, C., Johnson, J. (2021). Building bridges to support self-care. Arena for co-production 2020, webinar, 20 October 2021. More information
Salmiranta, E. (2021). The strengths and risks of being a parent and a researcher. The Microsystem Festival 2021, 1-4 March, 2021. More information
Salmiranta, E. (2021). Can you Hear a Million Voices?. Howard H. Steel 2021 Conference on Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury\Dysfunction, December 8-11, 2021, Orlando, Florida, USA. More information
Salmiranta, E. (2020). Children with long-term illness plan their own health improvement projects. 24th Rehabilitation World Congress 2020, September 8-10, 2020, Aarhus, Denmark. More information

Blog Post

Other publications

Salmiranta, E., Masterson, D., Ockander, M., Augutis, M., Areskoug Josefsson, K. (2022). The voice of caregivers to children and adolescents with Spinal Cord Injury: a scoping review protocol [protocol]. More information
Lind, C., Salmiranta, E. (2021). Making the Most of the Conference with a Conference Buddy [blog post]. More information