Project Description

During the fellowship, I will be working through ethnographic data collected in 2023-2024 that explores and maps street-level service journeys of people at the intersection of homelessness and drug use as they seek to navigate digitalized health solutions. With its focus on the relation between digitalization and health inequalities, the project is well suited for collaboration with both SHAPE and PIREAU fellows at AIAS. 

Short Bio

Maj Nygaard-Christensen is associate professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research at Aarhus University. Her work is focused on substance use and social marginalization in the Danish welfare state, a focus developed in projects exploring digitalization at the urban margins, ‘poverty work’ among people on social benefits, a DFF-funded project on COVID-19 and lockdown effects for people relying on low-threshold services, and several projects focused on socially marginalized people with a Greenlandic background living in Denmark. She is further involved in research on use of prescription opioids among young people in Denmark.