F. Ahmadi,
Professor in sociology
Curriculum vitae
2013- 01-01
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Fereshteh Ahmadi, Professor in Sociology
Department of Social Work and Psychology
Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies
University of Gävle
Department of Sociology
Uppsala University
Box 821
751 08 Uppsala
Sweden
Phone:
(+46)(26) 648207
E-mail:
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Homepage:
http://www.hig.se/faw
Short presentation
Fereshteh Ahmadi is Professor of sociology (at the Department of Caring Sciences and Sociology,
University of Gävle). Ahmadi concluded her Ph.D in sociology at Uppsala University in 1995 and
became associate professor in 2001 at the same unvieirsty. Her Ph.D thesis, Iranian Islam and the
Concept of the Individual, deals with the problem of the non-development of the concept of the
individual in Iranian ways of thinking. This work is written in two distinct parts, one written by her,
and the other by Nader Ahmadi. There, Fereshteh Ahmadi explains the cognitive and philosophical
obstacles to the development of the concept of the Individual in Iranian society. To do so she draws on
the existing discrepancy between the idea of concern for the individual prevailing in modern Western
ways of thinking and the idea of self-annihilation, prevailing in Iranian ways of thinking. Fereshteh
Ahmadi is now working as a researcher, presently specializing in issues related to gerontology and
spirituality. Besides, she does research on gerontology, international migration and Religious and
spiritual coping at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University and at the Department of Caring
Sciences and Sociology, University of Gävle, where she is a Senior Lecturer. She has also done
research on Islamic Feminism, , Music and Coping at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala
University, and Religious and Spiritual Coping at Department of Social Work and Psychology,
University of Gävle.
Education and Degrees
Professor, at the Department of Caring Sciences
and Sociology, University of Gälve
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F. Ahmadi,
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Associate professor, at Department of sociology
Uppsala University, Sweden, ,
2001
PH.D. in Sociology, Ph.D., at Department of sociology
Uppsala University, Sweden
1995
Sociology, B.S., at Department of sociology
Uppsala University, Sweden,
1988
Economics, Tehran University, Iran,
1978-1982
Employment
Doctoral Fellow ship
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Uppsala university
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Postdoctoral fellow (Assistant professor)
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Research Interests
Religious and spiritual coping
Music and coping
Islam and feminism
Sufism and its impact on the development of the conception of the Self
Aging and Psychological and Spiritual Development
Aging in a migration Perspective
International Activities
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Ahmadi was invited to lecture at the Institute of Public Health, Research Unit of Health Man
and Society, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Danmark,
May 2-3, 2012.
Fereshteh Ahmadi was invited to lecture at the Chukyo University, Faculty of
Contemporary Sociology, Nagoya, Japan. 17 June 2010Fereshteh Ahmadi was invited
to lecture at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Social Sciences and
Humanities, Tokyo, Japan. 24 June 2010.
Ahmadi was invited to lecture at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Social
Sciences and Humanities, Tokyo, Japan. June 24, 2010.
Fereshteh Ahmadi was the keynote speaker at the “Conference on Research in Faith and
Health in Secular Society”, The University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. May
18 2010.
Fereshteh Ahmadi was invited as a keynote speaker at conference on “women’s Movements in
Middle-East and Turkey: Experiences, Gains and Problems within the Socio-Cultural and
Historical Process”. Conference was organized by “Research Canter for Female Labour and
Employment” and “Department of sociology” at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, Mars
7-9, 2008.
Fereshteh Ahmadi was invited by The Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State
University, Bowling Green, Ohio to present in October 2004 her research concerning The
religious and spiritual coping strategies among cancer patients. Her trip is financed by
STINT (The Swedish Foundation for Internationalization of Swedish Research and Higher
Education).
Fereshteh Ahmadi was invited by The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science,
Stanford University for collaborating with the research group at The Psychosocial Treatment
Laboratory in relation to her study on the religious and spiritual coping strategies among
cancer patients. She worked during her visit - April-June 2003 - at Stanford School of
Medicine. The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) has financed
Fereshteh Ahmadi‘s visit to Stanford.
Fereshteh Ahmadi was responsible for an exchange program for teachers and students Linnaeus-Palme - between the Department of Caring Sciences and Sociology at the
University of Gävle and the Department of Sociology at the University of Tehran in Iran.
Fereshteh Ahmadi has been invited as the keynote speaker at the British Society of
Gerontology Annual Conference 1999 in Bournemouth, September 1999. The conference was
organized by Bournemouth University and the University of Southampton.
Evaluator of a research project for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2006.
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Member of the scientific committee for the evaluation of the abstracts sent for the
World conference on the Social Work and Social Development, July 2012, Stockholm.
Editorial board and Reviewer of books and articles (selected)
Member of Editorial board of Sociologisk Forskning (Sociological Research), 2008-20111.
Ahmadi has been reviewer of several manuscripts. Some of them are listed below:
Reviewer for three manuscripts for publishing in ”Mental Health Religion & Culture”. 20092011.
Reviewer for a manuscript for publishing in “Health and Quality of Life Outcomes” 2007.
Reviewer of a manuscript for publishing in International Migration, 2006.
Reviewer of a manuscript for publishing in “Housing, Theory and Society” 2003.
Reviewer of a manuscript for publishing in ”Sociologisk forskning” 2001.
Main responsible for a number of research projects at the Uppsala University and University of
Gävle:
The old Flying Dutchmen: Shuttling immigrants with double assets (1995-1996). Uppsala
University. The project was financed by The Swedish Council for Social Research and The
Faculty of Social Sciences at the Uppsala University.
The impact of "ways of thinking" on gerotranscendence and wisdom (1997-1999). Uppsala
University. The project was financed by The Swedish Council for Social Research and The
Faculty of Social Sciences at the Uppsala University. For more information see:
http://www.soc.uu.se/research/gerontology/current.html (2001-2006).
Religious and spiritual coping methods among cancer patients. Uppsala University. The
project was financed by The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research.
Islamic Feminism. A case of Study of Islamic Feminism in Iran (2001-2006). Uppsala
University. The project was financed by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
Music as a coping method: a study of the role of music in coping with cancer from patients'
perspective (2006-2009). Uppsala University. The project is financed by The Swedish
Research Council.
A Survey study on Religious and spiritual coping methods among cancer patients. University
of Gävle. Financed by the University of Gävle.
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Publication
Books
1. Ahmadi, Fereshteh & Liljan, My.
(unaccompanied refuge children) (ed.).
(forthcoming).
Ensamkommande
flyktingbarn
2. Larsson, Sam & Ahmadi, Fereshteh & Knez Igor & Michailakis, Dimitris. (forthcoming
2012), Psykosocial (o)hälsa, ledarskap och hälsofrämjande arbetsliv (Psychosocial (un)health,
leadership and health promotion work (ed.)
3. Ahmadi, Fereshteh (2008). Kultur och Hälsa (Culture and Health). Lund: Studentlitteratur.
4. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (2006). Culture, Religion and Spirituality in Coping; The Example of
Cancer Patients in Sweden. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.
5. Ahmadi, Nader & Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1998). Iranian Islam; The Concept of the Individual.
MacMillan Press.
6. Ahmadi, Fereshteh & Ahmadi, Nader. (1995). Iranian Islam and the Concept of the Individual;
On the Non-Development of the Concept of the Individual in the Ways of Thinking of
Iranians, Uppsala university Press. Uppsala
Chapter in a Book:
7. Ahmadi, Fereshteh & Ahmadi, Babak (forthcoming) Ethnic identity: a study of second
generation Iranians in Sweden; I Hossein Hosseini (ed.) Iranian in Sweden. Mångkulturell
centrum.
8. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (forthcoming) Ensamkommande barn i ett internationellt och nationellt
perspektiv (Unaccompanied children in an international and national perspective), i F. Ahmadi
& M. liljan. Ensamkommande flyktingbarn (Unaccompanied refuge children) (ed.).
9. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (forthcoming). Coping och arbetsliv: Arbetsliv som en coping-strategi
(Coping and working Life: working as a coping strategy), i S. Larsson, F. Ahmadi, & I. Knez
& D. Michailakis. Psykosocial (o)hälsa, ledarskap och hälsofrämjande arbetsliv (Psychosocial
(un)health, leadership and health promotion work (ed.)
10. Ahmadi, Fereshteh (2010) Kultuuriperspektiiviline uurimus Rootsi vähipatsientide
religioossetest ja vaimsetest toimetulekumeetoditest (A study of the religious and spiritual
coping methods among Swedish cancer patients from a cultural perspective) i Inimene, tervis
ja haigused - Terviseteemaline artiklikogumik "Medica" (Human, Health and Illnesses.
Health-concerned article collection "Medica").
11. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (2008) “kulturens indvirkning på åndlig coping med kraef” i N. C. Hvidt
& C. Johansen (red.) kan bjerge flytte Troen. Copenhagen: Gyldenda, Nordisk forlag: 211-232
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12. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (2008) ”Den postmoderna islamiska feminismen i Iran och religionens
tillfälliga aspekter”, i Svensk religionshistorisk årsskrift 2006-2007 årsskriften. Svenska
Samfundet för Religionshistorisk forskning. Swedish Science Press.
13. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh (2005). Elderly Migrants and the Concept of Home: A Swedish
Perspective. Home or a place to live? in Home and Identity in Later Life. International
Perspectives (eds. Graham, D. Rowles & Habib Chaudhury). New York: Spring Publishing
Company.
14. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh & Lewin, Bo. (2003) Sexualitet och heder: Identitet i kris hos unga
människor med utländsk bakgrund i N. Ahmadi (ed.) Ungdom, kulturmöte, identitet.
Stockholm: Liber AB.
15. Fereshteh Ahmadi Lewin. (2002). "The Late Modern Age and Adoption to Social and Value
Changes in Later Life", in Gomes N.B, Bigestans A., Magnusson, L. Ramberg, I. (eds)
Reflections on Diversity and Change in the Modern Society. Stockholm: Multicultural centre.
16. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh & Tornstam, Lars. (2000). Elderly Iranian Immigrants in Sweden,
Vol. II Social and Environmental Issues of Aging. Tehran. Goroh Banoval Nikokar
publishing.
Articles published in international journals:
17. Ahmadi, Fereshteh (forthcoming). Music as a method of coping with cancer: a qualitative
study among cancer patients in Sweden. Art and health.
18. Joakim, Landahl & Fereshteh, Ahmadi (2012). Mode, senmodernitet, identitet. (Fashion, late
modernity, identity). Sociologisk Forskning, årgång 49, nr 2, 2012, s. 129–144.
19. Ahmadi, Fereshteh (2011). Song lyrics and the alteration of self-image. Nordic Journal of
Music Therapy, 20(3):225-241.
20. Ahamdi, Fereshteh. & Norberg, Maria. (2010). Aggressiv musik som copingstrategi
(Aggressive music as a coping method) Socialmedicinsk tidskrift 87(2):78-86) (Journal of
Social Medicine), Tema Kultur och hälsa.
21. Ahmadi, Fereshteh (2009). Hard and Heavy Music: Can It Make a Difference in the Young
Cancer Patients’ Life? Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 9(2). Retrieved July 2,
2009, from http://www.voices.no/mainissues/mi40009000302. Published by GAMUT (The
Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre)/University of Bergen in affiliation with
Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.
22. Ahmadi, Fereshteh (2006) Islamic Feminism in Iran: Feminism in a New Islamic Context.
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 22(2): 33-54. (The article got recognition as the
Honorable Mention for the Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion’s New Scholar Award for
2006).
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23. Ahmadi Lewin Fereshteh. (2001), Gerotranscendence and Different Cultural Settings. (2001).
Ageing and Society 21(4):395-415.
24. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh. (2001). Investigating the Religious and Spiritually-oriented Coping
Strategies in the Swedish Context: A review of literature and directions for future research.
Illness, Crisis & Loss 9(4):336-356.
25. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh. (2001). Identity Crisis and Integration. The divergent Attitudes of
Iranian Immigrant Men and women toards Integration into Swedish society. International
Migration 39(3):121-135.
26. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh. (2001). The Meaning of Home among Elderly Immigrants:
Directions for Future Research and Theoretical Development. Housing Studies 16(3):353-370.
27. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (2000) Abendländisches Gedankengut im Rahmen des islamischen
Feminismus im Iran. Inamo, nr 21/6:38-41.
28. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh. (2000). Gerotranscendence and Life Satisfaction: Studies of
religious and secular Iranians and Turks. Journal of Religious Gerontology 12 (1):17-41.
29. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (2000). Reflections on Spiritual Maturity and Gerotranscendence:
Dialogues with Two Sufis. Journal of Religious Gerontology 11 (2):43-74.
30. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (2000). Sufi Conception of Self and of "Other-than-Self". Journal of
Aging and Identity 5(3):137-149.
31. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1998). Sufism and Gerotranscendence: The impact of way of Thinking,
Culture and Aging on Spiritual Maturity, Journal of Aging and Identity 3(4):189-211.
32. Ahmadi, Fereshteh & Tornstam, Lars. (1996). The Old Flying Dutchman: Shuttling Immigrant
with Double Assets. Journal of Aging and Identity 1(3): 191-210.
Articles published in the Swedish journals:
33. Feministisk tolkning av Koranen (20 augusti, 2008). Svenska Dagbladet, Under strecket.
34. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh & Lewin Bo. (2002). Är blod tjockare än vatten?. Invandrare &
Minoriteter, nr 2/2002:1014.
35. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh. (2000) Hemmets betydelse för äldre invandrare: En
litteraturöversikt och riktlinjer för fortsatt forskning och teoribildning (The Meaning of Home
among Elderly Immigrants: Directions for Future Research and Theoretical Development)
Working paper No 29. The Institute for Housing Research (IBF).
36. Ahmadi Lewin, Fereshteh. (2000) Islam och feminism. Sofia: centrum för kvinnoforskning
(Centre for Feminist Research):2000:1.
37. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1999). Islamisk feminism och västerländska idéer i Iran. Kvinnor och
Fundamentalism, nr 6/99:5-13.
38. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1999). Pendlande iranska äldre bygger broar mellan kulturer. Äldre i
Centrum, årgång. 13, nr.1/99:16-19.
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39. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1997) Identitetsproblem och skilda attityder gentemot det svenska
samhället hos iranska flyktingmän och kvinnor, Invandrarrapport, årg. 25, nr 2/97:14-20.
40. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1997). Pendlande iranska äldre bygger bro mellan kulturer. Invandrare &
Minoriteter, nr 6/97:36-39.
41. Ahmadi, Fereshteh & Tornstam, Lars. (1996) Den Gamla Flygande Holländarna: Pendlande
invandrare med dubbla tillgångar, Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, årg.73, nr 7-8/96:379-384.
42. Ahmadi, Fereshteh & Nader Ahmadi. (1995) Iranierna i Sverige: annorlunda individbegrepp,
Invandrare & Minoriteter, nr 6/95:16-21.
43. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1994). Iranska flyktingars identitetsproblem, Kvinnor &
Fundamentalism, nr.2/94:14-17 & 34.
Articles in Persian:
44. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (2000) Mohajeran-e Irani v bohran-e mohajerat (Iranian Immigrants and
Identity crisis). Andishe Jamehe nr.17.
45. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1999). Feminism-e eslami dar Iran (Islamic feminism in Iran), Avay-e
Zan (Persian language quarterly women's bulletin), nr.35-36/99:11-16.
46. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1998). Aya dar jammeh-e ma an payehayeh fardi v ejtemaii myane afrad
ke baraye-e takamole-e demokraci zarorist hozor darad? (Does it exist in Iranian society the
social and individual prerequisites necessary for a development towards democracy?), Payame Iran (A Persian journal of political science), nr.4-5/98:272-284.
47. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1997). Bohran-e hovviat (Identity Crisis), Pooyesh (A Persian SocioCultural Review), vol.9, nr.31-32/97:71-79.
48. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1997). Emtena'-e mafhom-e fard dar tafakor-e irani (The Nondevelopment of the Concept of the Individual in the Iranian Ways of Thinking), Kiyan
(Monthly Persian language journal in the field of philosophy and religion), vol.6, nr.34/97:5257.
49. Ahmadi, Fereshteh. (1995). Aya farhang-e Irani Tahamol-e Digar-andishi ra Nadarad? (Has
the Iranian culture any tolerance for the non-confirmentory thoughts?), Kankash (A Persian
journal of history and politics), nr.12/95:86-123.
Paper presented at conference:
1. Nature as the Most Important Coping Strategy with Cancer: A Swedish Survey.
Presented at the symposium Spirituality and coping with disease, at European Conferecne on
Religion, spirituality and Health, May 19, 2012 (written together with Nader Ahmadi)
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2. Music as a Method of Coping with Cancer: A Qualitative Study among Cancer Patients in
Sweden, Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 6,
2011.
3. A Quantitative Study of the Spiritually-Oriented Coping Methods among Cancer Patients in
Sweden, Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 6,
2011.
4. Song lyrics and the alteration of self-image. 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences
organized by the Social Sciences Research Society (SoSReS). İzmir, Turkey 8 October 2010.
5. Spiritual Song lyrics and the alteration of self-image. European Conference on Religion,
Spirituality and Health, Bern, Switzerland :May 13-15, 2010.
6. Qualitative studies on health, religion and spirituality. Key note speaker. Conference on
Research in Faith and Health in Secular Society,
Congress Center of the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark: May 17-19,
2010.
7. On definition of religiousness and spirituality. A critique of Pargament’s approach. 30th ISSR
The Challenges of Religious Pluralism. International Society for the Sociology of Religion)
Conference. Santiago de Compostela, Spain: July, 2009.
8. Feminism in Iran: feminism in a new Islamic context. Welfare and Values in Europe:
Transitions related to Religion, Minorities and Gender, International Research Conference at
Uppsala University. Uppsala, Sweden: March, 2009.
9. Äldres välmående. Konferens på Uppsala universitet, Forskning pågår om äldre och åldrande.
Arrangerad av Regionförbundet, Uppsala län och Uppsala universitet. Uppsala, Sverige: mars,
2009.
10. Sveriges Sociologförbundets årsmöte 2009. Hard and heavy music: can it make a difference
in the young cancer patients’ life? Uppsala Universitet. Uppsala, Sverige: mars, 2009.
11. Hard and Heavy music as a coping method with cancer, First ISA Forum of Sociology
Sociological Research and Public Debate. Barcelona, Spain: September, 2008.
12. Spirituality in coping: the case of cancer patients in Sweden. 2nd International conference on
Sociology. Athens, Greece: May, 2008.
13. Culture and Health. International Sociological Association. ISA Research Committee
Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice RC26. Molyvos, Greece: May, 2008.
14. Spirituality in Coping: the case of cancer patients in Sweden. International Conference of
Spirituality. Prague, The republic of Czech: September, 2007.
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15. Culture, religion and spirituality in coping in Scandinavian countries. Forum for
Professionsbachelornes forskningstillknytning (FPR). Tro og helbredelse. Syddansk
Universitet, Odense, Danmark: May, 2007.
16. Culture and spiritual coping: a study of coping with cancer among Swedes. International
conference on Religion on the Borders: New Challenges in the Academic Study of Religion.
Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden: april, 2007.
17. Islamic Feminism in Iran: Feminism in a New Islamic Context. International conference on
Religion on the Borders: New Challenges in the Academic Study of Religion. Södertörn
University College, Stockholm, Sweden: April, 2007.
18. Åldrandets betydelse I användandet av religiösa och andliga resurser. Konferens på Uppsala
universitet, Forskning pågår om äldre och åldrande. Arrangerad av Regionförbundet, Uppsala
län och Uppsala universitet. Uppsala, Sverige: mars, 2007.
19. Islamic feminism in Iran: feminism in a new Islamic context. International conference: A
world in transition: New challenges to gender justice. Gender and Development Network
(Gadbnet), Sweden & Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS). Delhi, India:
December, 2006.
20. Culture, religion and spirituality in coping. International Conference of Clinical Sociology,
Theme: “Health vs. Illness, Normal vs. Pathological Dimension in Society: A Problem for a
Clinical Sociologist.” Università Suor Orsola Benincasa and Associazione di Sociologia
Clinica, Naples, Italy: June, 2006.
21. Islamic feminism in Iran: Feminism in a new Islamic Context. Paper presented at The word
Meeting of Democracy, Promoting Foundations, Stockholm: The Swedish Parliament house.
August, 2005.
22. Islamic feminism in Iran: Feminism in a new Islamic Context. Paper presented at New
Challenges for Gender Justice: Fundamentalism, Markets and Rights. Conference arranged by
The Collegium for Development Studies at Uppsala University. Uppsala, Sweden: November,
2005.
23. Immigrants and Globalization: identity crisis and the concept of the Individual. The XXIX
Conference on Sociotechnics - Sociological Practice. “Networks and Partnership for learning
Regions in an area of Micro-globalization in Everyday Practices. The International
Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee Conference RC # 26 in Association with
the Sociology Department of the University of the Aegean. Molyvos, Greece: June, 2005.
24. The Late Modern Age and Adaptation to Social and Value Changes in Later life. The XXVIII
Conference on Sociotechnics - Sociological Practice. “Social Capital and Social
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Transformation in the Age of Globalization.” The International Sociological Association
(ISA) Research Committee Conference RC # 26 in Association with the Sociology
Department of the University of the Aegean. Molyvos, Greece: June, 2004.
25. Examining some Assumptions on Religious Coping and Styles of Religious and Spiritually
Oriented Coping among Swedish Cancer Patients. Sociologiförbundetsårsmöte. Stockholm,
Sverige: februari, 2004.
26. Presentation of some results of a sociological study on religions and spiritual coping strategies
among men and women cancer patients in Sweden. Hawaii International Conference on
Social Sciences. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: June, 2003.
27. The Late Modern Age and Adaptations to Social and Value Changes in Later life. Hawaii
Internationell Conference on Social Sciences. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: June, 2003.
28. Gerotransandens og utvikling. Den 3. Nordiske kongress i äeldrepedagogikk. Bergen, Norge:
april, 2003.
29. A sociological study on religious and spiritual coping strategies among men and women
cancer patients in Sweden. Hawaii International conference on social sciences. Honolulu,
Hawaii, USA: June, 2002.
30. Gender, age and Spiritually Oriented Coping in Sweden. The XVIIth Wolrd Congress of the
International Association of Gerontology. Vancouver, Canada: July, 2001.
31. The Meaning of Home among Elderly Immigrants: Direction for Future Research and
Theoretical Development. The XVIIth Wolrd Congress of the International Association of
Gerontology. Vancouver, Canada: July, 2001.
32. Investigating the Religious and spiritually oriented coping strategies in the Swedish context.
Third International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology, Visby: June, 2001.
33. Gerotranscendence och åldrande. Sveriges Sociologiska årsmöte, Uppsala, Sverige: januari,
2001.
34. Investigating the Religious and spiritually oriented coping strategies in the Swedish context.
Sveriges Sociologiska årsmöte, Uppsala, Sverige: januari, 2000.
35. Islam och Feminism. Den andra genusvetenskapliga Stockholmskonferens: Utopier och
dystopier. Stockholm, Sverige: oktober, 2000.
36. Investigating the Religious and spiritually coping strategies among Elderly ill person. 5th
Global Conference on Aging. Mar del Plata, Argentina: September, 2000.
37. The Meaning of Home among Elderly Immigrants. 5th Global Conference on Aging. Mar del
Plata, Argentina: September, 2000.
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38. The Meaning of Home among Elderly Immigrants. International Research Conference, ENHR
(European network for Housing Research) 2000. Gävle, Sweden: June, 2000.
39. Gerotranscendence and life Satisfaction. The Gerontological Society of America’s 52st
Annual Scientific Meeting. San Francisco, USA: November, 1999.
40. Aging, Spirituality and Sufism: Sufi Conception of Self and “Other-than-self”. The
Gerontological Society of America’s 52st Annual Scientific Meeting. San Francisco, USA:
November, 1999.
41. Elderly Iranian Immigrants in Sweden: Alienated or Successful in Adoption of the Best of the
Two Culture. Iran’s First International Conference on Aging. Tehran, Iran: October, 1999.
42. Conceptions of Self: Older Iranian Sufis in Sweden. Huvudföreläsare vid British Society of
Gerontology Annual Conference 1999 (BSG '99 Wessex conference. Bournemouth: United
Kingdom: September, 1999. The conference was organised by Bournemouth University and
the University of Southampton.
43. Föreställningar om begreppet “hem” bland äldre invandrare med skilda kulturella bakgrunder.
Nordiskt Bostads- urbanforskningsseminarium. Institutionen för bostadsforskning. Gävle,
Sverige: april, 1999.
44. The Late Modern Age and Adaptation to Societal Change and Values change in Later Life.
Sociologförbundets årsmöte 1999. Stockholms universitet. Stockholm, Sverige: januari 1999.
45. Reflection on spiritual Maturity and Gerotranscendence: Dialogues with Two Sufis. The
Gerontological Society of America’s 51st Annual Scientific Meeting. Philadelphia, USA:
November, 1998.
46. Societal Change, Values and Adjustment in Later Life. European Research Forum on
Migration and Ethnic Relations, Euroconference NR.21 on: Elderly Immigrants and the
European Welfarestate. Mallorca, Spain: April, 1998.
47. Wisdom and Spiritual Maturity among Sufi Iranians in Sweden. Konferens kring Ӂldrandets
Kultur”. Röringe, Sverige: januari, 1998.
48. Wisdom and Spiritual Maturity in Secular and Sufi Iranians in Sweden. The 50th Annual
Scientific Meeting, the Gerontological Society of America. Cincinnati, USA: November,
1997.
49. The Old Flying Dutchmen: Shuttling Immigrants with Double Assets. The 16the Congress of
the International Association of Gerontology. Adelaide, Australian: August, 1997.
50. The Problem of Identity Crisis among Female Iranian Refugees. The 3rd European Feminist
Research conference, Coimbra University, Coimbra, Portugal: July, 1997.
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Professor in sociology
51. The Philosophical Obstacle for The Development of The Concept of The Individual in The
Ways of Thinking of Iranians. Fourteenth Annual Conference of The Centre for Iranian
Research and Analysis (CIRA). Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom: March,
1996.
52. The Problem of Identity Crisis among Female Iranian Refugees. The Fourth International
Conference on Women. Beijing, China: September, 1995.
Lecturing, adviser/ supervisor:
Lecturing as Senior lecturer at the Department of Caring Sciences and Sociology,
University of Gävle from 2001- …. (ongoing)
Lecturing, adviser/ supervisor at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University from
1994-…(ongoing).
Lecturing and adviser at the Department of social work, Stockholm University 19972010).
Lecturing at other universities and university colleges.
Membership (international and national network):
Member of The Network for Research in Faith and Health (http://tro-helbred.org/?page_id=45).
Member of the Toda International Advisory Council, Toda Institute for Global Policy and Peace
Research.
Member of the office of the gender equal opportunities leader group at the Department of
Caring Sciences and sociology, University of Gävle (2005-…ongoing).
Member of the social Gerontology, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University (1995-…
ongoing)
Member of Gender Studies Seminar, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University (2004…ongoing)
Member of the British Society of Gerontology (1999-…ongoing)
Member of The Geological Society of America (1995-…ongoing)
Member of the board of the Union of the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, 1997.
Member of the equal gender opportunities group at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala
University1996-1999.
Member of the office of the ethnic equal opportunities group at the Department of Sociology,
Uppsala 2000-2001.
Member of the International Sociological Association, RC 46. Clinical Sociology (2006ongoing).
Member of the International Sociological Association, RC26 Sociotechnics and Sociological
Practice: Research Strategies and Practices (2005-ongoing).
Teaching Experiences in Brief
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F. Ahmadi,
Professor in sociology
I have lectured in different Departments in divergent Universities in Sweden. I have lectured in
different areas in sociology at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University from 1995. I have
been senior lecturer at Department of Social Work and Psychology, University of Gävle from 2001.
I have been professor in different courses in different areas among others:
Sociology:
- Sociological methods
- Social psychological analysis
- Sociological analysis
- Sociological perspectives
- Writing scientific essays
- Writing master papers
Sociology, aging, disability and health:
- Social gerontology
- Sociology directed towards disability and aging
- Social perspective on aging
- Caring sciences
- Multiculturalism in health and nursing
- The current researches on disability and aging
- The encounter with elderly in health and medicine
- Geriatric caring and caring of elderly
- Elderly and migration
- Religion and elderly
- Religion, spirituality and coping
Sociology and social work:
- Social workers theories
- Social work in a multicultural society
- Social work for elderly and disable people
Sociology and culture
- Special courses on Multiculturalism
- Cultural meeting from a social perspective
- Culture and gerotranscendence
- Culture and coping
Language skills
I can several languages which I use both in conducting my studies, authoring my scientific texts and
teaching scientific texts.
I know very well Swedish, English, French and Persian. I can read Norwegian and Danish. I
understand and can speak Turkish.
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