Agusta Palsdottir
University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, ReykjavÃk, Iceland
Biography
Ágústa Pálsdóttir is Professor of Information Science, University of Iceland (UoI). She completed her PhD from Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Besides services at UoI, she has been a visiting professor at Transilvania University of Brasov, University of Latvia, and Åbo Akademi University. She has organised international PhD workshops, acted as pre-reviewer of doctoral dissertations, participated in international evaluation committees for academic positions, and a chair of expert committee for quality assessment of university programs. Her main field of research is health information behaviour and media and health information literacy, particularly senior citizens, and she has authored several articles on this topic.