Khadijah Kainat

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Information Studies and Minorities Reserach Profile at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. I am a qualitative and quantitaitve researcher in the fied of Information studies and Migration studies. My doctoral research was about understanding the information seeking behaviour of migrant women from socio-cultural perspective and in the context of integration. The title of my doctoral thesis was “Navigating new horizons of socio-cultural transition – Information seeking behaviour of migrant women in the context of integration” available at https://www.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/190844/kainat_khadijah.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y .

Previously, I have been working as a visiting researcher at University of Borås, Sweden and had the pleasure to learn and work with capable professors, researcher and doctoral students in the Swedish School of Library and Information Science. 

I am currently working on a postdoctoral research project “MobileFutures” https://mobilefutures.fi/ and working on diversity, trust and two-way integration of migrants.

My research interests include information practices, information literacy, information landsacpe, socio-cultural aspects, forced migration, refugees, integration and digital information literacy in the AI era.