Gudrún Kristjánsdóttir has for many years collaborated with the research group, within the research program LUC3 (Lund University Child Centered Care), which focuses on research in parental support and child-centered care.

As a visiting professor, she will work on a project about parents' experiences when their child is diagnosed with congenital heart disease and has to undergo surgery after birth. Gudrún Kristjánsdóttir primarily examines how Icelandic parents, whose children come to Lund for surgery, experience their situation and how their children's condition affects it.

The focus of the project is on e-health and how an e-tablet can facilitate communication between the parents and the health care staff when the children leave the hospital in Lund and return to Iceland.

The project is part of the 6-year research program eChildHealth, which develops e-health in child care. The program is funded by Forte through a grant of SEK 27.6 million and is led by Professor Inger Kristensson Hallström.