Attractive and Healthy Municipal Workplaces
The main purpose of this project is to study how social, organizational, psychological, and physical factors affect employees and management in the public sector.
Research projects
At the department, several research projects are ongoing. Read about them here.
Ongoing Research Projects
Aegis 4: screening study
By investigating lung function after an exercise test in -15°C among 16–19-year-old students at Swedish ski high schools, this study will, to our knowledge, be the most comprehensive screening stud...
Aegis: use of heat exchangers when training in cold environments
Asthma is relatively common among the population in Sweden, but even more common among those who practice endurance training in the cold, such as cross-country skiers. Can the use of heat and...
Active life - also for children and adolescents with disabilities
The purpose of this research study is to increase opportunities for movement, both everyday physical activity and sports participation, in children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities.
ASPE-P project: prospective study on asthma, medication and performance
The project aims to determine prospectively whether atopy, asthma, ventilatory and lung function and use of asthma medication are associated with exercise performance capacity among elite athletes...
Co-working Environments for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Rural Settings
In the context of sparsely populated mountainous regions, the aim is to address the question: How should a Co-Working Space (CWS) be designed physically, socially, and technologically to support...
The Female Athlete
Healthy women of reproductive age have a natural hormonal cycle, the menstrual cycle; they can also become pregnant and give birth. This affects sport in various ways. The project aims to improve...
Students' health and learning in compulsory school for pupils with intellectual disabilities and student health teams
Children and young people with intellectual disabilities are a vulnerable group and do not have the same preconditions for learning as other children. This can lead to physical, mental, social...
Empowering ParaSports – Fostering Fairness and Equity from the Grassroots to the Elite
We want to contribute to a more equal and fairer sports movement that includes people with intellectual disabilities, movement and visual impairment.
Striving for magnet standard in nursing homes – a pilot project
The purpose of this project is to identify, describe, test, and evaluate how nursing homes and community health care can become an attractive and learning workplace that, like certified magnet...
A person-centered method for lifestyle changes in persons with mental illness
The project is based on a person-centered lifestyle program in group for persons with mental illness with the basic components: interpersonal relationships, health education and cognitive support f...
Future Welfare: Healthcare and School
The program's goal is to pave the way for a larger project, aiming to develop a strong research environment, which in connection with high-quality education can secure competence and skills in the...
Enhanced support for older people with suspected or confirmed risk or substance abuse. Training and collaboration initiative for home care services
How do home care employees act when they meet older users with suspected high consumption of alcohol? Involved municipalities and MIUN create a research-based, effective, and working model to provi...
The impact of the rifle while skiing in biathlon
How does the rifle affect the biathlete and is it possible to develop the sport-specific training in order to perform better?
The integration and evaluation of a lifestyle program to persons with mental illness
The program that is used in this project has been designed based on the studies of two dissertations. This has provided a person-centered lifestyle program in group for persons with mental illness...
Local labor market programs – Challenges of and for an inclusive labor market
In this program, we map and examine how local labor market programs can contribute to increase the inclusion on the labor market.
New perspectives on the future of healthcare – how is attractive work designed?
We want to investigate which working conditions are required for doctors and nurses to perceive their workplace as attractive.
Sexual health and freedom from violence among young people in the Region of Jämtland Härjedalen
Sexual health and freedom from violence among young people are the goals of a regional initiative to implement the SEXIT (SEXual Identification Tool) within the Student Health Services at the...
Social services' needs and conditions incorporating a new way of working for labor market inclusion – to create a collaborative arena for the exchange of experience.
The project aims to create collaborative arenas for the exchange of experience around a way of working with labor market inclusion called Beskæftigelses Indikator Projektet (BIP).
The effectiveness of training sessions in relation to the planned and executed training within the framework of the ski high school
that examined various ways of measuring training load during endurance training in ski high school students.
Examining Heart Rate, Oxygen Uptake, and Immune Response in Constant Intensity Endurance Exercise
Our project explores the dynamic interplay between heart rate, oxygen uptake and performance during endurance exercise. We aim to discover how different intensities affect the immune system,...
Develop leadership and teamwork at nursing homes for increased nursing quality
The overall aim of the project is to use the Magnet Model as a starting point to develop methodologies and working methods to increase the leaders' abilities to create a sustainable quality culture...
Nurse´s experience of encounters with people with eating disorders
The overall purpose of the project is to obtain an in-depth knowledge of nurse’s experience of encounters with people with anorexia nervosa.
WAYA – A randomized controlled study assessing the safety and effectiveness of a wilderness program on the mental and physical health of young cancer survivors
A project with focus on supporting, and promoting rest, recreation, and spending time in nature as support for health and wellbeing among young cancer survivors.