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...
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...
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...
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.
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).
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...
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.