Lars Göran Kecklund Professor

Göran works as a sleep- and stress researcher and his research profile is working hours, health, safety and fatigue. He is also an accredited sleep specialist since 1 March 2009. Görans research has been focused on how shift work affects sleep and wakefulness ability and what possible consequences the disturbed sleep may have on health and safety. The applied research has its theoretical basis in sleep regulation and some recently published laboratory experiments have investigated how partial sleep deprivation affects sleepiness, performance and physiological quality of sleep. In recent years, the working time research has focused on working time models, which involves varying degrees of self-selected working hours. Another of his research fields is about how stress affects sleep and if sleep mediates the relationship between stress and health. He has also participated in several studies of fatigue in traffic. Görans teaching includes the psychology program at the Karolinska Institute, but he has also lectured at different working time seminars, e.g. for health care staff and police officers. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health and has been part of the organizing committee of several major scientific meetings and congresses. He has also been engaged as an expert by the National Accident Committee, LO-TCO Law Review, the National Police Board, SBU, and several trade unions. Göran is a director of the Swedish Traffic Medical Association.

Education: PhD in Psychology in 1997, Accredited sleep specialist 2009