Alcohol consumption is a leading risk factor for injury, disease and premature death in Europe. Hence, there is increasing interest in effective universal interventions to reduce alcohol consumption and related harm, and the workplace is a favorable arena.

This project has two overarching aims: (1) to analyse the importance of organizational factors and conditions for employees’ work environment and health; and (2) to analyse the importance of differences between countries in labour market relations and employees’ possibilities to influence and participate in decision-making for such organizational conditions.

The research project examines the association between exposure to violence, ill health and long-term sick leave to identify the conditions and opportunities for vocational rehabilitation for people who have been exposed to domestic violence..

This project explores the temporal and spatial reconfiguration of contemporary borders as they govern the international mobility of different shades of migrant labour.

This project has three aims: to assess gendered trends in leave provisions across 31 countries since 1965, examine links between leave policies and gendered use using Eurostat Labour Force Survey data (2010, 2018), and explore how long-term exposure to leave rights influences mothers’ and fathers’ leave use.

Gender gaps in negotiation behaviour and shying away from exposure to social ranking. This project aims to provide new knowledge on why we see persistent gender gaps despite the convergence by gender in many factors.

By doing analyzes focusing on time from education to job, length of employment spells, and career patterns, we shed light on changes for birth cohorts born from the 1940s and onwards. Our analyses are based on register data and the occupational biographies in the Level of Living Surveys.

The overall aim of the research project is to study the importance of personal resources (e.g. cognitive ability) and different demands and resources at work in relation to work- and health-related outcomes in a military context.

The me-too petition #TystnadTagning received media- and political attention in Sweden and the performing arts became a case illustrating a larger problem on the Swedish labor market: health effects of sexual harassment and sexual violence and the culture of silence that surrounds them.

The way that technology is designed affects both people and the planet. Therefore, we need to prioritize the ethical dimensions of technology and develop practices for ethical design. This project explores ethical design practices together with design practitioners.

Different paths to employment: special features of the Finnish social security system and problem areas in international comparison

Social-technical relations and practices within Sweden’s rural agriculture and harvesting industry.

Organisations are governed by complex webs of rules and regulations. The aim of this PhD project is to design an enterprise modelling method that helps organisations comprehend and navigate these systems.

Smartwatches, fitness trackers and other wearables follow every step we take, and every move we make. We even take them to bed and let them track our sleep. This project explores how people interact with technology and hack traditional sleep schedules in order to make their lives work.

A multi-method approach to the transition to parenthood in different-sex and same-sex couples.

That excessive gambling for money can have serious consequences for the player is well-known, but what we know too little about is how workplaces can influence gambling habits.

This research project builds on a new data set on hiring in academia – a sector known for its dearth of women at top positions. The data set is unique in its scope and detail, covering all recruitment and promotion processes at the level of assistant, associate, and full professor at Sweden’s 10 largest universities from 2018 to 2020.

This project will explore new aspects about gender equality in the labor market, with a focus on differences in career achievements between men and women. The objective is to investigate the roots of gender inequality and potential reforms that can help increase equality.

This project endeavors to map landscapes of humanities research in Sweden. It sets out to explore, on the one hand, trends and patterns of publishing and, on the other, ways on which research policy impacts on the humanities in Sweden as compared to the situation in other countries.

This PhD thesis project studies how formal and informal structures influence IT alignment in public organisations. The project also explores how IT alignment improves organisational agility – one of the determinants of a successful digital transformation.

In March 2020, everyday life changed dramatically for many Swedish workers as a result of the Public Health Agency’s recommendations on telework (work from home using ICT) to reduce the spread of COVID-19; within some weeks telework increased by 400%. Many of those who began teleworking did so without or with only limited experience of telework.

This project examines how the rise of women´s employment and earnings affected trends in economic inequality among all households, across OECD and European countries since the 1980s.

The present research project aims to study career guidance and counseling for newly arrived youth and young adults in upper secondary education and adult education, with specialattention to the conditons for social inclusion and recogntion.

Can self-employment increase upward mobility? The main objective of this project is to study income mobility among natives and immigrants and we ask specifically if self-employment can increase upward mobility.

Strong motivation, agency, language skills and supporting social networks, these are key factors for successful integration and migrants' access to their previous vocation in Sweden. In the study 20 skilled migrants and five employers’ representatives were interviewed.

A large proportion of immigrants in Sweden face difficulties in getting employed, and the situation is especially problematic for some country of origin groups. Two explanations that have been found to be important by previous research are education and discrimination.

Laborocto is a network collaboration between eight Forte-funded programs on work-life research. The network is aimed at long-run promotion of work-life research. Around 100 researchers at all career stages from more than 10 disciplines take part in the network.

In a globalized and rapidly changing world of increasing complexity and uncertainty, organizations need to attract, develop and retain competent leaders, which makes competence and leadership development a priority. The program addresses the challenge of how to recoup investments in leadership.

The purpose of the project is to shed light on how bullying in working life is handled within the framework of legal labour law trials.

This project explores linguistic and institutional dynamics in multilingual workplaces, examining interactional practices and identity construction. Using audio/video data, it focuses on backstage talk, leadership, and socio-technical practices in manager-employee meetings, employing EMCA, MCA, and socio-technical methods.

The project examines long-term pain and its consequences among women who have been exposed to violence in close relationships and who seek help via the national helpline Kvinnofridslinjen or at clinics for domestic violence at women's health centers or social services.

Relational and emotional labour in caring occupations

Care leave – the right to take time-off from work to provide care – is a key ingredient for sustainable work and a rare area of welfare state expansion. As women now make-up a majority or near majority of union members in many countries, this project examines when and how trade unions mobilize for care leave policies and to what effect.

A new manager enters the workplace with no previous knowledge of employees, organizational culture, or history and is supposed to lead a development project for six months with no future in the business. This scenario is increasingly common in contemporary working life. But what happens when even the manager is there temporarily?

In this PhD thesis project, the KYKLOS method is developed. Its purpose is to provide methodological and tool support for changing organizations using enterprise modeling and a capability-oriented approach.

This project examines the importance of individual work motivation for the structure of labor market inequality. We examine the importance of learning and effort motivation for three central labor market outcomes: employment, occupational attainment and wages.

This project concerns the opportunities to strengthen educational and professional chances for students without complete compulsory education, a group running increased risks of future social exclusion. These young people are normally channeled into one of five introductory programs (IP), preparing for studies and/or work.

A study of measures in the establishment mission and how these affect employers’ recruitment decisions. The integration of refugees into the regular labor market takes a very long time. After eight years in Sweden, only about half are employed. The objective of the project is to study refugees' path towards employment the first years after arrival.

The aim of this PhD thesis project is to study digital transformation in public organizations. We focus on how organizational culture in public organizations is influencing digital transformation.

This project explores how process mining can power organizational digital twins. Our aim is to enable prediction, compliance, and optimization of processes for data-driven decisions and continuous improvement.

In this 3-year project, we advance research by focusing heterogeneity in career effects of parenthood, as we believe it can give us valuable clues to unveiling the underlying mechanisms of gender inequality.

The project focuses on internationally trained teachers and pre-school teachers and their experience and view of communication and language use in their work in Sweden. Their experience derives from their supplementary education (ULV) at universities in Sweden, and from their work as teachers in different parts of the Swedish school system.

In Nicoline Annetorp Roth’s dissertation, participation and care coordination for older adults transitioning from hospital to home care are explored in relation to socio-political trends in the old-age care field.

The aim of this project is to provide evidence on the outcomes of individuals who choose their high school program gender-atypically and start a program where they belong to the minority gender.

PrecaNord breaks new ground by offering a multi-level analysis of the prevalence, trends and institutional contexts of precarious and informal work in Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Falls among older people are a serious problem that causes both human suffering and high social costs. There is extensive knowledge about how falls can be prevented, but there is often a lack of knowledge about the conditions required for this to be put into practice, by older people themselves, by staff in social services, home care and healthcare.

How did communication specialists in Swedish municipalities work during the covid-19-pandemic? What did they learn that could be of use in future crisis?

Experimental studies in partnership with firms and organizations. This project applys innovative field experimental methods in partnership with firms and organizations. It will focus on two outcomes: recruitment and promotions.

RaCE - Radical Technology-Driven Change in Established Firms, Organizational capacity for radical change and innovation (RACE).

This project aims to identify causal mechanisms to a gender gap in negotiation behavior by employing three unique and overlapping methods: experiments, survey data and interventions.

A legal study of responsibility for and control of how we divide our time between work and leisure. This project aims to provide a coherent picture of working time regulation and identify any gaps or contradictions within it.

This research project documents results, main challenges and successes of an international training programme on ICT regulation and formulates suggestions for improvement. Analyses of documentation and reports from programme participants are complemented by an OECD/DAC framework evaluation.

Right competence at the right time - but for whom? Trajectories and aspirations within and beyond higher vocational education in Sweden.

With this project we aim to examine the nature and financial impacts of participation in the labour market after pensionable age in two contrasting societies: Sweden and the United States.

Robotic Process Automation adoption is increasing in the public sector. The aim is to improve the quality and efficiency of public services. This PhD thesis project studies the adoption process from the perspective of technology as routine capability.

The Samsyn project is based on close cooperation between the research group Intensivsvenska and the Swedish National Agency for Education (Developing the introductory programs at upper secondary school).

How does workplace and neighbourhood segregation shape the employment trajectories of refugees and their children?

Longitudinal and intergenerational effects of gendered segregation.

The project investigates how mentors, during workplace learning, better can contribute to students’ learning processes and their transition into work life.

A comparative perspective on Swedish social policy to develop inclusive programmes for an extended working life

PhD Project that is a part of the national research program The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS).

Mental health disorders affect more than one billion individuals worldwide and represent one of the largest global health problems. The aim of this project is to provide clear and actionable information about which work related and organizational factors positively or negatively impact employees’ mental health.

The project's primary purpose is to increase the understanding of labor market and educational effects of gender transitioning on Swedish adults and youth whilst considering two theoretically specified contexts giving rise to oppression: one focused on gender and the other on being transgender.

In this project, we investigate how the flexibilization of working life shapes the maneuvering space of women (and men) in work and family and how this, in turn, contributes to gender and class inequality in wages and (un)health

- what protection is given to contract employees in the municipal sector?

Many employees perceive that they put too much effort into work tasks they consider as unnecessary or unreasonable.

Pathways into and out of leadership positions in a gender and life-course perspective. This project fills some gaps within the research field by studying both those who do and do not become leaders, and movements into and out of management positions.

Social actions such as advice and feedback are sensitive actions, often triggering emotional and defensive reactions. Moreover, just how to understand and describe such actions – for instance, as “constructive advice”, “complaints”, or even “insults” – is a potential point of contention and dispute for participants in interaction.

Challenges and opportunities in female-dominated occupations. This program aims to enhance our understanding of why women still fall behind men in terms of wages, careers, health and social recognition. What extent inequalities can be attributed to the fact that women tend to work in female dominated occupations and in “people-oriented jobs”?

This project explores precarious work in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2020s, focusing on atypical contracts, job instability, and unemployment. It examines long-term trends vs. short-term fluctuations, and how they affect income, health, and differ by education, gender, immigrant status, and urbanity.

Despite a strong emphasis on person-centered care in social service provision, scientific knowledge is limited regarding the actual impact and how these goals can be realized.

Video Remote Interpreting (VRI): A study on Cognitive Load in Simultaneous and Dialogue Interpreting via video and interpreters' attitudes towards VRI in Sweden

This program analyses individual life courses in Europe and the importance of socioeconomic position and gender for working conditions, exit routes and post-retirement health.

As people work to older ages, maintaining good health and work ability is essential for a sustainable workforce. Cardiometabolic diseases (CMD), including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, remain major causes of disability and early retirement.

YOUNGWORK engages a highly qualified team of researchers to study how labour market trajectories unfold during early adulthood, and how labour market outcomes relate to factors on the personal, family, or school level.