Attractive and Healthy Municipal Workplaces

Working life is in constant change. This is not least relevant for modern working life in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Older ideas about how we are expected to conduct work have quickly changed due to the changed conditions. Alongside this, technological innovations have created completely new conditions for working. This includes the meeting structure which, from previously requiring physical presence, can now usually be replaced with digital solutions. In which contexts it is not suitable with digital meetings or hybrid meetings is something that will be partly studied within the framework of this project.
 

However, the main purpose of this project is to study how social, organizational, psychological, and physical factors affect employees and management in the public sector. This includes partly how the design of the physical workplace is affected, partly how other factors affect employees and managers within the target group in a broader perspective. The total number of participants in this project includes roughly 13,000 public employees. The professions represented are extensive and include employees and managers in the sectors, among others, school, health care, technology, culture, and leisure.

Within the framework of the project, two research projects are currently underway in collaboration with municipal authorities.

What we are looking for:
Someone interested in writing a thesis in this area. We are primarily looking for students who are interested in working with various types of knowledge compilations.

What we can offer:
Access to data from surveys and interviews, summaries of current research in the field, and lots of energy and enthusiasm :-)