NIVA’s board meeting took this year place in Helsinki, bringing together board members from the Nordic countries to discuss the future of occupational health and safety in the region. The meeting offered an opportunity for meaningful discussion and future planning, reinforcing NIVA’s commitment to promoting a safe, integrated, and competitive labour market across the Nordics. … Continued
Healthcare leadership faces increasing challenges, with rising levels of employee disengagement and declining well-being. At the course, Effective Strategies for Healthcare Leaders: Enhancing Well-Being at Work, course leaders Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir and Lotta Dellve address these vital issues. Professor Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir from the University of Iceland and Professor Lotta Dellve from the University of Gothenburg are … Continued
In the ever-changing field of occupational health and safety, continuous learning and collaboration are key to addressing complex challenges. Therefore, NIVA offers a wide range of courses, where the goal is not only to present new research findings, but to exchange experiences with professionals in the Nordics and beyond. A recent NIVA course on “Retaining … Continued
How to create workplace environments where people thrive? Meet Karina Nielsen, an experienced professor in work psychology, and the course leader for NIVA:s upcoming course Designing, implementing, and evaluating organizational interventions. Background and journey into research I am a work psychologist and did my PhD in Applied Psychologist at the University of Nottingham. After I … Continued
As the course “Sustainable Industries, Sustainable Jobs? Work Environment in the Recycling Industry” approaches we asked course leader Live Bakke Finne about her research career and how she got invested in well-being among workers in the green sector. Live Bakke Finne combines psychology and sustainability in her research and has a background in occupational health … Continued