Associate professor, combined with clinical employment, teaches at the Physiotherapy Program.
I am an Associate professor and clinical lecturer at the Physiotherapy Program at the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation. This means that I divide my working time between teaching, research and clinical work at Robertsfors health center. At the department, I have a role as an equal opportunities representative.
I am a member of a national working group on long-term pain that is part of SKR's work on knowledge management where we have developed a course of care. In this work, I am also involved at regional and local level in the Västerbotten region and in in a national research network on long-term pain and a national pain register.
My research subject area is rehabilitation and above all pain rehabilitation. I am also involved in research on disability. I work with several different research methods in both qualitative and quantitative methods. Within qualitative methods, I have experience of several different methods such as Qualitative Content Analysis, Grounded Theory and Narrative Analysis. In the case of quantitative method, I have specialized in multivariate statistics. Several projects that I have run or studies that I have been involved in have had a gender perspective.
For several years, I have been part of a research group that evaluates multimodal pain rehabilitation in both specialist care and primary care. We study the effects of rehabilitation and also have health economic perspectives on parts of the research.
I teach both at undergraduate and advanced level in courses related to my research areas on pain, pain management and gender. I am also involved in teaching scientific method. I am involved in the clinical practice in primary care that the students do in semester six, which ties in well with my clinical duties. Working for a better collaboration between the clinic and the university is something I am passionate about.
2022 - Associate professor
2014 – clinical lecturer at the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation
2012–2014 post doc – employment in a collaborative project between Linköping University and Umeå University.
In 2012 - defended her thesis after having been part of the national gender research school at Umeå University for four years.