About SOLIID
SOLIID was initiated in 2009 to fulfill the goal of the Vinnvård research program: to develop research platforms for collaborative research in the broad area of organization, management, innovation, improvement and implementation research in the health and social services sector.
SOLIID focuses on research that will shed light on how to build organizational structures and processes that enhances sustainable learning, innovation, development and improvement in complex organizational systems. This multi-disciplinary area of interest involves both health and social services and the main part of the research projects are based on action oriented and mixed methods approaches.
Research builds on several areas such as Organizational behavior, Organizational Development, Organizational Learning, Strategic and Change management, Dissemination and Implementation research, Quality Improvement, Organizational creativity and innovation, Knowledge management, and Work and Organizational psychology. The members of the research network have different backgrounds medicine, nursing, psychology, management, economy, public health, sociology, work science and engineering.
Research questions
Forskningsfrågorna berör flera multidisciplinära områden som: Organizational behavior, Organizational Development, Organizational Learning, Strategic and Change management, Dissemination and Implementation research, Quality Improvement, Organizational creativity and innovation, Knowledge management, Industrial and organizational psychology. Medlemmarna i forskarnätverket kommer från olika bakgrunder: medicin, vårdvetenskap, psykologi, management, ekonomi, folkhälsa, sociologi, arbetsvetenskap och teknik.
Forskningsfrågorna berör flera multidisciplinära områden som: Organizational behavior, Organizational Development, Organizational Learning, Strategic and Change management, Dissemination and Implementation research, Quality Improvement, Organizational creativity and innovation, Knowledge management, Industrial and organizational psychology. Medlemmarna i forskarnätverket kommer från olika bakgrunder: medicin, vårdvetenskap, psykologi, management, ekonomi, folkhälsa, sociologi, arbetsvetenskap och teknik.
Themes and ongoing projects
Research within SOLIID is currently focusing on several slightly overlapping themes. Additional applications for research funds are continuing in order to develop the research within the themes. More detailed information on specific projects and publications can be found under SOLIID Project info and SOLIID Publications.
- Building structures for sustainable organizational learning and improvement
- Enhancing health promotion and preventive approaches
- Innovative service development in health and social services
- Change Facilitating Agencies
- Health and social care staff’s work situation in relation to competence supply and quality improvement
- Strategies for Large System Transformations (LST)
- Improving life for the frail older people
- The role of follow-ups and measurements in learning and development processes
Projects
Collaborative research on large national change initiatives
Research group members
Research group leader
Monica Nyström
Senior LecturerResearch group at KI/LIME:
- Monica Nyström, Research group leader/Research network coordinator, PhD Work and Organizational Psychology, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, MMC/SOLIID, Karolinska Institutet, 90% and Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University (UmU) 10%
- Emma Granström, PhD Medical management, , Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, MMC/SOLIID, Karolinska Institutet
- Helena Strehlenert, PhD, Medical Management, MSc in Work and Organizational Psychology, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, MMC/SOLIID, Karolinska Institutet
- Mariel Taxén, Research assistant, MSc in Helath economy, Policy and Management
- Sara Tolf, PhD, MSc in Sociology, Post Doc Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, MMC/SOLIID, Karolinska Institutet Core group
Collaborators in SOLIIDs research network
- Monica Andersson Bäck, PhD Work science, Department of Sociology and Work Science, Gothenburg University
- Anders Edström, Strategic management unit, Region Västerbotten
- Rickard Garvare, Professor, Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Luleå University of Technology
- Elisabet Höög, PhD, MSc in Work and Organizational Psychology, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, MMC/SOLIID, Karolinska Institutet and Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University (UmU)
- Anneli Ivarsson, MD, Professor Epidemiology and Public Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University (UmU) and R&D unit Region Västerbotten
- Ann Charlott Norman, Head of Planning for Management Support and Strategy in Healthcare, Region Dalarna
- Ann Scheck McAlearney, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, ScD in Health Policy and Management, Dep. of Family Medicine, Ohio State University’s College of Medicine
- Darcey Terris, PhD, Evaluation Lead and Quality Improvement Specialist, Institute for Behavioral Research, Centre for Family Research, University of Georgia, USA and Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine (MIPH), Heidelberg University, Germany
- Lars Weinehall, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå Univeristy (UmU)
- Anna Westerlund, PhD, MSc in Work and Organizational Psychology, Dep. of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University (UmU)
- Karin Zingmark Professor, Dep. of Health Sciences, Luleå University of Technology
Scientific publications
Financing
- FORTE - Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
- Vinnova - Sweden's Innovation Agency
- Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR)
- The Vinnvård program - a consortium of funders: Vårdalstiftelsen, Vinnova, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
- Vårdalstiftelsen
- Patient Insurance LÖF
- SFO-V - Strategic Research Programme in Care Sciences at Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University funded by the Swedish Research Council
- Swedish National Institute of Public Health
- FAS-centre for Global Health at Umeå University
- The Swedish foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)