Emma Cedstrand

About me

I'm a licensed psychologist dedicated to improving mental health and well-being in the workplace. My expertise lies in organisational intervention and implementation research aimed at promoting mental health in the workplace. I earned my Ph.D. from Karolinska Institutet in January 2023 after successfully defending my thesis "Evaluating Occupational Health Interventions: Design, Implementation, and Effects".

Building on the intervention projects I worked on as a Ph.D. student, I'm engaged in an innovative project focused on co-creating occupational health interventions to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. We focus on the hospitality and healthcare industries.
Co-creation, an approach that values stakeholders' needs and local contexts as essential for promoting behavioural change, is at the core of my current research. Co-creation has gained prominence in public and occupational health by promoting a more people-centred and effective approach to addressing health challenges. However, there is a shortage of research evaluating the effectiveness and implementation of co-created interventions. My goal is to advance the field's knowledge and practices.

Occupational health
Organisational interventions to improve the organisational and social working environment and mental health
Mental health
Effectiveness studies
Process evaluations

I´m a course leader at the Master Program of Work and Health at KI. I lead the course Improving the work environment - intervention and evaluation.
I`m also responsible for the qualitative research part in the course Scientific Methods.

Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 2023