Stefan Blomberg

I hold a PhD and am a licensed psychologist, as well as a senior expert and specialist in work and organizational psychology.

Education:
PhD in Psychology, Linköping University, 2022
Licensed Psychologist, 2005
Professional Degree Programme in Psychology, Linköping University, 2004
University Diploma in History, Linköping University, 1999

Areas of expertise:
One of Sweden’s leading experts and trainers on issues relating to:

• negative social exposure in the workplace (destructive conflicts, offensive treatment, bullying and harassment)
• the role of leadership in employees’ negative social exposure, and its impact on health
• how allegations and complaints of this kind can be investigated fairly and objectively
• how to develop and build a well-functioning organization with an ethical infrastructure.

As an expert, I have appeared many times in the daily press, trade press, podcasts, radio and TV. I also took part as an expert and sidekick in the second season of the SVT series Morgans Mission, which ran for five episodes.

In my research, I have focused mainly on the mechanisms behind workplace bullying and harassment. I have studied how organizational factors such as roles, work climate and leadership affect the levels of workplace bullying and harassment. I have also studied how different kind of leadership practices, social support and work climate influence the way exposure to bullying affects employees. 

In the mid-2010s, together with Professor Michael Rosander, I founded the research project WHOLE (Work – Health – Organization – Leadership – Exposure) at Linköping University. I worked in the project until the end of 2025. Over these years, the project received SEK 12.5 million in research funding from AFA Försäkring and Forte, and around 25 scientific articles were published.

I have also published several books, book chapters and reports. The most recent is Faktaundersökning – utredningsmetodik för kränkande särbehandling och svåra arbetsmiljöproblem (2026) [Fact Finding: Methodology for Investigating Bullying and Severe Work Environment Problems], co-authored with Professor Ståle Valvatne Einarsen, Professor Emeritus Helge Hoel and attorney Harald Pedersen. My book Mobbning på jobbet – uttryck och åtgärder (2016) [Bullying at Work: Expressions and Interventions] attracted considerable attention on publication and has since been used as course literature in several university programs. In 2020–2021, I led a project commissioned by the Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise (MYNAK) to develop national guidelines on negative social exposure at work.

Since April 2026, I have been an affiliated researcher at Karolinska Institutet, where I work on Christina Björklund’s research project “Strengthening Managers in the Public Sector in Implementing Guidelines Against Mistreatment and Bullying in the Workplace.”

Since 2015, I have delivered several hundred training sessions for a range of organizations and employers within my areas of expertise. Since 2018, I have also run open method training courses in the Faktaundersökning (Fact Finding) methodology in Sweden, Norway and Iceland, with well over 1, 000 participants.

I am not currently teaching university courses, but I have previously taught at Linköping University. On the Psychology Program, I taught leadership, organizational psychology and workplace bullying. On the Medical Program, I taught stress and the work environment. On the Master’s Program in Human Resources, I taught organizational development and HRM.