Research presentation
Marina Heiden
Professor
Research subject: Occupational Health Sciences
Email: marina.heiden@hig.se
Telephone: +46 26 64 85 44
Marina Heiden is professor in occupational health science at the University of Gävle. Her main research interest is how flexible work can be implemented to promote individual and organizational sustainability. This includes studies on how work can be designed to promote health and inclusion, and how it can contribute to organizational attractiveness. She is also involved in research on methods for assessing physical workload in working life.
CURRENT RESEARCH
- Flexible work: opportunity and challenge
- Flexible adaptation for sustainable innovation
- CAN-Work-S: Facilitating work participation among cancer survivors during their entire professional career
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Interventions to prevent musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace
As a PhD student at Occupational Medicine, Umeå University, I studied relations between stress and pain. In 2006, I defended my thesis entitled "Psychophysiological reactions to experimental stress - relations to pain sensitivity, position sense and stress perception". Today, my research is focused more towards cost-efficient strategies for exposure assessment of physical work load in working life.
Current projects
Cost-efficient modeling of physical work load — an empirical study of work postures in industry
Responsible person: Marina Heiden
Modeling of working postures among hairdressers by work schedules and personal data
Responsible person: Marina Heiden
Modeling of gross body postures among customer contact centre workers by company and work characteristics
Responsible person: Marina Heiden
Epidemiological studies of eye-neck/scapular area muscle interactions
Responsible person: Hans Richter
Collaboration
Cost-efficient modeling of physical work load — an empirical study of work postures in industry
Co-workers: Anders Westlund, Catherine Trask
Co-workers at CBF
Svend Erik Mathiassen
Modeling of working postures among hairdressers by work schedules and personal data
Co-workers: Jens Wahlström, yrkes- och miljömedicin, Umeå universitet
Co-workers at CBF: Svend Erik Mathiassen, Per Liv
Modeling of gross body postures among customer contact centre workers by company and work characteristics
Co-workers: Allan Toomingas, Mikael Forsman
Co-workers at CBF: Svend Erik Mathiassen