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Malmö Work Science Meeting aims to advance work science by fostering dialogue between researchers and practitioners on pressing issues in the field. We encourage diverse perspectives and discussions on key challenges in work science. Depending on the abstracts submitted, the meeting will be held in both English and Swedish.

Topics include:
· Labour Market and Transitions
· Working Life and Work Environment
· Work and Livelihood

 

Programme

09.30–10.00

Coffee & Registratiion
Location: Atrium, Ground floor, Niagara

10.00–10.15

Welcome by Caroline Wigren-Kristoferson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Malmö University
Location: Atrium, Ground floor, Niagara

10.30–12.00 – Morning Sessions

Session 1: Gender, Power and Bodies

Moderator: Tuija Muhonen
Language: English
Location: NI:A0406

  • Stephan Brunow – Females in Leadership-Positions (WiP). Discussant: Margaret Whitley
  • Johan Alvehus – Sweet little lies? Towards a mendaciology of leadership
  • Margaret Whitley – Working conditions and breastfeeding outcomes among new mothers in the United States
  • Vanja Lozic – Gender benders and invaders in Swedish educational institutions: Emotions, body-space and subversion in preschools and schools

Session 2: Ledarskap, arbetsmiljö och organisation

Moderator: Peter Gladoic Håkansson
Language: Swedish/English
Location: NI:A0407

  • Anders Edvik – Betydelsen av kall för organisatorisk och social arbetsmiljö
  • Johanna Finnholm – HR-funktionens roll i organisatorisk förändring: En kvalitativ fallstudie om organisering, emotionsarbete och strategier i en devolverad kontext (WiP) Discussant: Kettil Nordesjö
  • Kristoffer Holm – Associations between COPSOQ reference values and long-term sickness absence
  • Hanna Ljungberg – Lära för (arbets)livet – arbetsmiljö och arbetsmiljökunskap under studietiden (WiP) Discussant: Elin Ennerberg
  • Eva Klope – Lärares föräldrakontakter som arbetsmiljörisker

Session 3: Care and Conflict

Moderator: Hanne Berthelsen
Language: Swedish/English
Location: NI:A0411

  • Hanne Berthelsen – Workplace conflicts and organizational care: Exploring the role of leadership and HR
  • Susann Porter – Care work and emotional labor in health professions: A gendered perspective
  • Mimmi Barmark – Conflict resolution strategies in social work: Between empathy and efficiency
  • Maria Norstedt – Disability, care and autonomy in the workplace: Negotiating support and independence
  • Fredrik Cullberg Jansson – Organizational responses to moral distress in care professions (WiP) Discussant: Hanne Berthelsen

12.00–13.00

Lunch

Location: Floor 5, Niagara

13.00–14.30 – Afternoon Sessions

Session 4: Gender, Rurality and Vocational Education

Moderator: Lisa Ringblom
Language: Swedish
Location: NI:A0406

  • Maria C Johansson och Vanja Lozic – Kroppslighet, materialitet och könsnormer i bygg- och anläggningsprogrammet (WiP) Discussant: Maria Hedlin
  • Maria Hedlin – Hur socialiseras yrkeselever att acceptera sexuella trakasserier inom arbetslivet?
  • Elin Ennerberg & Janna Lundberg – Att marknadsföra en rural idyll och producera rural arbetskraft? En mixad analys om naturbruksprogrammet (WiP) Discussant: Vanja Lozic

Session 5: Work Environment, Well-Being and Motivation

Moderator: Susann Porter
Language: English
Location: NI:A0407

  • Tuija Muhonen – Bystander behavior in workplace bullying: a vignette study exploring how organizational space and situational strength influence intentions to intervene
  • Carolin Schütze – Diversity and well-being at work – A study of four different welfare regimes (WiP) Discussant: Julie Kordovsky
  • Julie Kordovsky – Holding Space for Situated Vulnerabilities: Learning Circles as Infrastructures of Organizational Care (WiP) Discussant: Carolin Schütze

Session 6: Pathways to Work

Moderator: Mato Bosnjak
Language: Swedish/English
Location: NI:A0411

  • Jon Sunnerfjell – Wired for Work? Rewriting Retirement in the Active Society (WiP) Discussant: Mimmi Barmark
  • Kettil Nordesjö – If förebyggande socialt arbete is everything, maybe it’s nothing? (WiP) Discussant: Johanna Finnholm
  • Susanna Lundberg – Method development for evaluating activities aimed at “getting closer to the labour market”

14.30–15.00

Fika

Location: Atrium, Ground floor, Niagara

15.00–16.30 – Late Afternoon Sessions

Session 7: Youth, Work and Learning

Moderator: Maria Norstedt
Language: Swedish/English
Location: NI:A0406

  • Mahtab Eshaghbeigi-Hosseini – Just taking care of children or walking around in a painting? – Young people’s affective encounters with the world of work (WiP) Discussant: Susanna Lundberg
  • Susanna Lundberg – Gen Z in the construction industry (WiP) Discussant: Mahtab Eshaghbeigi-Hosseini

Session 8: Matching People and Jobs

Moderator: Peter Gladoic Håkansson
Language: English
Location: NI:A0407

  • Peter Gladoic Håkansson – From newspaper job ads to public recruitment service
  • Mimmi Barmark – Who works part-time for what reason – an analysis of motives among longterm part-time workers (WiP) Discussant: Jon Sunnerfjell
  • Fredrik Cullberg Jansson – Informationssäkerhet och matchningsdynamik: Agentbaserad modell för precisionsmatchning på arbetsmarknaden (WiP) Discussant: Kristoffer Holm
  • Mato Bosnjak – Building Migration Industry: Socialist Yugoslavia’s agenda for labour migrants’ pre-departure training

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