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I am a specialist nurse in psychiatric care and hold a PhD in Medical Science. At the Department of Care Science, I conduct research and teach at bachelor’s and master’s levels.

My research explores how nursing interventions can be developed, implemented and integrated into everyday psychiatric care. I am particularly interested in creating space for interaction and relationship-building between patients and staff. How can care organisations and working practices support the nursing care that staff want to provide and patients need? What enables new ways of working to be adopted and sustained?

My doctoral research examined the use and implementation of Time Together in psychiatric inpatient care, exploring how the intervention functions in everyday practice and the conditions influencing its implementation and use. I have also published studies on how nurses spend their working time in psychiatric inpatient care. Together, these research areas address the content of nursing care and the conditions for providing it.

My work focuses on how research can advance psychiatric nursing, particularly through relationships and shared activities that bring patients and staff together. I explore how practices supporting these encounters can become part of everyday care, and how the interplay between an intervention and its context shapes opportunities for change.

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