Professor of Work Psychology at The University of Sheffield. Karina Nielsen is an expert in organisational interventions aimed at improving employee health and wellbeing through making changes to the way work is organised, designed and managed. She has developed and tested frameworks on how to design, implement and evaluate organisational interventions. Such interventions may focus on the individual, group, leader and organisational levels. She also has expertise in interventions to promote workers return and thrive at work after long-term sickness absence due to common mental disorders.
Expert
My expertise rests within the area of creating workplaces that enable workers with common mental disorders to stay and thrive at work. I focus on how the social context, including the group, leader and organisational policies, procedures and practices may support workers who have returned after long-term sickness absence due to common mental disorders stay and thrive at work, thus enabling organisations to be inclusive of such workers who are otherwise at risk for dropping out of the labour market. Through organisational intervention dropout may also prevent dropout.
