Research areas

I have  a strong interest in knowledge translation and linking evidence to practice, aiming to develop evidence based safe mental health organisations as a sanctuary for people who receive psychiatric inpatient care, as well as in transitions.

My  research is focused on suffering and psychological pain such as trauma caused by adverse events (for example violence and coercion). This includes advanced mental health nursing practices; de-escalation practices; recovery, and integrating physical and mental health. My  scope is organizational change toward proactive and positive prevention based on a public health perspective and trauma-informed health care delivery models.

My  contribution to research and education includes: 1. Research based violence and restraints reduction training programs in Psychiatry and general hospitals. 2. In depht exploring relationsships and interactions between health care professionels 3. Developing, user-testing, and (hopefully later trialling) mHealth technology e.g. mobile-application SAFEapp. 4. Developing of novel approaches to user participation in health services research. 5). Psychological pain, i.e. bereavement, trauma experiences, suicide ideation, disruptive behaviour.

I am  a specialist in utilizing participatory research methods that involve people with lived experiences as partners. They can produce nuanced insights in psychiatric practices and clinical culture. Participatory research is powerful because it can raise new research questions and create new responses to these questions. It can also empower those who partake in the research.

I am collaborating with multiple hospital settings, within psychiatry and general hospitals in Denmark and abroad (such as Norway, Sweden, Italy The Netherlands, and UK). And, I am also collaborating with people with lived experiences.