Topic: Occupational health

The ALGOSH and DIGILONG projects study how algorithmic management and digital platform work affect working conditions and health. The researcher will combine longitudinal surveys with Swedish population registers, develop questions and analytical strategies, lead publications and collaborate with PhD students. Methods may include longitudinal causal inference, target trial emulation, mediation, machine learning and complexity-informed approaches, chosen to answer substantive occupational-health questions. The full-time, two-year position is based at the Unit of Occupational Medicine in Solna.

Research evidence indicates that psychosocial stressors such as work-life stress serves as a negative occupational exposure relating to poor health behaviors including smoking, poor food choices, low levels of exercise, and even decreased sleep time, as well as a number of chronic health outcomes. The association between work-life stress and adverse health behaviors and chronic health suggests that Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) interventions such as leadership support trainings may be helpful in mitigating effects of work-life stress and improving health, consistent with the Total Worke