Petra Nilsson Lindström holds a Ph.D. in Medical Science, in the field of Public Health Science. I work as Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Health Science and as Assistant Professor in Health Science.  I am promoted to Accomplished Associate Professor at Kristianstad University and I am also the research group leader of HERD@HKR – Higher Education Research and Development.

My research focus is overall based on a salutogenic perspective on health and empowerment processes. I conduct research in various arenas, for example working life, school and daily activities, with a person-centred and action-oriented approach. I also conduct higher education pedagogical research, mainly in relation to student-centred learning and academic teachership.

My thesis work (2010) and subsequent two post doc projects focused on work-related health in the form of salutogenic factors that make employees feel good at work; development and quality testing of salutogenic questionnaires for work and health; how survey processes are perceived and can function in work environment work and how organizations work with employee interviews.

The current research project (2020-2025) in which I am the project leader is called: "Grow with horse power - research on person-centeredness for increased health and personal development in daily activity" at Fulltofta Nature Center.

I am co-supervisor to several doctoral students:

- Access to person-centered lifestyle counselling for persons with intellectual disability: The ACCESS project. PhD student: Carin Gustafsson. Main supervisor: Lina Behm. Co-supervisors: Petra Nilsson Lindström, Daniel Östlund, Douglas Sjöwall, 2025-ongoing.

- The importance of playfulness and play for health and well-being of elderly people with reduced mobility. PhD student: Anna Bergman. Main supervisor: Albert Westergren. Co-supervisors: Petra Nilsson Lindström; Maria Haak, Anna Nivestam, 2024-ongoing

- Equipped for Lifestyle Counselling? An educational model to promote person-centered lifestyle counselling skills in nurses: The ELCI-study. PhD student: Sara Alenius. Main supervisor: Lina Behm. Co-supervisors: Petra Nilsson Lindström, Marie Nilsson, Marie Rask, 2022-ongoing - Person-centering as an innovative strategy for health-promoting sports education. PhD student: Johanna Bergman. Main supervisor: Maria Haak. Co-supervisors: Petra Nilsson Lindström, Åsa Bringsén, 2022-ongoing

- That's why we can - Nurses' work situation and health before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and the conditions for working in a person-centered manner. Doctoral student: Cicilia Nagel. Main supervisor: Kerstin Nilsson. Co-supervisors: Petra Nilsson Lindström, Albert Westergren, Sophie Schön Persson, 2021-2025

- Workplace relationships as health-promoting resources at work. Doctoral student: Sophie Schön Persson. Main supervisor: Ingemar Andersson. Co-supervisors: Petra Nilsson Lindström, Kerstin Blomqvist, Pär Pettersson, Margareta Troein Töllborn, Göran Ejlertsson, 2012–2019

I co-leads a Higher Education Research-project about a student centred learning culture, 2022-2024.

Higher Education Research-project about program examination, 2022-2024.

Previously reseqarch projects:

Health-promoting school development project at Söderport's special secondary school, 2019.

Health-promoting school development project at Degeberga School, 2018.

The role of the workforce for a health-creating workplace. Doctoral project: Sophie Schön Persson, completion 2019.

Post-doctoral fellow in the project "MEDEA - MED workers and Survey Processes in Working Life", 2013–2021.

Has previously collaborated with the company Agerus to commercialize the research results WEMS and SHIS, two salutogenic questionnaires for use in workplace health development work.

Postdoctoral researcher in the project "Development of a health-creating workplace", 2011–2013.

Disputed in 2010 on the thesis "Enhance your workplace! A dialogue tool for workplace health promotion with a salutogenic approach". Former PhD student in the project "Stop band-aid - health-creating workplaces in health care", 2006–2010.

Member of the research environment Human - Health - Society since 2006-ongoing.

Research group leader for HERD@HKR (Higher Education Research and Development) since 2022-ongoing.

I am promoted to Excellent Teacher (2025) and work as associate professor. I am teaching on courses and programmes in the field of public health science, as well as methods courses. I teach both on-campus and online courses at bachelor, master and postgraduate levels.  In addition, I supervise and examine degree projects at the bachelor, master and doctoral level in public health science and health science.

My interest in higher education pedagogics is mainly focused on student-centred learning, Universal Design for Learning and academic teachership.  I was promoted to Accomplished Associate Professor at Kristianstad University.

I am one of two editors (Bringsén Å. & Nilsson Lindström, P.) of the book Hälsopromotion i teori och praktik: olika arenor och målgrupper (Health promotion in theory and practice: different arenas and target groups) which was published in Swedish by Liber in 2019.