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Main research fields

• Leadership, organisation, change, relational coordination
• Innovation processes
• Digital generation as employees
• Healthy psycho-social work environment, Work disability prevention, Return-to-work, Stress prevention and -management from an organisational contextual perspective

Research group memberships

• Center for Research in Social Relations at Work, University of Copenhagen 
• International Work Disability Prevention Network
• The CIHR Strategic Training Program in Work Disability Prevention, University of Toronto, Canada
• The Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)
• International Association on Workplace Bullying & Harassment (IAWBH)
• European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP)
• The joint programme for working life research in Europe – SALTSA
• University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Department of Health Sciences, Community & Occupational Medicine, Groningen, The Netherlands
• Coronel Instituut voor Arbeid en Gezondheid, Academisch Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• IRIS, Stavanger, Norway                                                              
• The psycho-social network  The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen,  Denmark

Research - Summary

Janne Skakon is Assistant Professor in Work & Organisational Psychology, at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. As assistant professor, she did hold a managerial role as programme coordinator in work and organizational psychology (BA) for 3 years, and participates actively in a number of working committees in the Department as well in a broader university context, both with colleagues, Advisory Board and other stakeholders. She has worked as a labour market researcher and research fellow at the Danish National Research Centre for the Working Environment, and as visiting researcher at the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR). Her research areas relate to leadership, organisation, change, innovation, psycho-social work environment, including bullying, sickness absence and return to work (RTW), and interventions. She obtained a PhD degree in Organisational Psychology on “Stress dynamics between leaders and employees and stress prevention from an organisational perspective”, received a Scolarship and a Certificate of Excellence issued by the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST) for an elaboration of a RTW project for the Australian Railways with emphasis on integrating stakeholders in designing interventions. Besides her research career, she has been lecturing for several years, at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Metropolitan University College. Further, she worked as an organizational psychologist and consultant for PA Consulting Group for 7½ years, an experience that is well-reflected in her research and academic work.

Link til Google Scholar profil:                            http://scholar.google.dk/citations?user=I4oJxb4AAAAJ&hl=da

Link til Researchgate profil: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Janne_Skakon

Research Projects

• 2017- Stress prevention - recommendations for leaders. http://arbejdsmedicin-midt.dk/dk/omklinikkerne/nyheder/hardunglentilatforhindreenstress-sygemelding
• 2016-2019 Organizational change at work, employee turnover, and health. The Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Jensen, J.H.; Bonde, J.P.; Meulengracht Flachs, E.; Hulvej Rod, N. & Skakon, J.

   

• 2014-2018 Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. Project: Work Disability System. Ladegaard, Y., Skakon, J., Høgh, A. & Netterstrøm, B. http://arbejdsskadesystem.dk/forskerne-2.html
• 2014- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. New perspectives on bullying. Managers bullying - towards a new understanding
• 2014- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University & Region of Southern Denmark. Ladekjær, E.,Labriola, M. &  Skakon, J. Implementation of 'Getting back on track' (1-7-30 model).Dialogue between manager and employee after long-term sickness absence.
• 2013- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Organisational change and mental health and primary prevention - bringing the hidden consequences of change to light
• 2013- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, in colaboration with Søren Schultz Hansen. Leading the digitale generation
• 2012- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, in colaborations with colleagues from the EAWOP community: Hewett, R.,Hahn, V.C., Gieter, S., Demerouti, E., Sánchez, A.R. Need satisfaction and wellbeing at work and at home - A daily diary study.
• 2004-2008 Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen Ph.d project Well-being and stress among leaders and employees. How does leader stress affect employee stress and well-being?
• 2004-2006 Université de Sherbrooke, Qubec, Canada. Scolarship from the Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST) for Work Disability Prevention Strategic Training Program, Canada.
• 2002-2003 The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark. Labour market researcher; Leadership, Absence and Return to work. Project manager on an intervention-project examining the psycho-social work environment among hospital workers.

Grants

• 2014 Seed money, Faculty of Social Sciences
• 2003-06 Scholarship by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, for the Work Disability Prevention CIHR Strategic training program, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
• 2006 Certificate of Excellence issued by the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), for an elaboration of a RTW project for the Australian Railways with emphasis on integrating stakeholders in designing interventions.

Teaching

Teaching and supervision at BA, MA and PhD level

Seminar courses

• Lecture series
• Practicum
• Supervision on synopsis, BA-, MA- and PhD thesis
• Supervision of instructors 

Teaching themes

• Leadership, organisational perspectives, change processes, intervention
• Innovation, new ways of collaborating
• Psychosocial work-environment, well-being, stress, leader-employee relations in an organisational context, prevention in an organisational perspective
• Sickness absence and return to work (RTW)

CV

Education

• Leadership programme, University of Copenhagen (2014)
• The Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen  (2012)
• LEAN in administration, Compass (2011)
• PhD, Organisational Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen (2010)
• Work Disability Prevention Strategic Training Program, Canada (2003-2006)
• Authorised Psychologist, The Danish Supervisory Board of Psychological Practice, Ministry of Social Affairs (2003)
• Post-qualifying education in  Appreciative Inquiry, Systemic and Narrative Training (1998- )
• M.Sc. Psychology, University of Copenhagen (1990-1996)
• Certified in MBTI, JTI, Team compass, Belbin, DiSC, PAPI, OPQ32, 16 PF, NeoPir, Raven, Problem solving, Stroop, Wave, Hogan

 Employment

• 2018- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Associate Professor (external)
• 2017 Sept. - 2018 April Danish Ministry of Defence, Work environment Consultant. 
• 2016- 2017 Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Post doc. 
• 2012-2016 Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Assistant Professor, Work and Organisational Psychology. Responsible Coordinator W&O Psychology (BA), Practicum responsible W&O Psychology (MA)
• 2011, January - 2012 Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Associate Professor (external) at seminar class, incl. supervision and examination (Organisational psychological perspectives on change, learning and leadership) and lectures (Organisational culture in theory and practice and Leadership and stress), Bachelor’s and Master’s levels, in Work and Organisational Psychology
• 2010, November –  Organisational psychologist, Ph.d. (self employed). HRM & OD project management and execution, public and private sector assignments, speaker at conferences, authorship in professional popular journals and media. Knowledge sharing and bridge building between research and practise in the labour market field
• 2008, May – 2010, October PA Consulting Group. Organisational psychologist, senior consultant. HRM & OD project management and execution, public and private sector assignments
• 2004-2008 Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark / The National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark
  Research Fellow, Ph.D. Project: ”Well-being and stress among leaders and employees – how does leaders stress affect employee stress and well-being”
• 2002-2008, Organisational psychologist, Ph.d. (self employed). HRM & OD project management and execution, public and private sector assignments
• 2002-2004 The Danish School of Public Administration, Denmark (Today: The Metropolitan University College). Lecturer, incl. supervision and examination; Diploma program in Leadership and Organisation
• 2003 The National Research Centre for the Working Environment. Labour market researcher; Leadership, Absence and Return to work. Research associate on a project which examined the psycho-social work environment among hospital workers.
• 2002-2003 & 2005, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. External lecturer, including supervision and examination; Organisational Psychology
• 2001-2002 Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Amanuensis, including supervision and examination; Personality psychology, Supervision of psychology students in practicum
• 1997-2002 PA Consulting Group. Organisational psychologist, consultant. HRM & OD project management. Head of Panel of HR managers.

Knowledge of languages

Language skills (CEFR);

• Danish (C2)
• English, French and Scandinavian (B2)
• German and Italian (A2)