This research groups mission is to promote a sense of mattering and belonging where people can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in ways that also contribute to the common good at a societal and global level.
The research group is led by Olga Lehmann.
We are a group of transdisciplinary scholars, activists, and stakeholders interested in assuring that helpful mental health and well-being interventions are both inclusive and available for everyone, independently of their gender, diagnosis, age or cultural background. Our mission is to promote a sense of mattering and belonging where people can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in ways that also contribute to the common good at a societal and global level. Therefore, we are also explicitly interested in individual, relational, community and structural changes that make interventions for mental health and well-being more helpful and more congruent with human values. The United Nation’s sustainable development goals (UN, n.d.) we contribute to are 3.4, 4.5, 5.5, 10.2 & 17.6
We have 4 lines of research in our research group. All our upcoming publications relate to at least one of these lines of research:
- Promotion of compassion & resilience in mental health & well-being
- Promotion of collective justice in mental health & well-being
- Promotion of trust, mattering, and belonging in mental health & well-being
- Promotion of creativity and imagination in mental health & well-being
Members from UiS
External members
- Irene Kingswick, General Manager, ROS – Rådgivning om spiseforstyrrelser
- Trine Giving Kalstad, Director of public health and bereavement support, PhD Candidate, The Norwegian SIDS & Stillbirth Association, and Center for Crisis Psychology, University of Bergen
- Ottar Ness, Professor, Wellbeing and social sustainability, Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, NTNU, Norway
- Valeria Markova, Psychologist & Associate professor, Researcher at RVTS Vest, Norway & Associate Professor, University of Bergen
- Joao Costa Ribeiro, Assistant professor in design thinking and google design sprints, University of Bergen/Lean Innovation at GALP, Portugal
- Per-Einar Binder, Professor in Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Bergen
- Ingvild Salsvik Lehouillier, Professor in personality and Organizational Psychology, Department of Psychology, NTNU
- Vlad Glaveanu, Professor in Psychology, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Kyoko Murakami, Lecturer at Westminster University, UK