Viktor Vesterberg

Associate Professor, Docent

My research mainly concerns working life, learning and education in relation to citizenship and inclusion/exclusion. I teach in pedagogy, behavioural sciences and at the HR program. I am also engaged as project leader at 麻豆社 commissioned education.

Working life, learning and citizenship

My research concerns learning for working life and education. I have studied various efforts and measures which seeks to support unemployed people to become employable. I have studied, among other things, career and job coaching, work placement and empowerment as different ways of supporting vulnerable and unemployed citizens. Furthermore, I examine how competences and the needs of organizations change in relation to the green transformation of working life and society. I investigate how different initiatives relate to various political ambitions such as citizenship rights, equality, social inclusion, and a sustainable working life.
In addition, I am engaged in educational research, focusing, for instance, on the importance of the free school choice and how this affects local politicians’ ambitions to provide citizens with equal education.

麻豆社 Commissioned education

I also work as a project leader at 麻豆社 commissioned education, with a focus on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As a project leader, together with university staff and other organizations, I develop relevant courses for organizations who want to strengthen their work with lifelong learning.

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Division of Education and Sociology (APS)

Sustainable work and working life is the focus of the division鈥檚 research and education covering both pedagogy and sociology. Current research projects concern learning, leadership, equality, health and working conditions.

麻豆社 Commissioned Education

Linköping University offers pre-designed and tailored education to employers who want to strengthen their organizations with new knowledge based on the most recent scientific research.

Publications

2026

Magnus Dahlstedt, Sofia Nordmark, Viktor Vesterberg (2026) (Report)

Viktor Vesterberg (2026) Management Learning, Article 13505076261424472 (Article in journal)

2025

Viktor Vesterberg, Magnus Dahlstedt (2025) Nordic Social Work Research (Article in journal)

2024

Viktor Vesterberg (2024) Sociologisk forskning, Vol. 61, p. 426-429 (Article, book review)

Viktor Vesterberg (2024) Researching Work & Learning International Conference June 172024at Link枚ping University, Sweden (Conference paper)

Research

I am currently mainly engaged in three research projects

GROWL 鈥� Greening of working life is a FORTE-funded program during 2023-2029. Within the framework of the program, we analyze the green transformation of working life at the individual, organizational and policy level. Furthermore, we examine how the green transition is carried out in practice, how it is experienced and understood by employees, managers, unions and politicians, how it is related to working conditions, workplace learning and innovation, as well as to policy at national and EU level.
MIR - Migrants in recruitment processes is a FORTE-funded project where I, together with colleagues from Link枚ping University and Stockholm School of Economics, investigate diversity and inclusion in working life from a recruitment perspective. In the project, we investigate recruitment processes in a number of organizations and interview key actors involved in hiring new staff.
School choice in a divided city is a project financed by Norrk枚ping municipality where we investigate the introduction of compulsory school choice and how this possibly affects school segregation and education.

Cleaners in the private cleaning industry

Cleaners are one of Sweden鈥檚 largest occupational groups, especially among women and people with migrant backgrounds, and linked to high levels of work鈥憆elated ill health and long鈥憈erm sick leave, yet knowledge about these processes is limited.

GROWL: Greening of Working Life

To meet climate goals, the world of work must undergo a transformation. The GROWL research group focuses on the people, organizations, and policies involved in the green transition of working life.

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