Animal, nature and health researchers at SLU

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Nature and health/Nature experiences and health

Anna Bengtsson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of People and Society.

• Area of expertise: outdoor environment for health and well-being
• Contact: anna.bengtsson@slu.se, CV page Anna Bengtsson (in Swedish).

Ann Dolling, former Senior Lecturer at the Department of Forest Ecology and Management.

• Area of expertise: health benefits of forests, forest bathing, Nordic Nature Health Hub, nature-based integration.
• Contact: ann.dolling@slu.se, CV page Ann Dolling (in Swedish).
  

Patrik Grahn, Professor at the Department of People and Society.

• Area of expertise: health promotive urban green structure, health promotive design, forests for recreation and stress reducing activities, animal assisted therapy.
• Contact: patrik.grahn@slu.se, CV page Patrik Grahn. 

Anna María Pálsdóttir, Associate professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of People and Society.

• Area of expertise: Environmental psychology, landscape architecture, evidence based design, nature-based and nature-assisted interventions, nature-based rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Garden, nature-based integration, horticulture therapy, forest bathing and forest therapy, equine assisted interventions.
• Contact: anna.maria.palsdottir@slu.se, CV page Anna María Pálsdóttir (in Swedish).

Fredrika Mårtensson, Senior Lecturer at the Department of People and Society.

• Area of expertise: rehabilitation, physiotherapy, physical activity, vegetation, environmental psychology, physical activity assessment, exercise science, landscape architecture, children's play.
• Contact: fredrika.martensson@slu.se, CV page Fredrika Mårtensson (in Swedish).
  

Marcus Hedblom, Professor at the Department of Urban and Rural Development.

• Area of expertise: Sustainable landscape management, multi-sensory virtual environments and health.
• Contact: marcus hedblom@slu.se, CV page Marcus Hedblom.

Katarina Petterson, Researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development

• Area of expertise: gender perspective, critical entrepreneurship studies, care farming.
• Contact: katarina.pettersson@slu.se, CV page Katarina Pettersson.

Mari Kågström, Researcher at the Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, CBM.

• Area of expertise: environmental assessment, spatial planning, collaboration, learning, public pealth.
• Contact: mari.kagstrom@slu.se, CV page Mari Kågström.

Elisabet Bohlin, Researcher at the Department of Forest Ecology and Management.

• Area of expertise: how human health is affected by staying in a forest environment, Nordic Nature Health Hub.
• Contact:elisabet.bohlin@slu.se.

Sylvia Dovlén, Researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development.

• Area of expertise: policy implementation, planning practice, evaluation, learning and change processes.
• Contact: sylvia.dovlen@slu.se, CV page Sylvia Dovlén (in Swedish).

Eva-Maria Nordström, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Forest Resource Management

• Area of expertise: sustainable forest management planning, use of forest ecosystem services, health benefits of forests.
• Contact: eva-maria.nordstrom@slu.se, CV page Eva-Maria Nordström.

Human-animal interactions and health

Anna Lundberg, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.

• Area of expertise: animal Behaviour, ethology, anthrozoology.
• Contact: anna.lundberg@slu.se.

Lena Lidfors, Professor at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.

• Area of expertise: human-animal interactions, Animal Assisted Interventions, anthrozoology, animal behaviour, behavioural observations and physiological measurements, ethology.
• Contact: lena.lidfors@slu.se.

Maria Andersson, Senior Lecturer and ass prof in anthrozoology at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.

• Area of expertise: ethology, anthrozoology, animal behaviour, learning at the zoo, human and animal interactions.
  Contact: maria.andersson@slu.se, CV page Maria Andersson.

Therese Rehn, Researcher at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.

• Area of expertise: animal welfare, anthrozoology, human interaction on dog behaviour and welfare, attachment and social support.
• Contact: therese.rehn@slu.se, CV page Therese Rehn. 

Hanna Sassner, Researcher at the Department of Biosystems and Technology. 

• Area of expertise: applied ethology, animal behaviour and animal welfare, equine science, behavioural physiology.
• Contact: hanna.sassner@slu.se, CV page Hanna Sassner (in Swedish).

Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg, Professor emerita at the Department of Animal Environment and Health.

• Area of expertise: oxytocin, physiology, mother-child relationships, dog-assisted interventions among older people.
• Contact: kerstin.uvnas-moberg@slu.se