October 2007

 

Curriculum Vitae of Lena Lundin

Born 1940-07-18

 

 

Others usually describe me as a serious, optimistic, flexible and creative “hard worker”…. but today, after my retirement, I live much more according to the principles of Carpe Diem which means that I am involved in research, but also give attention to projects connected to my carrier as occupational therapist (handicraft and art).

Major research interests follow the line of applied cross scientific investigations with focus on humans, e.g. Physical and psychosocial work environment, Indoor air climate and health, Sick Building Syndrome (including methodology, statistics and validity questions). My background from a natural scientific secondary high school education, academic education in psychology and careers as occupational therapist and Ph.D. formed a scientific approach that is environmental psychological (everything interrelate in a holistic, dynamic way). So far... I am convinced that the physical environment and the social environment interact with inheritance for behavior and health, and that human reactions are dependent on earlier events and the present situation.

 

Education and work 1960-1983. The education for work as an occupational therapist mainly contained art and handicraft, leadership and pedagogic led to employments enclosing (re)habilitation of retarded adults in nursing homes and schools and teacher of handicraft. During this time period I was also involved in non-profit organizations:  Chairman of the local section of the organization Home and School; Youth leader and board member of Boo IF Athletics. The latter engagements resulted in two honors (‘Leader of the year’; ‘Nacka culture grant’), part time employment as high school host and academic studies in psychology.

 

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Education and Appointments 1960-83                                                                                                                                                    Year(s)

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Programs or Courses                                                      School

Handicraft: wood/metal/straw/basket weaving etc.   Steneby Craft College                                                                                 1959-60

Flemish weaving                                                              SV [Adult Educational Association of Centre and Liberal Parties]     1960

Batik (I-II)                                                                          Medborgarskolan [The Citizens' Adult Educational Association]      1960-61      

Pattern construction and sewing                                  Stockholms TillskärarAkademi [Stockholm Cutting Institute]             1961

Design, pattern construction and weaving                 Stockholms  Stads Sömnadsskola [Stockholm school of sewing]       1961

Management of retarded employees                            National Board of Health and National Labor Market Board                1964

Management in the engineering industry                    Hermods  Correspondence Institute                                                         1965

Ceramics for teachers of handicraft                              Södermanland County's Educational Association                                 1969

Methods in tutoring handicraft (MI-M3)                     ABF [the Swedish Workers' Educational Association]                        1969-72

China-painting                                                                  ABF, Flen [the Workers' Educational Association in Flen]                  1970

Oil-painting                                                                       SV [Adult Educational Association of Centre and Liberal Parties]     1970

Group Dynamics                                                              Södermanland County's Educational Association                                 1971

Perception of color and form                                          Södermanland County's Educational Association                                 1974

Glazing ceramic ware                                                       Billströmska Folkhögskolan [folk high school]                                      1974

Board member performance                                            TBV [Educational Association of Professional Employees]                1974

Needlecraft                                                                        SV [Adult Educational Association of Centre and Liberal Parties]     1976

Fruit production                                                               LTK [Educational Association of Swedish Farmers' Union]                1978

Injures in sport and athletics (I-II)                                SRU [Swedish Sport Confed. Adult Educational Association]           1979-80

Oil-painting                                                                       Medborgarskolan [The Citizens' Adult Educational Association]      1981

Supervision of  handicraft                                              Tollare Folkhögskola [folk high school]                                                  1980-81

 

Appointments                                                                   Employer

Nurse substitute                                                              Restad Hospital, Vänersborg (mental care)                                             1960

Occupational therapist                                                    Carlslund, Upplands Väsby (nursing home for retarded)                      1960

Occupational therapist (substitute)                              Västmanland County Council (health care in Sala)                                1961

Occupational therapist                                                    Rickomberga, Uppsala (work institution for retarded)                           1962

Occupational therapist                                                    Södermanland County Council (nursing homes for retarded)              1962-66

Corse leader/teacher                                                        ABF [Workers' Educational Association]                                               1969-76

School host                                                                       Skuru High School, Nacka                                                                          1981-85

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Education and work 1984-2005. Studies in psychology and statistics at Stockholm University and Dartmouth College resulted in B.Sc (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) with dissertation (1991) at Stockholm University, Department of Psychology, Division of Perception and Psycho-physics. Title of the thesis was “On building Related Causes of the Sick Building Syndrome”.

After the dissertation I did research on a free lance basis during a few years, followed by employment at Blekinge International School of Public Health (BIH), where I lectured, supervised and carried out tasks connected to quality assurance and development of the college (Member of the committee for education at BIH, and 3 working groups: ‘Development of master education’, ‘Guarantee of the education level’ and ‘Guarantee of the examination level’). The employment also enclosed research in cooperation with the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning and Karlskrona community (which resulted in the award ‘Årets allergiinsats’ from The Swedish Foundation for Health Care Sciences). 1995-2005 I worked as Senior lecturer in cognitive and environmental psychology at Kristianstad University. In addition to research, examination, supervision and lecturing, the employment included tasks type development of new courses and programs (e.g. environmental psychology and Master of psychology). I was also board member of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and involved in some working groups connected to the university and the community: Member of the counsels for two public health projects in Kristanstad and member of the Committee for ecological guidance at Kristianstad University, the Counsel for quality assurance and the Counsel for evaluation of courses at Kristianstad University.

Since my academic career resulted in several publications presented at national and international conferences I became referee for Indoor Air - International Journal of Indoor Environment and Health and reviewer of grant applications for the Swedish Council for Building Research. During this time period I was also member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (and two working groups within ISIAQ: Guidelines for investigations in buildings; Standardization of questionnaires for the sick building syndrome), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and the Swedish Society of Medicine, Division of work- and environmental medicine.

 

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Education and Appointments 1984-2005                                                                                                                                                   Year(s)

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Courses                                                                                         School

Psychology (A)                                                                            Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                            1984

Psychology (BC)                                                                          Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                            1986

Psychology D                                                                               Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                            1986

Statistics (A)                                                                                 Stockholm University, Department of Statistics                                 1986

Psychological aspects of introduction of new techniques   Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                            1987

Sick building syndrome                                                              Nordic Institute for Advanced Training in Occupational Health     1989

Research techniques (design, methods, ADB, statistics)     Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                            1989

Philosophy of science and history of psychology                Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                            1989

Psychology of perception                                                          Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology                                 1990

Multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis                       Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology                                 1990

Causal and dynamic modeling                                                   Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology                                 1990

Climate, health and behavior                                                      Dartmouth College, Department of Psychology                                 1990

Methods of psychological stress research                             Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                            1993

Social cognition                                                                           Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                            1993

Decision making (I-II)                                                                  Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                            1993

 

Academic appointments                                                             Employer

Research assistant                                                                       Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                        1985-87

Doctorate                                                                                      SML, National Institute of Environmental Medicine                     1987-88

Doctorate                                                                                      Karolinska Institute and SML                                                                1988

Project administrator                                                                   Stockholm University, Department of Psychology                        1987-90

Project leader, supervisor, researcher                                       Täby community, Kanalen                                                                 1993-94

Lecturer Public Health                                                                 Blekinge International School of Public Health                              1994-96

Senior lecturer                                                                              Kristianstad University, Department of Behavioral Sciences       1996-05

 

Research Support                                                                       

Validation of new methodology for airborne                           The Vårdal Foundation for Health Care Sciences                               2001

microorganisms by psychophysical analyzes                         and Allergy Research

 

School Environment in Theory and Practice                           FORMAS, The Swedish Research Council for Environment,       2001-03

                                                                                                        Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning

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In summary, my wide-ranging education and careers gave everlasting commitment to at least three topics (i.e. milieu, handicraft and research), good possibilities to deal with different situations, a considerable net of contacts, several scientific publications, and many possibilities to present my investigations at national and international conferences.

 

 

Conferences, Seminars etc.

 

1987       Indoor Air '87, The 4th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate. Berlin (West), Germany. Poster (Air Quality in a Sick Library over a period of 16 weeks).

1987       Det sunda huset [The Healthy Building].  Nordic seminar organized by Swedish Council for Building Research and Sta­tens Miljömedicinska laboratorium. Stockholm, Sweden.

1988       Sunda Hus [Healthy Buildings]. National seminar organized by Swedish Association of Architects. Stockholm, Sweden.

1988       Healthy Buildings ’88, The 1st International Confe­rence on Healthy Buildings. Stock­holm, Sweden. Responsible for the poster section.

1989       När är ett hus sunt? Grundläggande hälso- och komfortkriterier för ett gott inneklimat. Nordic symposium organized by Swedish Council for Building Research  and NBS Indoor Climate Group. Stockholm, Sweden.

1989       The European Research Group on Indoor Environment, Comfort and Health. Seminar organized by Örebro University Hospital, Sweden. Presentation of two papers (Criteria of Question-Writing; Overall Study Design).

1989       The European Research Group on Indoor Environment, Comfort and Health,. Seminar organized by The Danish Building Research Institute. Hørsholm, Denmark.

1990       A longitudinal study on health and perceived air quality in a sick library. Seminar at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Presentation of preliminary results from “The Library Study”

1990       Miljöpsykologiska metoder [Methods used in Environmental Psychology]. Stockholm, Sweden. Natio­nal symposium organized by the Swedish group of environmental psychologists. Oral presentation (A longitudinal study of health and perceived air quality in a sick library).

1990       Indoor Air '90, The 5th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate. Toronto, Canada, 29 juli-3 augusti 1990. Oral  pre­sentation (A longitudinal study of perceived air quality and com­fort in a sick li­brary building) and poster (A longitudinal study of air­borne chemical compounds in a sick library building).

1992       Svenska Läkaresällskapets riksstämma [The Annual General Meeting of the Swedish Society of Medicine]. Stockholm, Sweden. Four posters (Sam­variatio­ner mellan sub­jektiva symptom, kla­gomål på luftkvalite­ten och bygg­nad­sre­laterade riskfak­torer i ett "sjukt" hus; En ny metod att iden­tifiera symp­tom från ögon, näsa och hud i sjuka hus; Symptommön­ster i ett sjukt bi­blio­tek; En metod att spåra käl­lor till mikro­biella pro­blem i sjuka hus).

1993       Indoor Air '93, The 6th International Confe­rence on Indoor Air Quality and Climate. Helsinki, Finland. Two oral presentations (A new method to identify different types of sensory irritation re­ported from sick buildings; Mold/bacteria-dogs: A new tool for tracing mi­crobiological problems hid­den in building con­struction), and 2 posters (Symp­tom patterns and air quality in a sick library; Objective eye effects and their relation to sensory irritation in a sick building).

1995       Healthy Buildings '95. The 4h International Confe­rence on Healthy Buildings. Milan, Italy. Meetings within 2 international working groups (ISIAQ Task Force II, “Guidelines for investigations in buildings”; ISIAQ Task Force V “Standardization of questionnaires for the sick building syndrome”) and participation in 3 work­shops (Quality assessment and certification of healthy buildings; Indoor air quality guidelines: Beyond TLVS; International school of indoor air sciences)

1995       Det lönar sig att satsa på hälsa, livskvalitet och bär­kraft i plane­ring och byg­gande - Ett långsiktigt helhetsperspektiv på männis­kan och inomhusklimatet. Karlskrona, Sweden. National conference organized by The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning. Organizer and editor of the publication.

1995       "Sunda och sjuka hus i sjukvården" [Healthy and Sick Buildings in Health Care] organized by Västra Götaland regional Council, Härryda primary care and the education section of pediatrics in Mölnlycke. Gothenburg, Sweden. Presentation of paper “Environmental psy­kology”.

1996       Bygga hälsa i Norden [Building Health in the Nordic Countries]. Nordic seminar organized by The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden. Stockholm, Sweden.

1996       Seminar Friska Hus [Healthy Buildings] was organized by The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning within the KvinnorKan-fair. Karlskrona, Sweden. Presentation of paper “Lita på dina sinnen” [Trust your senses].

1998       Networking in the Interest of Environment and Health. The 5th world congress organized by The International Federation of Environmental Health. Stockholm, Sweden.  Poster: Allergic and non-allergic students' perception of the same high school envi­ron­ment.

1998       Allergistämma 98. National conference organized by The Swedish Foundation for Health Care Sciences and Allergy Research, Swedish National Institute of Public Health, and Swedish Asthma and Allergy Association. Stock­holm, Sweden. Poster: “Allergiska och icke-allergiska elevers upplevelse av samma miljö” [Allergic and non-allergic students' perception of the same envi­ron­ment].

1998       Samhälls/humanvetenskapliga perspektiv på sunda-hus-frågorna. National seminar for invited researchers organized by Swedish Council for Building Research. Stock­holm Sweden.

1999       Det sunda huset [The Healthy Building]. Nordic seminar for invited researchers organized by the Swedish Council for Building Research. Stockholm, Sweden.

1999       Indoor Air '99, The 8th International Confe­rence on Indoor Air Quality and Climate. Edinburgh, Scotland. Oral presentation: “Mental representations of the air quality and the indoor environment in eleven locations with different function”, and poster “Covaria­tions among attitude to the indoor air quality, perception of the physical environment, study situation and sensitivity”

2002       Det sunda huset II [The Healthy Building II]. Nordic seminar for invited researchers, organized by The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning. Stockholm, Sweden. Presentation of preliminary results from “School Environment in Theory and Practice”

2002       Luktsinnet i samspel med miljön. National conference organized by Centrum för studier av lukt och smak, GUSTOLF. Gothenburg, Sweden. Oral presentation: “Sunda hus ur ett miljöpsykologiskt perspektiv - Människors upplevelse av miljö och luftkvalitet inomhus” [Healthy buildings from an environmental psychological perspective: Perception of the environment and the indoor air quality].

2004       Det sunda huset [The Healthy Building]. Nordic seminar for invited researchers organized by The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning. Stockholm, Sweden.

2005       Inomhusmiljö för god hälsa – kunskapsläge, forskningsinriktningar, rekommendationer till byggbranschen. Stockholm, Sweden. Nordic seminar for invited (researchers, politicians and managers of building companies) organized by The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning.

 

 

Publications

 

Peer-reviewed publications

Lundin, L. (1987). Sensory/Chemical analysis of air quality in a sick library. Stockholm, Sweden: The National Institute of Environmental Medicine (No 1/87)

Berglund, B., Berglund, U., Lindvall, T. & Lundin, L. (1987). Air Quality in a Sick Library over a period of 16 weeks. In B. Seifert, H. Esdorn, M. Fischer, H. Rüden, and J. Wegener (Eds.), Indoor Air '87, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Vol 2, pp. 355-364). Berlin (West): Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene

Christophersen, E., Franson J., Lundin L., Witten L., & Sundin B. (1987). Sunda hus - krav och lösningar. In N. Dawidowicz, T. Lindvall & J. Sundell (Eds.) Det Sunda Huset. Rapport från ett nordiskt seminarium, Mars 1987 (pp.212-213). Stockholm: Swedish Council for Building Research. (In Swedish). 

Berglund, B., Berglund, U., & Lundin, L. (1988). Odor reduction by biological soil filters. In K. Perry & P.W. Kirks (Eds.), Indoor and Ambient Air Quality (pp. 355-364). London: Selper.

Berglund B., Johansson I., Lindvall T., Lundin L. & Morath C. (1988). Air quality and symptoms in a sick library. In K Perry & P W Kirks (Eds.), Indoor and Ambient Air Quality (pp. 410-419). London: Selper.

Berglund, B., Johansson, I., Lindvall, T., & Lundin, L. (1989). Air quality and symptoms in a sick library building with a return-air ventilation system. In E. Kulic, B. Todorovic & P. Novac (Eds.), CLIMA 2000, Vol III: Air conditioning components and systems (pp 13-18). Amersfoort, Netherlands: Rehva Science Series.

Berglund B., Johansson I., Lindvall T. & Lundin L. (1990). A longitudinal study of perceived air quality and comfort in a sick library building. In D.Walkinshaw (Ed.) Indoor Air '90, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Vol 1, pp.489-494). Ottawa, Canada

Berglund, B., Johansson, I., Lindvall, T. & Lundin, L. (1990) A longitudinal study of air-borne chemical compounds in a sick library building. In D. Walkinshaw (Ed.) Indoor Air '90, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Vol 2, pp. 677-682). Ottawa, Canada.

Lundin, L. (1993). A new method to identify different types of sensory irritation reported from sick buildings. In J. Jaakkola, R. Ilmarinen & O. Seppänen (Eds.) Indoor Air '93, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Vol I, pp 725-730), Helsinki, Finland

Lundin, L. (1993). Symptom patterns and air quality in a sick library. In J. Jaakkola, R. Ilmarinen & O. Seppänen (Eds.) Indoor Air '93, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Vol I, pp 127-132). Helsinki, Finland

Lundin, L., Nodby, O. & Nodby, P. (1993). Mold/bacteria-dogs: A new tool for tracing microbiological problems hidden in building construction. In J. Jaakkola, R. Ilmarinen & O. Seppänen (Eds.) Indoor Air '93, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Vol 4, pp. 305-310). Helsinki, Finland

Kjærgaard S., Berglund B. & Lundin L. (1993). Objective eye effects and their relation to sensory irritation in a "sick building". In J. Jaakkola, R. Ilmarinen & O. Seppänen (Eds.) Indoor Air '93, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (Vol 1, pp. 117-122). Helsinki, Finland

Danielsson, B., Forsberg, P. & Lundin, L. (1994). Children's health in 26 day care centers: Construction/ maintenance of buildings and background factors. In L. Bánhidi, I. Farkas, Z. Magyar, & P. Rudnai (Eds.) Healthy Buildings '94 , Procedings of the 3rd International conference of Healthy Buildings (Vol 2, pp. 689-694). Budapest, Hungary

Lundin, L. (1998). Allergic and non-allergic students' perception of the same high school envi­ron­ment. In Networking in the Interest of Environment and Health. Stockholm: The 5th World Congress of the International Federation of Environmental Health, and MHTF's 38th Study Congress.

Lundin, L. (1999). Allergic and non-allergic students' perception of the same high school environment. Indoor Air Journal , 92-102.

Lundin, L. (1999). Mental representations of the air quality and the indoor environment in eleven locations with different function. In G. Raw, C. Ailzewood & P. Warren (Eds.) Indoor Air '99 , Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality & Climate (Vol 4, pp. 962-967). Edinburgh, Scotland

Lundin, L. (1999). Covariations among attitude to the indoor air quality, perception of the physical Environment, study situation and sensitivity. In G. Raw, C. Ailzewood & P. Warren (Eds.) Indoor Air '99, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality & Climate (Vol 4, pp.1007-1012). Edinburgh, Scotland

Lundin, L. (2004). School environment in theory and practice. In E. Abel, J. Andersson, N. Dawidowicz, E. Christophersen, S.O. Hanssen, A. L. Lindén, T. Lindvall, & A.L. Pasanen (Eds.), The Healthy Building – Status of Research (pp.111-118). Stockholm, Sweden: The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning.

Lundin, L. (2007). Why are some humans more bothered by the indoor environment than others?  Towards a perceptual model. Journal of Environmental Psychology (under review)

 

Published abstracts

Lundin, L. (1992). En ny metod att identifiera symptom från ögon, näsa och hud i "sjuka” hus [A new method to identify symptoms from the eyes, nose and skin in ”sick” buildings]. In Svenska Läkaresällskapets riksstämma -92, Program, sammanfattningar (101, 2, pp 112-113). Stockholm, Sweden: Svenska Läkaresällskapets handlingar Hygiea (In Swedish)

Lundin, L. (1992). Symptommönster i ett sjukt bibliotek [Symptom patterns in a sick library]. In Svenska Läkaresällskapets riksstämma -92, Program, sammanfattningar (101, 2, p.113). Stockholm, Sweden: Svenska Läkaresällskapets handlingar Hygiea (In Swedish)

Lundin, L. (1992). Samvariationer mellan subjektiva symptom, klagomål på luftkvalite­ten och byggnadsrelaterade riskfaktorer i ett "sjukt" hus. [Covariations among subjective symptoms, complaints on the air quality and building related risk factors in a “sick” Building]. In Svenska Läkaresällskapets riksstämma -92, Program, sammanfattningar (101, 2, p.113). Stockholm, Sweden: Svenska Läkaresällskapets handlingar Hygiea (In Swedish)

Lundin, L, Nodby, O. & Nodby, P. (1992). En metod att spåra källor till mikrobiella problem i "sjuka hus" [A method to trace microbiological sources in ”sick buildings”]. In Svenska Läkaresällskapets riksstämma -92, Program, sammanfattningar (101, 2, p112). Stockholm, Sweden: Svenska Läkaresällskapets handlingar Hygiea (In Swedish)

Lundin, L. (1998). Allergiska och icke-allergiska elevers upplevelse av samma miljö [Allergic and non-allergic students' perception of the same envi­ron­ment]. In Allergistämma 98, Abstracts. Stockholm, Sweden: Folkhälsoinstitutet. (In Swedish)

Lundin, L. (1999). Kristianstadselevernas upplevelse av arbetsmiljön på högstadiet [Pupils’ perception of the work environment of the high schools in Kristianstad]. In Forskningens dag 1999 (p. 51). Kristianstad, Sweden: Högskolan Kristianstad (In Swedish)

 

Books and monographs

Lundin, L. (1991). On Building Related Causes of the Sick Building Syndrome. Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International (Doctoral Thesis).

Lundin, L. & Rydén, E. (1995) (Eds.). Det lönar sig att satsa på hälsa, livskvalitet och bärkraft i planering och byggande [It is profitable to bet on health, life quality and sustainable planning and building]. Karlskrona, Sweden: The National Board of Housing, Building and Planning (In Swedish)

 

Other publications (in Swedish)

Berglund, U. & Lundin, L. (1987). Luktstyrkebestämningar av emissionsluft vid AB Borlänge Energi komposterings-anläggning i Fagersta. Report to Jordbrukstekniska Institutet, Uppsala, Sweden.

Lundin, L. (1991). En longitudinell studie av ett” sjukt hus” [