Research
Robin is actively involved in the following research projects:
Back to Work: A Study of Senior Workers in the Staffing Industry (Principal Investigator: Robin Jonsson, Forte, 2024-00018)
Individual Adaptations for Prolonged Working Lives: Needs, Prevalence, and Tensions in Public Welfare Organizations (Principal Investigator: Robin Jonsson, Forte, 2023–2025)
A Matter of Transition? Working Life Trajectories and Retirement Behavior in Post-Socialist Contexts Across Central and Eastern Europe (Principal Investigator: Caroline Hasselgren Bune, ÖSS, 2023–2025, Project Member)
Strategies for a Sustainable Working Life from an Employer and Employee Perspective (Principal Investigator: Mikael Stattin, 2021–2027, external project member, Forte)
Collaboration
SWEAH Alumni Interdisciplinary Network (SAIN).
Centre for Ageing and Health (AGECAP)
Researcher Network for sustainable teachership (RNST)
Bio
Robin Jonsson works as a senior lecturer at the Department of Social and Psychological Studies. In December 2021, I defended his dissertation titled "Retaining the Aging Workforce: Studies of the interplay between individual and organizational capability in the context of prolonged working lives" at the University of Gothenburg.
He is affiliated with Södertörn University.
Selected publications
See all publications at: Google Scholar. Bolded first author.
Jonsson, R., Wikström, E., & Bhattacharjee, A. (2025). Decent work over the course of a life: A critical evaluation of Target 8.5 as exemplified by senior workers. In Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: Economic Growth and Decent Work for All (1st ed., p. 17). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032624723
Hasselgren Bune, C., Jonsson, R. (2024) The Role of Idiosyncratic Deals in Shaping Retirement Preferences of Older Workers: A Psychological Needs Perspective, The Career Development Quarterly
Jonsson, R. Nilsson, K. Björk, L. Lindegård, A. (2023) Engaging the missing actor: Lessons learned from an age-management intervention targeting line managers and their HR partners. The Journal of Workplace Learning 35 (9), 177-196
Jonsson, R., Hasselgren, C., Dellve, L., Selden, D., Larsson, D. & Stattin, M. (2021). Matching the pieces: The presence of idiosyncratic deals and their impact on retirement preferences among older workers. Work, Aging & Retirement
Jonsson, R. Lindegård, A. Björk, L. Nilsson, K. (2020) Organizational Hindrances to the Retention of Older Healthcare Workers. Nordic Journal of Working Life studies; 10. 1.
Jonsson, R. Dellve, L. Halleröd, B. (2019) Work despite poor health? A 14-year follow-up of how individual work accommodations are extending the time to retirement for workers with poor health conditions. SSM Population Health 9; 1005141
Jonsson, R., Lidwall, K. Holmgren, K. (2013) Does unbalanced gender composition in the workplace influence the association between psychosocial working conditions and sickness absence? Work 46 (1), 59-66