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Nursing Research in Sweden: Academic Leadership

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This chapter discusses the development of Swedish nursing research from an academic leadership perspective. It is claimed that academic leadership is different from other leadership types because of such values as academic freedom. This may be true. There may also be a difference between academic leadership and leading a research group, which does the research and fosters the next generation of researchers, doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers. This chapter discusses the leadership of the first generation of professors, who paved the way for the second and perhaps also exerted influence over the third and fourth generations of nurse researchers. The provision of a learning environment for the doctoral students will be described from a leadership perspective as well as that of the students entering into it. The first generation of professors would not have been as successful if there had not been additional external factors driving development. The Vårdal Foundation was established in 1994 with the aim of contributing to the development of Swedish healthcare and allergy research. Its mission was to fund research relevant to care in a broader sense but it became an important platform for nursing research. This inspired other funding bodies to review their research agendas and take steps to include nursing research.

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    Jimmie Kristensson & Ingalill Rahm Hallberg

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  1. Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Thóra B. Hafsteinsdóttir

  2. School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Helga Jónsdóttir

  3. Department of Nursing Science, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Olso, Norway

    Marit Kirkevold

  4. Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Helena Leino-Kilpi

  5. Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Kirsten Lomborg

  6. Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Ingalill Rahm Hallberg

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Kristensson, J., Hallberg, I.R. (2019). Nursing Research in Sweden: Academic Leadership. In: Hafsteinsdóttir, T., Jónsdóttir, H., Kirkevold, M., Leino-Kilpi, H., Lomborg, K., Rahm Hallberg, I. (eds) Leadership in Nursing: Experiences from the European Nordic Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10964-6_21

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