Welfare professions and work-related wellbeing in the wake of crisis

Description

This project investigates the organisational and professional conditions under which staff working in municipal welfare services can improve their work-related wellbeing. Using a combination of quantitative (survey) and qualitative (interview) methods, we focus on occupations and professions that have historically suffered from stress, burnout, anxiety, and other forms of diminished work-related wellbeing.

By linking our study to two system-threatening crises—the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2024) and the wildfires of 2018—we draw on the experiences and insights identified by welfare staff themselves as central to the decrease/increase of wellbeing in the workplace.