Maria Wingren

About Maria Wingren

Maria Wingren, registered occupational therapist, is a PhD student and a lecturer at the School of Health Sciences. Maria’s research interest is in occupational therapy and time management for people with cognitive impairment, for example ADHD, autism or mental disorders. She is a lecturer at the occupational therapy program and has a former experience as occupational therapist in vocational rehabilitation.

Research 

Marias doctoral project involves studies within a major research project around the intervention Let’s get Organized (LGO). LGO is an occupational therapy group intervention aiming to improve skills in time management, planning and organization. Study I has an quantitative approach and it is a long term follow-up of LGO, 12 months after the intervention. Study II is a qualitative study aiming to describe parents’ experience of time management and parenting after participating in the intervention. Study III and IV includes data from a randomised control trial with a focus on time management and parenting sense of competence, and also a health economic evaluation of time management interventions.

Teaching

Maria is a lecturer at the occupational therapy program where she coordinates a course in vocational rehabilitation and a course in cognition within the masterprogram i occupational therapy . She has previously been working in the area of vocational rehabilitation in cooperation with different actors with a focus on work ability/work performance assessment and support in the return to work process.