Greta Häggblom Kronlöf 

I am an associate professor in occupational therapy, employed as a senior lecturer at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the Unit Health and Rehabilitation. I share my position between being lecturer in the occupational therapist program, at basic, advanced and research level and Clinical Lecturer for the City of Gothenburg and my research. ​As a researcher, my interest is to understand perceived health among people from an occupational perspective. With my dissertation work Participation in everyday life (2007), I investigated how participation in everyday life is experienced by the elderly themselves and how technology in everyday life was perceived and affected participation and health among the very old. During my postdoctoral studies, the research was mainly focused on health-promoting measures among elderly people living at home studied in the research group FRESH - FRail Elderly Support Research Group which is part of the Center for Aging and Health Education - AgeCap http://agecap.gu.se/. Research is about health promotion with a focus on how to enable involvement in everyday activities among older people through health promotion efforts. This mainly took place through two RCT studies Elderly people in Risk zone and Livslots Angered. In the latter project, we studied how to support the health of foreign-born people who are aging in Sweden. Parts of this research took place in collaboration with the research at the Center for person-centered care - GPCC http://www.gpcc.gu.se/ .  I have also been active as a researcher at the University of Borås, Department of Resource Recovery and Community Development. The research group examines why waste occurs—particularly food waste—and how it can be reduced through improved sorting and increased reuse, for example by transforming old bread into fungi‑based food. The overall aim is to contribute to a sustainable, circular society where waste is converted into new raw material resources and how this affects people´s engagement in daily occupations.