Gunilla Avby

Gunilla Avby is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education, Stockholm University, specializing in organizational pedagogy, workplace learning, and evidence-based practice. She also holds an associate professorship in quality improvement and leadership at Jönköping University.

• Key Research Areas: Organizational learning, leadership development, knowledge utilization, and fall prevention in elderly care.
• Ongoing Projects: 12 million SEK from the KK Foundation for sustainable leadership systems (2022), and 2 million SEK from Forte Welfare Research for fall prevention programs (2023).

Academic Contributions: Her work explores paradoxes in organizational practice, including theory-practice dynamics, standardization vs. flexibility, and employee empowerment in structured environments. She co-developed tools like QUAL (Quality of Analysis) for child protection assessments and LearnOvation for leadership innovation.

Practical Impact: Avby bridges academic research with real-world applications, emphasizing employee tacit knowledge to enhance organizational performance and stakeholder collaboration across healthcare, social services, and civil society.

Publications: Her recent articles focus on integrating improvement methods with ambidexterity theory to balance exploration and exploitation in management, alongside empirical studies on innovation behaviors in welfare services.