Maria Koldestam

Maria Koldestam is a researcher at the Department of Health and Caring Sciences within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Linnaeus University, specializing in nursing education and caritative caring frameworks for clinical practice learning.

Her research focuses on:

• Development and evaluation of the MILO (Model for Improvements in Learning Outcomes) conceptual model grounded in caritative caring
• Undergraduate nursing students' learning experiences during clinical practice
• Children's speech intonation patterns and forest-based preventive health interventions
• Integration of caring and learning as parallel processes in educational settings

Analysis of her 2021-2025 publications reveals a consistent methodological emphasis on phenomenographic and cross-sectional approaches to examine student perceptions, supervisor experiences, and semester-based learning progression within nursing education. Her work bridges theoretical caritative caring principles with practical clinical training applications.

She leads two major research projects: "Learning to focus" investigating contrastive intonation in Stockholm and Skåne Swedish children, and "The forest – an active preventive health care for children?" implementing forest-based school interventions for grades 3-6. Koldestam is also affiliated with the "Connected children" research centre focused on knowledge-based prevention strategies.