Jennie Jackson

Jennie Jackson is a Lecturer in Occupational Health Science at the University of Gävle, Sweden. She leads the interdisciplinary strategic research program Inclusive Working Life (INKA) within the Health Promoting Work (HA) research area, focusing on work environment, health, and gender equality. She coordinates the international Goldilocks Work network, which designs productive jobs that promote worker health and capacity.

• Research Focus: Work environment, musculoskeletal disorders, gender equality, e-commerce sectors, and pandemic impacts on workplace inequality.
• Projects: Commerce 4.0 (e-commerce inequality), Goldilocks Work (workload balance), Rotovation (work rotation in laundries), and pandemic effects on Swedish commercial laundromats.
• Collaborations: Luleå University of Technology, Umeå University, Curtin University (Australia), and the National Research Center for the Working Environment (Denmark).
• Publications: Systematic reviews on musculoskeletal disorders, e-commerce labor precarity, and pandemic-driven workplace changes.
• Data Sources: The Construction Health Cohort (389,000 workers) and Swedish register linkages for long-term health outcomes.

Her work emphasizes designing "just right" workloads through task variation to prevent health deterioration while maintaining productivity, with active international engagement in knowledge dissemination.