The organizational and social work environment for LGBTQ people – A research review

In response to this, the agency initiated a research review project focusing on factors that promote or hinder LGBTQ people within the organizational and social work environment. The research review was based on the following questions:

• What main work environment risks for LGBTQ people have been identified?
• What main health factors affecting LGBTQ people have been identified in the work environment?
• What are the differences between homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in their different work environments? Are there common points of contact? Are there important differences?
• What characterizes an inclusive workplace; that is, a work environment that LGBTQ people themselves experience as good?

As part of the project a qualitative study of what experiences persons with trans-experiences have of organizational and social work environment:

• What main work environment risks for people with trans-experiences have been identified?
• What main health factors affecting people with trans-experiences have been identified in the work environment?
• What are the differences for people with trans-experiences with different background (gender identity, educational level, type of work) in their different work environments? Are there common points of contact? Are there important differences?
• What characterizes an inclusive workplace; that is, a work environment that people with trans-experience, themselves witness as good?

The assignment from Myndigheten för arbetsmiljökunskap is now finnished and the final report is published here . The project is still a part of Carin Hellström's avhandlingsarbete with focus on trans-experiences and work environment.

Project leader

Project team

Sara Andersson, PhD, Göteborgs universitet

Sofia Björk, universitetslektor, Göteborgs universitet

Project funding

Myndigheten för arbetsmiljökunskap