The Management

Head of Research

Sidse Arnfred

Sidse Arnfred is Head of Research in Region Zealand Mental Health Service and Professor of Psychiatry with special assignments within psychotherapy research at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
She is also a post-graduate clinical lecturer (PKL) in psychiatry at the same institute in Education Region East.
Sidse Arnfred is a specialist in psychiatry and an approved supervisor in cognitive behavioral therapy (Danish Psychiatric Association).
Since 2008, Sidse Arnfred has had clinical and research focus on psychopathology, psychotherapy and recovery-oriented interventions. Since 2015, medical education research in psychiatry has been added to her portfolio.
Sidse Arnfred masters both qualitative and quantitative methods and focuses on developing and adopting new research methods and psychotherapeutic interventions.

Research Manager

Lene Lauge Berring

Lene's research focuses on organizational and user-participatory strategies to promote recovery and help people cope with psychological pain. Among these, Lene's focus areas are the prevention of violence and coercion in psychiatry through empowering care interventions such as de-escalation and Safewards. Through qualitative and user-participatory research methods, Lene investigates how practice-based principles can influence daily life on psychiatric wards and create environments that prevents violence and coercion. Furthermore, Lene is interested in how these methods can be used within other hospital specialties such as somatic emergency departments. As the research is action-oriented, practical results such as teaching programs, guidelines and mobile applications are concurrently produced.