Ing-Marie Carlsson is a midwife and gained a PhD at Karolinska Institutet, Department of Women´s and Children´s Health, Stockholm, Sweden with the thesis “The movement towards birth: a study of childbirth self-efficacy and early labour”. Since then, Ing-Marie Carlsson has conducted several health science projects focusing on lifestyle interventions and implementation research. Further, she has expertise in the methodology of grounded theory and has also an interest in the research field of health geography. Ing-Marie Carlsson is the head of the department of Health and Nursing. She also teaches in health and healthcare in nursing education at a basic and advanced level.