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I am a doctoral student at medical university Karolinska Instituet in Stockholm, Sweden.
My doctoral project is an Action Research project that aims to develop a "Death Education" program that brings together school children and elderly people to discuss topics related to dying, death and bereavement in an informal way. This may normalize death as a topic that can openly be discussed, increase intergenerational meetings, and increase wellbeing for both the school children and elderly people. The arts will be used to facilitate these meetings. To this end I will work together with artists from different backgrounds. 

I have a design background and in my work I have focussed on improving experiences of health and care with an interdisciplary approach. I have a Bachelor of Engineering from The Hague University, in the Netherlands and a Master of Fine Arts from Konstfack, university of arts crafts and design in Sweden.

My doctoral project is part of research program DöBra, which overarching aim is to diminish avoidable suffering related to dying, death and bereavement from a public health perspective.

www.döbra.se
www.maxkleijberg.com