Staff profile
Biography
Matt Sjoberg is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the Centre for Leadership and Followership at Durham University Business School. He holds two Bachelor's degrees (Statistics & Psychology), and two Master's degrees (Management & Psychology), all from Lund University, as well as a PhD from Lancaster University. He has studied abroad in Ireland (University College Dublin), Canada (Queen's University), and South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal).
Matt's research focuses on how people (e.g., leaders) make sense of themselves in interpersonal, intergroup, and leadership situations. He is currently developing a tool for measuring leader impostorism as well as looking at the factors that may lead to identity threat among leaders. He is a member of CREST (Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats), the UK's hub for behavioural and social science research into security threats and his PhD work involved analysing US military interrogations.
Publications
Chapter in book
Journal Article
- Sjöberg, M., & Sarwar, F. (2022). Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Relationship Between Modern Racism and Rape Blaming Attitudes among Swedish Students and Community Members. Psychological Reports, 125(1), 545-564. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294120978158
- Sjöberg, M., & Sarwar, F. (2020). Who Gets Blamed for Rapes: Effects of Immigration Status on the Attribution of Blame Toward Victims and Perpetrators. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35(13-14), 2446-2463. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517703371
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