Staff profile

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 military interrogations.   

Chapter in book

• The Cylinder Model
  
  Sjoberg, M., Taylor, P. J., & Conchie, S. M. (2023). The Cylinder Model. In G. Oxburgh, T. Myklebust, M. Fallon, & M. Hartwig (Eds.), Interviewing and Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II (pp. 283-298). Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP).

Journal Article

• Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Relationship Between Modern Racism and Rape Blaming Attitudes among Swedish Students and Community Members
  
  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
• Who Gets Blamed for Rapes: Effects of Immigration Status on the Attribution of Blame Toward Victims and Perpetrators
  
  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

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Interpersonal sensemaking: A powerful tool for facilitating cooperation in suspects
  
  Sjoberg, M. (2024, March 18). Interpersonal sensemaking: A powerful tool for facilitating cooperation in suspects. CREST Security Review, 18, 6-7.