LATEST RESEARCH:

MEN’S NETWORKING IN ACADEMIA Work, Employment & Society

GENDERED SERVICE WORK IN ACADEMIA: Current Sociology

WOMEN RESEARCHERS’ VISIBILITY Gender and Education

MY BOOK, The Power of Citizens and Professionals, IS NOW PUBLISHED AS PAPERBACK.

My research focuses on identity work in organisations, career and gender in academia, the sociology of professions and power and qualitative methodology. My keen interest in qualitative methodology has culminated in the publication of several books, including the co-edited SAGE anthology, Qualitative Analysis: Eight Approaches for the Social Sciences from 2020 (click here).

Recently, I have concluded a research project examining the influence of bureaucratic principles, market values and psychological norms in the interactions between citizens and professionals in public organisations. This inquiry has led to the publication The Power of Citizens and Professionals in Welfare Encounters: The Influence of Bureaucracy, Market, and Psychology published with Manchester University Press (click here for details), along with numerous articles featured in British Journal of Sociology (2019), Journal of Classical Sociology and in Symbolic Interaction (2020). The project was funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. 

Currently I am part of the management team of the Danish Power Inquiery (click at  Magtudredningen2). My other current research project concerns career, network and gender in academia, which I conduct together with prof. Margaretha Järvinen. We have just completed interviews with approx. 200 associate professors and professors and have published four papers from this project (see links above).

I chair the CBS Professors’ Association and serve as a board member at the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) and the Danish Center for Social Science Research (VIVE).