Research

Professor at Dept.of Social Sciences and Business since 2011.

Research fields:

I am a care and gender researcher that has researched care and the governance of care historically and contemporary (neo-liberalism/New Public Management and New Public Governance), its rationalities, conflicts and dilemmas as well as the way care professionals translate political rationalities and implications for those at the receiving end of care. Resistance and silencing has been important in this work. More recently, I have studied the emergence of care crisis in a Nordic context and its specific characteristics compared to more libeal welfare regimes.

As a gender researcher I work with feminist theories of the state - and the relationship between welfare professions and the state. In my work I have worked with issues of justice, recognition and misrecognition inspired by Fraser's seminal work.

Methodologically, I apply a discourse theoretical stance, but have also done interviews. 

Education:

Ph.D. (Århus, Political Science), Cand. Scient. Pol. (Århus, Political Science), Exam. Art (Århus, Philosophy) and MA (Essex, Government) with distinction.

Visiting professor:

2011 Rikkyo University (Japan), 2017 Tampere University (Finland) and 2019 fellow at Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies. 2024 University of Humanistic studies (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

PhD students and post.docs's

I have so far supervised/co-supervised more than ten PhD theses to completion, had visiting phd students from various european countries and two post.doc's from Europe and overseas have been visiting on research stays. 

Publications in English:

A Care Crisis in the Nordic welfare states? written and edited with  Lise Lotte Hansen og Laura Horn (2022)

Struggles in (elderly) care - A feminist view (2017)

Promoting Innovation in the Social Services (2014) with Johannes Eurich and others.

Europeanization, Care and Gender - global Complexities (2011) written and edited with Marja Keränen and Anne Kovalainen.

Dilemmas in the Nordic Welfare State (2005) written and edited with Tine Rask Eriksen

I have published in the following international, scientific journals:

European Journal of Women's Studies, Acta Sociologica, International Journal of Feminist Politics, Critical Social Policy, NORA: Nordic Journal of feminist and Gender Research, International Journal of Social Welfare, Journal of social policy, Social Policy & Administration, Health Policy, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, International Journal of Care and Caring, Sociology of health and Illness.