Research

I am associate professor of Politics and Public Administration at the Roskilde School of Governance (RSG), Department of Political Science and Business. I am part of the research leader team of RSG, co-director and co-founder of the Centre for People Analytics in Government, and co-founder of the Global Survey of Public Servants. 

My research interests encompass a variety of topics centering on public employees: Human resource management, leadership and motivation, ethical and unethical behavior, bureaucracy and red tape, as well as whistleblowing and other ‘rebellious’ behavior in public service. In addition, I research citizen-state interactions, comparative public management, and digital public administration.

I participate in multiple projects using surveys of public employees to shed light on these themes, often including comparative surveys across countries. Currently, for instance, I am involved in a field experiment of the effect of executive training on employee engagement in Luxembourg.

Methodologically, I am primarily quantitatively oriented, relying especially on experimental methods. However, I am knowledgeable of, have contributed to, and teach the literature on case study methods.

Teaching

I am teaching coordinator for the bachelor’s introduction to political science (SIB), survey methods, and research design; master level courses on public leadership, bureaucracy and burden reduction, international and comparative public management; as well as  case study research and experimental research design.