Research

Teaching and supervision
Empirical focus: The exercise of power and the production of knowledge within public policy and mangement, performance management and measurement, evidence-based policymaking, health policy, employment policy, democracy, political rationalities, history of political ideas, the state.
Theoretical focus: Michel Foucault's analytics of power, new institutional theory, critical sociological theory, state theory, theories of democracy.

 Research areas 
The exercise of power and the production of knoweldge in public policy
New forms of governing in the public sector, including accreditation, benchmarking, performance management and measurement
Politics of public health
Employment policy
The history and political role of psychology 
Post-strukturalist theory, neo-institutionalist theory, governance theory, political sociological theory.

Curriculum
2016-.. Professor (full) in Public Policy and Performance Management, Roskilde University
2012-.. Professor (mso) in Public Policy and Performance Management, Roskilde University
2011-14 Associate Editor of the ECPR Press
2009-11 Head of Studies for Public Administration, Roskilde University
2006-12 Associate Professor in Politics and Administration, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University
2003 Assistant Professor in Politics and Administration, Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University
2000-02 Assistant Professor, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School
1998-2000 Administrator of the educational programme SLUSE, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
1998 PhD in International Development Studies, Roskilde University
1992 M. Sc. Human Geography, University of Copenhagen.

Research projects
2017-21: EU Horizon 2020: Transforming into Open, Innovative and Collaborative Governments (TROPICO). Responsible for WP8.
2009 Responsible for project on The calculative governing of employment policies in Australia and Denmark. Danish Social Science Research Council. 
2006-09 Responsible for sub-project on the Multi-level study of the meta-governance of the national and local governance networks at the Centre for Democratic Network Governance, Roskilde University.
2004-05 Participating in the Pilot Study at Centre for Democratic Network Governance, Roskilde University
2003 Research project The making of the developing work: The emergence, transformations and utilization of psy-technologies on the Danish labour market. The Danish Social Science Research Council. Affiliation with the Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University.
2000-02 Post.doc. project Work, social welfare and subjectivity A genealogy of the governing of human resources in post-WWII Malaysia. The Danish Social Science Research Council. Affiliation with the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School.
1994-98 PhD project at the Department for International Development Studies, RUC and Centre for Development Research.