Linda Lundgaard Andersen

Linda Lundgaard Andersen, phd, is a professor in learning, evaluation and social innovation at Roskilde University. She is co-director at the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and director of the Doctoral School of People and Technology at Roskilde University. She is also a trained psychoanalytic psychotherapist from Nordic Psychoanalytic Collegium, DK. She has been visiting professor at Malmø University, SE and Stavanger University, NO. Her research interests includes learning and social innovation in welfare services, democracy and forms of governance in human services, psycho-societal theory and method, ethnographies of the public sector, social entrepreneurship, voluntary organizations and social enterprises. Recently, she has been researching transformations and shifts of paradigms in the Danish and Scandinavian welfare services focusing on a renewed discourse and practice of cocreation, coproduction and partnership in social work and human services. She resides at the board of EMES, a Research Network for Social Enterprises. She also direct a NordForsk research grant on Coproduction in the Nordic Welfare States in Transformation and has a high track record as Principal Investigator in more than 30 national, Nordic and international research grants. Bio: www.ruc.dk/~lla || mail lla@ruc.dk

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