Math­ilde Hjer­rild Carlsen

Professional and/or academic experience

• I work with knowledge production and mobilization between research and practice. I’m responsible for applied research projects at Centre for School-Industry Collaboration at House of Natural Sciences.
• From 2014 – 2022, PhD, RA and industrial postdoc research projects on partnerships, collaboration, network-management at CBS and University College Copenhagen. 
• Earlier positions in public administration, local and central, working in operations, development, and policy, coordinating change processes, assessment, and policy implementation.

Teaching and supervision 

I currently teach and supervise in Organization in Practice, cand.merc. (psyk.). My previous experience includes teaching Managing Professionals, Qualitative Methods, and Philosophy of Science, HA (psyk.) and HA (com.) I have supervised master’s theses in the Master of Educational Leadership at DPU, as well as bachelor’s and master’s theses at CBS in the fields of professions, psychology of work, welfare management, and policy implementation.

Primary research areas

• Cross-sectoral collaboration and partnership organizations
• Coordination of professional work with a focus on everyday practices
• Public education management
• Ethnography and qualitative research
• Sociology of engagement and French pragmatic sociology

Selected publications

Carlsen, M. H. (2025). Virksomheders værdier i samarbejdet med skoler. Forskningsrapport. Naturvidenskabernes Hus, 2025, 60 p.

Carlsen, M. H, Hansen, M. P., Juhlin, C. & Meilvang, M. L. (2025). Engaging with Engagement: Ethnographic Sensitivity in the Sociology of Regimes of Engagement. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 12, 1, s. 57-80 24 s.

Bergmann, R. & Carlsen, M. H. (2024) Engagementsregimer i samskabelse. In Nye tendenser i organisation og ledelse: 15 bud på nødvendig organisatorisk forandring. København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, p. 197-219.

Carlsen, M. H., Ryberg, M. L, Hansen, M. P. (2024) Kompromisser, kritik og kompositionskunst i uddannelse : En introduktion til Laurent Thévenots engagementssociologi. In: Dansk Pædagogisk Tidsskrift, No. 2, 7, p. 55-71

Carlsen, M. H., & Hermansen, J. J. (2023). Virksomheder i samarbejde med skoler - geografi, brancher og størrelse. Naturvidenskabernes Hus

Carlsen, M. H. (2022). Familiar strangers: Managing engagements in public-private partnerships in education. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 8(2), 119–132.