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Organizing Mental Illness and Cancer Treatment (MENCA)
Duration: 2026–2028

MENCA examines how cancer treatment is organised for patients with pre-existing mental illness. The project studies how these patients move through the healthcare system, how professionals coordinate and make decisions along the way, and how relatives and close supporters contribute to navigating treatment across organisational boundaries.

The project focuses on the organisational conditions of cancer care. It pays particular attention to the effects of standardisation, specialisation, centralisation, and expectations of patient involvement. More specifically, MENCA explores how care is coordinated across departments and sectors, how case-based judgement is exercised within standardised pathways, how specialisation shapes collaboration and professional competence, and how centralised treatment structures affect continuity, access, and equity. The project is particularly interested in moments where organisational arrangements create friction, shift work between actors, or require negotiation of roles and expertise.

Methodologically, MENCA combines ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative interviews, patient journey mapping, and co-design activities. The empirical work is organised in subprojects that collectively examine treatment trajectories, professional experiences, and relatives’ roles in organization treatment trajectories. 

Project team: 

Associate Professor at CBS Kirstine Zinck Pedersen (PI)

Associate Professor at RUC Alexandra Jønsson

PhD fellow Ingeborg Vad

A steering group with professional stakeholders supports the project’s research, dissemination, and co-design activities

Funding:

The project is funded by The Danish Cancer Society 

Duration: 

The MEDIN project addresses digital exclusion among long-term incarcerated individuals in Danish prisons. The project is led by Ursula Plesner and is funded with DKK 5.3 million from the Velux Foundation’s HUM-praxis programme. 

Collaboration and purpose 

MEDIN is based on close collaboration between CBS, the Social Legal Aid Foundation, and the think tank Justitia. The project aims to strengthen digital inclusion through educational methods and policy recommendations developed jointly by the Foundation and Justitia, drawing on both research and practice-based experiments. 

Research focus 

From a research perspective, MEDIN generates new knowledge on the organization of digital inclusion, including shifts in responsibility, mechanisms of digital exclusion, and interactions between civil society actors and public authorities. The project also examines how research findings can inform political decision-making and support the development of practical tools to help incarcerated individuals in their digital integration. 

Methods and work packages 

The project consists of three work packages that combine document analysis, interviews, and practice-based experiments to ensure evidence-based solutions. Through an advisory board and broad dissemination, MEDIN aims to anchor knowledge and create long-term impacts on digital inclusion in Denmark. 

Duration: 2024–2027 

Written case records play a crucial role in the delivery of public services. They serve important legal and administrative purposes, support professional knowledge sharing and coordination, and are increasingly used during relational encounters with citizens. 

Research questions 

The RECORD project examines how frontline workers prioritise different purposes of recordkeeping in everyday practice, how these priorities are reflected in actual case records, and what implications this has for citizens and stakeholders. 

Empirical focus 

The project focuses on child protection agencies, an area where the quality and legality of case records have repeatedly been questioned by oversight authorities. The study seeks to understand how case records are produced and used, and how this shapes citizens’ experience of public encounters and the state more broadly. 

Methods and research design 

The project is based on ethnographic fieldwork and uses qualitative methods, including organisational ethnography in municipal child protection agencies, narrative interviews with children and families, and document analysis. 

Research team 

Anne Mette Møller (PI) 
Louise Jørring (Postdoc) 

Advisory board 

Steven Maynard-Moody 
Gabriela Lotta 

Anat Gofen 
Nadine Raaphorst 

Duration: 

GT-Dynprob is a research project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project examines how different forms of expertise influence the financial and social valuation of energy resources in Denmark. 

Collaboration and project group 

The project group includes researchers from Aalborg University, Copenhagen Business School, and DTU. 

Research team 

José Ossandon 
Peter Holm Jacobsen 
Trine Pallesen 

Advisory board 

Kristin Asdal 
Daniel Breslau 
Susi Geiger 
Julia Steinberger 

Duration: 

This PhD project examines the cultural context of the Danish parliament and explores how workplace dynamics and professional norms shape parliamentary work at Christiansborg. 

Research focus 

The study investigates processes of professional socialization among members of parliament and considers how these dynamics relate to broader questions about crises of representation. 

Researcher 

PhD research project by Nanna Camilla Mulamila Olsen 

Duration: 2021–2023 

Public actors such as municipalities, national agencies, and public utilities are central to reducing CO₂ emissions and leading green transitions. 

Research questions 

The CAPACITOR project examines how public actors develop and use organisational capacities in the governance of green transitions, and which combinations of capacities are needed to achieve transition goals. 

Methods and empirical basis 

The project compares 24 in-depth cases across the energy and maritime transport sectors. The dataset includes more than 250 interviews, 24 observations, and over 450 documents. 

Research team 

Trine Pallesen