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Ul­rik Bis­gaard Uls­rod Røhl

Part-time Lecturer

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Offentlig forvaltning Automatisering Digitalisering Kunstig intelligens Offentlig ret

My re­search: Pub­lic au­thor­ity in the di­git­al age

With the ongoing digital transformation of public administration around the globe, public authority is increasingly exercised digitally. My research centers on the many faces of “digital public authority”, and how it affects public management, organizational practices and compliance with norms and rules of good administration. It is – among other issues – about algorithms, big data and AI as well as the principle of proportionality, equal access and rights of complaint. The ambition is to understand and support how (public) managers in Denmark and internationally can reap the benefits and prevent the risks of technology use both within and beyond their organisations. 

Publications

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17. november 2025

Forskere

Digitaliseringsklar lovgivning er langt sværere end politikerne tror - også i en tid med AI

Hanne Marie Motzfeldt

Ur­su­la Ples­ner, Associate Professor

Ul­rik Bis­gaard Uls­rod Røhl, Part-time Lecturer

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15. juli 2025

Nurturing Digital Government Reform

Nuggets of Wisdom From a Global Frontrunner

Ul­rik Bis­gaard Uls­rod Røhl, Part-time Lecturer

Andreas Berggreen
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april 2025

Inside Algorithmic Bureaucracy

Disentangling Automated Decision-making and Good Administration

Ul­rik Bis­gaard Uls­rod Røhl, Part-time Lecturer

Joep Crompvoets
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Links

Pod­cast on re­cent re­search
Listen to pod­cast, where Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Re­view Ed­it­or, Pro­fess­or Hongtao Yi, and I dis­cuss Pro­fess­or Morten Balle Hansen’s and my re­cent art­icle, “Auto­mated, Ad­min­is­trat­ive De­cision-mak­ing and Good Gov­ernance: Syn­er­gies, Trade-Offs, and Lim­its”. In the art­icle, we provide an over­view of how pub­lic au­thor­it­ies’ use of auto­mated, ad­min­is­trat­ive de­cision-mak­ing relates to val­ues of good gov­ernance.
Podcast on “Automated, Administrative Decision-making and Good Governance: Synergies, Trade-Offs, and Limits”
Video on re­cent re­search [2:38]
In the video, I in­tro­duce to Pro­fess­or Morten Balle Hansen’s and my re­cent art­icle, “Auto­mated, Ad­min­is­trat­ive De­cision-mak­ing and Good Gov­ernance: Syn­er­gies, Trade-Offs, and Lim­its” pub­lished in Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Re­view. In the art­icle, we provide an over­view of how pub­lic au­thor­it­ies’ use of auto­mated, ad­min­is­trat­ive de­cision-mak­ing relates to val­ues of good gov­ernance.
Video on “Automated, Administrative Decision-making and Good Governance: Synergies, Trade-Offs, and Limits”

Outside activities

Aca­dem­ic col­lab­or­a­tion with KOM­BIT A/S , 2023 - 2025

My re­search is based on a part­ner­ship between KOM­BIT and Copen­ha­gen Busi­ness School. KOM­BIT is a spe­cial­ized IT or­gan­iz­a­tion foun­ded in 2009 by all Dan­ish mu­ni­cip­al­it­ies via their mu­tu­al as­so­ci­ation, Loc­al Gov­ern­ment Den­mark. KOM­BIT’s main ob­ject­ive is to sup­port the di­git­al trans­formation of mu­ni­cip­al­it­ies in­clud­ing pro­cure­ment of large IT sys­tems on their be­half.
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Key­note speak­er on the di­git­al trans­formation of pub­lic ad­min­is­tra­tion , -

Key­note speak­er on the con­sequences of the on­go­ing di­git­al trans­formation of pub­lic ad­min­is­tra­tion fo­cus­ing on pub­lic man­age­ment, or­gan­iz­a­tion­al cap­ab­il­it­ies, pub­lic val­ues and poli­cy­mak­ing.