Hugo Hedlund

Hugo Hedlund serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at Umeå University, Sweden, with his office located in the MIT building (Campustorget 5, room MIT.E.424) in Umeå. His active research and teaching focus on digital innovation within institutionally complex public sector environments, maintaining direct contact through email and phone.

His research centers on digital transformation mechanisms through institutional logics perspectives, examining generative change processes and structural flexibility in public sector innovation. Key interests include how digital logic transposition reshapes welfare services and organizational structures, with strong theoretical grounding in institutional complexity and practical applications in government digitalization.

Analysis of his 2019-2023 publications reveals consistent focus on public sector digital innovation through institutional theory lenses, utilizing methodologies like document co-citation analysis and case studies. Recurring themes include co-creation frameworks, logic transposition dynamics, and the interplay between digital innovation and institutional constraints.

Hedlund contributes to the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation research group and previously led the "Co-creative welfare through digitalization" project (2017-2021). He teaches bachelor-level courses in the Behavioural Sciences and IT Environments program and Systems Analyst program at Umeå University, emphasizing holistic pedagogical approaches integrating cognitive, emotional, and physical dimensions of academic teaching.