Anne Mette Kjeldsen serves as Associate Professor at Aarhus University's Department of Political Science, where her research bridges public administration, public management, and leadership theory with practical applications in public sector organizations across health, education, and social services. Her research portfolio centers on public service motivation, public values, and professionalism, with current investigations into distributed leadership models, change management dynamics, and collaborative governance structures. She examines professional learning communities in public schools and sector-specific differences in employee motivation, utilizing methodological diversity including qualitative, quantitative, experimental, and mixed methods approaches to address complex public management challenges. Recent publications (2020-2024) reveal concentrated scholarly activity in distributed leadership within healthcare quality improvement and educational settings, crisis leadership responses in public organizations, and longitudinal analyses of public service motivation's impact on organizational outcomes. Her work consistently employs robust empirical designs including randomized field experiments and panel studies to examine leadership-employee relationships and organizational change processes. Her research program includes significant grant-funded projects: Learning from errors in public digitalization (2021-2024) Inclusion of novices in public digitalization (2021-2022) SAMFO: New collaboration and organizational forms to promote learning, well-being, and development in Danish public schools (2020-2024) King Frederiks Center for Public Leadership (2018-present) Distributed leadership (2012-2016) Kjeldsen maintains active collaboration with the King Frederiks Center for Public Leadership, contributing to its mission of advancing evidence-based leadership practices in Denmark's public sector through research-practice integration and organizational development initiatives.
