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Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren serves as an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Lund University, with additional affiliations at CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy). Her academic work spans municipal governance, urban planning, and innovation studies, with particular emphasis on how municipalities navigate organizational change through experimental approaches.
Her research interests center on municipal development planning and new forms of organization in public administration, especially the emergence of projects, experiments, and pilots. She examines how these organizational innovations affect power dynamics, governance structures, and local autonomy within changing municipal contexts. A significant portion of her recent work focuses on sustainable mobility and smart city initiatives, analyzing how municipalities implement and contest innovations in urban transport systems. Her approach combines critical innovation studies with organizational theory to understand how public interest and epistemic justice are negotiated in municipal innovation processes.
Mukhtar-Landgren's publication record reveals a consistent trajectory exploring the intersection of public sector logics and experimental governance. Her recent work shows increasing focus on urban mobility innovations, particularly examining how municipalities implement smart mobility solutions through pilots and testbeds. She investigates the organizational paradoxes that emerge when traditional bureaucratic structures engage with temporary, experimental forms of organization. Her research often employs comparative Nordic perspectives to identify patterns in how municipalities approach sustainable transport innovation.
- Board member of KEFU (Council for Municipal Economic Research and Education)
- Board member of Urban Arena
- Affiliated researcher at K2 (National Center for Public Transport) since 2015
- Co-leader of the Public Sector Innovation theme at CIRCLE
Mukhtar-Landgren coordinates the department's Public Administration Theory (PAT) research group and teaches courses on Swedish politics and administration, methodology, and political theory across all academic levels. Her current research portfolio includes multiple projects examining responsibility in innovation, resilience in intermodal travel, and risk navigation in testbed planning, reflecting her sustained commitment to understanding how municipalities innovate while maintaining democratic accountability and public value.
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