Linda Lundgaard Andersen

Linda Lundgaard Andersen is Professor at Roskilde University's Department of People and Technology, where she directs research on social innovation, welfare systems, and organizational ethics. Her academic leadership includes heading the PhD School for People and Technology.

Research examines social entrepreneurship, co-production in public services, civil society dynamics, and learning processes within welfare organizations, utilizing ethnographic and psychoanalytic methodologies. Her work critically evaluates neoliberal transformations in public sector governance.

Recent publications analyze collaborative governance in Nordic welfare states, arts-based social innovation, and voluntary sector infrastructures. Article trends reveal consistent engagement with institutional change, participatory methodologies, and critical analyses of welfare transformations.

• Journal of Research Practice, Best Reviewer Award (2012)
• Roskilde Universitets pris i socialt entreprenørskab og social innovation (2013)

Leads international projects including NOS (Coproduction in Nordic Welfare States) and directs CDL-SQI research on software quality. Supervises doctoral candidates and develops curricula in social entrepreneurship and organizational studies.