Holger Højlund

Presentation

A present research interest is welfare management seen in terms of the complex interconnectedness of political, administrative and service-related decision making. Also I am interested in, how traditional boundaries between the public, private and voluntary sectors of society are increasingly being transgressed, user involvement, social innovation and co-production. At the moment I am engaged in different research projects at the areas of local health promotion, municipal elderly care, primary school education, and network management at the area for children care. At CBS, I am head of the master program in “Political Communication and Management” and teaching at the master of “Public Administration” and master in "Public Governance”. Externally I hold some board positions and advisory board positions in public organisations, and i co-edit the journal of Distinktion, Scandinavian Journal of Social theory.

Primary research areas

• Public Private Partnerships in welfare
• Consumerism
• User roles and involvement public services
• Quality strategies in welfare
• Network management   

Courses

• Planning, organizing and teaching a Ph.d.-Course: Phantasmatic and Discursive readings of post‐liberalism, Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, 19–22 December 2011.
• Teaching ”Samfundets kommunikative differentiering”, Master Politisk kommunikation og ledelse
• Teaching ”Politik, stat og kommunikation”
• teaching ”Magtens former”
• Teaching in ”Ledelsesfagligt grundforløb

Supervision

• Ph.d.-supervision, dissertations, group projects, projects on managerial training programs,  external projects