Mats Fred

Main research areas

• The organization of public sercotr/services
• Public sector innovation
• Projectification and temporary forms of organization
• The organization of knowledge, expertize and learning
• Political- and Organizational Ethnography

Current research

My research aims to increase our understandings of the organization of the public sector - with a particular focus on reforms initiatives and what broadly can be defined as public sector innovation. Much of this work is carried out in temporary and "experimental" forms of organization and in my research I try to understand how this work is enacted in practice and who the actors and coalisions of actors are that push this development.

Selected publications

• Translating reform: The rise and fall of social investment practices in Swedish local government - Lund University
• Making apps, owning data: Digital sovereignty and public authorities’ arrangements to “byte” back - Lund University
• Promoting public sector innovation: who does what, when and how? - Lund University