Deputy Vice-Chancellor
As deputy vice-chancellor I am part of the university management group, where we work to give LiU the best conditions to prosper and develop. A good example of this is our new strategic plan and vision for 2030.
Being responsible for LiUs education on bachelor, master and PhD levels implies assuring that we have attractive educational programs and courses at LiU. There is a strong focus on student recruitment but also on providing students with a good study climate and the best opportunities to graduate and be competitive afterwards.
Professor in Information Systems
For information about my research, see below.My research interest is how e-services and IT-systems can be developed in order to increase advantages and benefits both in the organization and in society. Which problems can technology solve and which challenges arise?
Public sector has great expectations on information technology (IT) to solve the societal challenges we are facing both in Sweden and globally. E-services and IT-systems should help governments to use resources more effectively.
At the same time citizens and businesses should be offered high service levels and good quality in their meetings with public sector. Public processes should be more transparent and democratic aspects strengthened. Our research focuses challenges in achieving these goals.
IT is often seen as an obvious part of the solution to all sorts of problems. Systems to do things faster, safer and better are constantly being developed. Technology becomes mobile, data sets are large and the possibilities to develop new e-services, apps, and "smart" digital solutions seem endless. The public sector is no exception to this optimistic view on the potential of ICT. In our research, we have spent many years studying how electronic government affects citizens, businesses, public organizations and other stakeholders. To critically review the conditions for change, change processes and results of organizational and IT development are common themes. Research questions about what people, for example, perceive as safe and how they trust e-services for interaction with public organizations contain much more than technology aspects. The context that e-government takes place within affects both conditions and results, in policy and practice. Therefore, contextual factors are often focused in our studies, whether projects are on electronic identification with e-IDs, involvement of citizens and other stakeholders in e-service development or smart cities, smart grids and other kinds of digitalization in homes.
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