Professor of Political Science Lotte Bøgh Andersen at Aarhus BSS is the recipient of this year’s Research Communication Prize for her wide-ranging communication of research in public leadership and administration.

Lotte Bøgh Andersen’s career is impressive in every way. She took her PhD in 2005 and was appointed professor as early as 2012. Since 2008 she has had a part-time post at VIVE alongside her position at Aarhus University. She has directed major research projects, including a grant from the prestigious Sapere Aude research leadership programme.

Lotte Bøgh Andersen has an outstanding ability to communicate her research to those who want to know what characterises good leadership and how to promote it. This is true of national and international colleagues, as well as the Danish public sector managers and employees with whom she collaborates. Among other things, Lotte has held numerous lectures for everyone from permanent secretaries and municipal leaders to ordinary citizens in community halls and through the Danish University Extension (Folkeuniversitetet). In the period 2014-2017 she made no less than 186 appearances. 

“Research only makes sense for me if the results are shared, both with other academics and with relevant players in society,” says Lotte Bøgh Andersen.

In 2017 she was appointed to the Government’s Leadership Commission, where she has helped to make recommendations that could improve public leadership in the future. Since May 2018 she has headed the newly-established Crown Prince Frederik Center for Public Leadership, which aims to improve the public sector in the interests of citizens and society as a whole. Alongside her research career Lotte Bøgh Andersen teaches at Bachelor’s, Graduate and Master’s level, helping to educate the leaders of today and of the future.

She has won a number of awards for her impressive accomplishments, including the prize for best PhD dissertation at the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2005 and prizes for best article in top international journals such as the Public Administration Review and the International Public Management Journal.