Ditte Andersen

Professor MSO, PhD

  • The Social Sector

Key Expertise:

  • Civic and user involvement,
  • Inequality and social heritage,
  • Gender and identity,
  • Vulnerable persons
Ditte Andersen is a sociologist preoccupied with narratives of relational justice, care work and social inequality in the context of the Danish welfare state. Her research examines the interaction between professionals and young people with complex problems including drug use, mental illness and homelessness. A narrative approach constitutes the common ground for her research and her publications address in various ways the question of how narratives work as sense-making tools that shape the way humans act. In her current research projects she studies 1) lay perceptions of social inequality, 2) co-production of recovery involving participants experiencing mental illness, and 3) unpaid care work during the COVID-19 lockdown with special attention to gender bias and the experience among some women of 'imposed voluntarism'.

Selected publications

Scientific article
MAY 2020
  • Labor market
  • Social issues
  • Children, youth and family
  • Daycare, school and education
  • Health

Andersen, D. (2020). Stuck! Welfare state dependency as lived experience. European Societies, 22(3), 317-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2019.1616796

Scientific article
2020

Andersen, D., Ravn, S., & Thomson, R. (2020). Narrative sense-making and prospective social action: methodological challenges and new directions. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(4), 367-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1723204

Scientific article
1. JUN 2015
  • Social issues

Andersen, D. (2015). Stories of change in drug treatment: A narrative analysis of ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ in institutional storytelling. Sociology of Health and Illness, 37(5), 668-682. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12228

Book contribution
3. DEC 2020

Andersen, D. (2020). Narrative ethnography: How to study stories in the context of their telling. In Handbook of Ethnography in Healthcare Research Routledge.

Scientific article
14. DEC 2020
  • Management and implementation

Andersen, D., Kirkegaard, S., Carlsen, H., & Toubøl, J. (2020). Co-production of care during COVID-19. Contexts - sociology for the public, 19(4), 14-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536504220977928

Scientific article
27. JUN 2018
  • Management and implementation
  • Economic and governance
  • Social issues
  • Children, youth and family
  • Health

Andersen, D., & Torbenfeldt Bengtsson, T. (2018). Timely care: Rhythms of bureaucracy and everyday life in cases involving youths with complex needs. Time & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X18783371

Scientific article
SEP 2020

Dyrvig, T., Andersen, D., & Presser, L. (2020). "Not a Real Prostitute”: Narrative Imagination, Social Policy, and Care for Men who Sell Sex. Sexuality Research and Social policy, 17, 442-453. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-019-00407-y

Scientific article
25. FEB 2018
  • Management and implementation
  • Social issues
  • Health

Nielsen, S. K., & Andersen, D. (2018). Co‐production in community mental health services: blurred boundaries or a game of pretend? Sociology of Health and Illness, 40(5), 828-842. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12722

Scientific article
10. DEC 2018
  • Management and implementation
  • Social issues

Andersen, D., & Lue Kessing, M. (2018). Stigma, problem drug use and welfare state encounters: Changing contours of stigmatization in the era of social investment. Addiction Research and Theory, 27(4), 277-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/16066359.2018.1508568

Areas

VIVE – The Danish Centre for Social Science Research provides knowledge that contributes to developing the welfare society and strengthening quality development, efficiency enhancement and governance in the public sector, both in municipalities, regions and nationally.
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