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Christine Ipsen is Professor in Technology Implementationat DTU Engineering Technology

My key research interests are organizational behavior, occupational health, and management.

In my work, I aim at developing new knowledge and reframe the way we think about management of work. Building on ideas from circular economy and integrating knowledge from management and organisational psychology, together with interntional colleagues I have developed the concept of circular work (CW) as a more sustainable alternative to current understandings of work, where resources are not depleted. 

As industry and research has advanced knowledge to develop sustainable solutions while ensuring economic growth, less attention has been paid to sustainable work and how to ensure well-being while securing performance. With new ways of working including hybrid-remote work, there is a need for new knowledge about how to combine different fields to develop new knowledge about how managers, organisations and stakeholders can ensure sustainable work that attends to both well-being and performance in tandem. 

Over the years I have specialized in interventions in knowledge- and office work to ensure performance and well-being in tandem and have written a large number of publications about participatory interventions in knowledge work.

I have co-developed the Fish-Bone method, a participatory tool to explore what creates enthusiam and strain at a workplace, an Evaluation tool, to continuously evaluate the progress of an intervention and implementation of changes and a participatory guide to support hybrid-workplaces to address the challenges the face when engaging with the new ways of working.

Christine Ipsen is:

- Visiting Senior Fellow at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

- Co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Workplace Health Management

- Member of the Editorial Board of Safety Science.

- Affiliated with University of Massachusetts- Lowell, US and the Center for Promotion of Health in New England Workplacees (CPH-NEW).

- Member of the scientific board of the National Research Fund for Work Environment Research

- Member of the commission for industrial accidents (Agriculture and Construction sites) appointed by the Minister of Occupation

- Former Vice-chair of the Scandinavian Academy of Industrial Engineering and Management - www.scaiem.org.

- From 2012 -2016 she was head of the PhD school of DTU MAN.

Christine Ipsen is masters of Science (2001) and received her PhD (2007) for her study of the characteristics of knowledge work and how to develop the workprocesses to ensure improved well-being. 

Research interest:

Circular work and Sustainable management - managing organizational performance and employee well-being in tandem

Sustainable Hybrid-work - the climate effect of the new ways of working (facilities and mobility)

Implementation of new technologies and the effect on our work,  how it is managed and our well-being and performance

Interventions and organizational change 

- Intervention leadership 

- Design of participatory tools 

- Organizational design

Development of work processes in knowledge work

Knowledge work and Knowledge management

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Christine Ipsen is Professor at DTU Engineering Technology at the Technical University of Denmark.

She is specialized in development of knowledge work to ensure producitivity and well-being and has written a large number of publications about participatory interventions in knowledge work, knowledge sharing and knowledge management.

Her research adresses the needs of managers and employees in knowledge intensive work and advances the knowledge about the how to develop knowledge work, processes and management based on in-house tacit and explicit knowledge and the challenges and benefits it causes in the effort to ensure productivity and well-being. 

In 2012 shed became head of the DTU Management Engineering PhD school. Christine is masters of Science (2001) and received her PhD (2007) for her study of the characteristics of knowledge work and how to develop the workprocesses to ensure improved well-being.