Episode 33 of our podcast series features professor Elisabeth Berg who reflects on recent developments in Swedish higher education in relation to new public management, and highlights the findings from a recent project that examined the role of gender in this new managerial context.
http://uv-cast.uio.no/hedda/ihe-podcast/2012/berg/hedda-podcast-2012-berg-mixdown.mp3
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Professor Elisabeth Berg, Luleå University
Elisabeth Berg is a professor at the Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences in the Division of Human Work Science at the Luleå University in Sweden, and her main research interests are linked to the relationship between working conditions, organisation, public leadership and gender, and she has published more than 120 articles, reports and other publications on these topics.
She has extensive experience in researching women and middle management and has engaged both in research and theory development in this area. Her recent research has focused mainly on New public management and its implications for academics and managers in England and Sweden, in cooperation with the University of East London.
Picture: Luleå University