Management and organisation

VIVE’s day-to-day management:

• Lotte Jensen, CEO
• Mette Deding, Vice Director
• Torben Tranæs, Executive Director of Research
• Hanne Friis Kaas, Executive Director of Resources
• Carsten Strømbæk Pedersen, Head of Research for VIVE Education, Children and Youth
• Kræn Blume Jensen, Head of Research for VIVE VIVE Social Welfare and the Labour Market
• Ulrik Hvidman, Head of Research for VIVE Governance and Public Economics
• Sanne Schioldann Haase, Head of Research for VIVE Health and Later Life
• Hanne Søndergaard Pedersen, Head of Communication
• Magnus Myhre From, Head of Finance
• Hanne Søndergaard Pedersen, Project development manager

Research and analysis at VIVE is organised in four departments:

This department works with social issues and the labor market, which includes the policy areas of social policy, labor market and employment policy, integration policy, and handicap policy.
In addition, central areas of focus in the Department are living conditions, social mobility, poverty, social vulnerability, and handicaps, as they are closely linked to job life and employment. We also look at how the labor market works as well as how employment interventions are implemented and how effective they are. The size of the workforce is another central theme in the work of the department. Here, integration of immigrants and retention of seniors in the labor market play a special role.
We are also concerned with crime, which is linked to social conditions in numerous ways, and which we In Denmark traditionally follow up on with social interventions. Furthermore, Greenlandic issues and the social area in Greenland are a significant focus in the department.

This department works with children’s and adolescents’ development, learning, and life conditions across daycare, school, and secondary, vocational, and tertiary education . Interventions targeting children and adolescents in need of special support also constitute a central part of our research and analysis work. We investigate the well-being of children and adolescents and how they learn and develop, as well as how different frameworks and interventions can support this development. This includes work with inclusive learning environments, children’s and adolescents’ wellbeing, transitions in the lives of children and adolescents, and social vulnerability. Other areas of focus are prevention, social measures, and placement of children and adolescents in vulnerable situations. The department is also concerned with teaching models, tests and evaluation, and how these affect learning, motivation, and participation opportunities for different groups of children and adolescents. Furthermore, we look at how governance, organization, and management in the areas of daycare and education contribute to quality, coherence, and development in practice.

In VIVE Governance and Public Economics, we work with how the public sector is organized and how welfare can be delivered so that the population receives the best quality possible in relation to the costs. We analyze the economic framework of municipalities and governance of the major welfare areas as well as the economic consequences of public interventions. In addition, we carry out systematic research reviews of the intervention effects. We also work with the implementation of welfare policy and translation of these into actual interventions in the encounter with the population – with a special focus on the roles of leaders and professionals. Moreover, we investigate how prioritization in the public sector is made in a democratic system, and how welfare is often delivered in an interplay between the public sector and civil society. Here we have a particular focus on the area of social housing. Finally, we contribute research and analysis of new models for delivery of public welfare, including public-private collaboration, digitalization, and new welfare-technological solutions..

In Health and Later Life, we generate knowledge with a view to qualifying the work with societal challenges related to health, sickness, and aging as well as to the scarcity of resources in the health sector.
Our research and analysis focuses on physical and mental health and wellbeing in the population. The focus of the department covers micro, meso, and macrolevels of health and includes both healthy later life and eldercare-related themes. Our scope ranges from individual perspectives – including those of ordinary people, patients, relatives, and health professionals – to a focus on organization, structure, interaction, prioritization, costs, and effectivization, both in the health sector generally and in specific areas.
We also focus on (in)equality in health, gender perspectives in health, weight and healthy living, rehabilitation, and prevention as well as on the organizations and institutions working to achieve better health in the population, e.g., hospitals, general practice, municipalities and regions, volunteer organizations, and eldercare. Psychiatric healthcare constitutes an area of knowledge across subjects in the department.