A more recent research focus is on youth digital everyday life, the involvement of young people in shaping digital policies, and social inequality related to digital risks such as sugardating, gambling, and radicalization. Additionally, she studies care and the organization of both paid and unpaid care work across the public sector, civil society, relatives, and citizens.
Methodologically, Ditte primarily employs qualitative approaches, including interviews, focus groups, ethnographic fieldwork, document analysis, and diary methods. She has a special interest in longitudinal designs and has published on the methodological and ethical aspects of process-oriented methods.
Her research spans contexts such as substance abuse treatment, recovery, anger management, rehabilitation, and cross-sectoral interventions. Currently, she leads two major projects: one on social investment, with a special issue published in Acta Sociologica (2025), and another on digital policies and youth digital life, in collaboration with the Digital Futures for Children center at the London School of Economics.
Ditte’s theoretical interests include time and temporality, emotional labor, feminist care ethics, stigma, social value, and the sociology of quantification. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences (2014) and has conducted research at institutions in Melbourne, Cambridge, UCLA, Aalborg University, and the University of Michigan. Her work has been recognized with awards, including the Sapere Aude Research Talent Prize (2016) and the European Sociological Association’s Best Article Award (2021).
