Malene Lue Kessing

Senior Researcher

Key Expertise:

  • Civic and user involvement,
  • Mental health,
  • Vulnerable persons,
  • Inequality and social heritage,
  • Digitalization and welfare technology,
  • Professionals,
  • Gender and identity,
  • Organization,
  • Patient,
  • Sickness
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Selected research projects

Project
1. MAR 2022 — 1. JAN 2025
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Health Care

Clients of the future

Project
1. JAN 2025 — 1. FEB 2027
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • The Social Sector
  • Health Care

Du er ikke alene

Project
1. FEB 2025 — 30. NOV 2026
  • The Social Sector

Progressionsmåling på det specialiserede socialomr

Project
1. DEC 2025 — 30. APR 2027
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Management and implementation
  • Health Care

Evaluering af lettilgængelige kommunale tilbud

Publications

Scientific articles

Scientific article
2026

Gryesten, J., Kessing, M. L., Moltu, C., Korsbek, L., Bernt Poulsen, S., & Arnfred, S. (2026). Shared decision-making in ongoing psychotherapy: Negotiating frames, preferences and meaning. Psychotheraphy Research, 1-5.

Scientific article
11. APR 2025
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Kessing, M. L. (2025). Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture. The Sociological Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261251331348

Scientific article
10. APR 2025
  • The Social Sector

Kessing, M. L., & Kirkegaard, S. (2025). Ethnography of User Involvement: Navigating a Blurred Research Position. Qualitative Health Research, Article 10497323251328538. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323251328538

Scientific article
12. MAR 2025
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Kessing, M. L. (2025). The role of non-human actors and the body in peer support groups for children of parents with mental illness. Childhood, 32(2), 194-210. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682251326489

Scientific article
JAN 2025
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Health Care

Kessing, M. L., & Petersen, A. (2025). Empathetic knowledge: conceptualising modes of knowing within families marked by illness. Health Sociology Review, 34(1), 108-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2024.2432871

Scientific article
DEC 2024
  • The Social Sector

Kessing, M. L., & Kirkegaard, S. (2024). Peer arbejde: en kompliceret balanceøvelse. Social Kritik, 173(December), 70-77. https://socialkritik.dk/2020/173-2024-3/

Scientific article
2023

Järvinen, M., & Kessing, M. L. (2023). Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers. Current Sociology, 71(3), 414–431. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921211048532

Scientific article
APR 2022
  • Management and implementation
  • Health Care

Kessing, M. L., & Mik-Meyer, N. (2022). Negotiating mental illness across the lay-professional divide: Role play in peer work consultations. Sociology of Health and Illness, 44(4-5), 815-829. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13456

Scientific article
2022
  • Labour Market
  • Health Care

Kessing, M. L. (2022). Doing peer work in mental health services: Unpacking different enactments of lived experiences. Health Sociology Review, 31(1), 32-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1865183

Scientific article
1. DEC 2021
  • Labour Market
  • Management and implementation
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Daycare, school and education

Andersen, D., Kessing, M. L., & Østergaard, J. (2021). ‘We Have Equal Opportunities – in Theory’: Lay Perceptions of Privilege, Meritocracy and Inequality in Denmark. Sociology, 55(6), 1117–1134. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038521999203

Scientific article
MAY 2020
  • Health Care

Kessing, M. L. (2020). “It is a different world in here”: collective identification and shared experiential knowledge between psychiatric inpatients. Sociology of Health and Illness, 42(4), 724-738. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13053

Scientific article
10. DEC 2018
  • Management and implementation
  • The Social Sector

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

Scientific article
3. JAN 2017

Kessing, M. L., & Ravn, S. (2017). 'It feels as if time has come to a standstill': Institutionalised everyday lives among youth with a mental illness. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2016.1273523

Reports

Report
29. APR 2026
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Health Care

Kessing, M. L., Schmidt, A., & Tønnesen, S. (2026). Chatten som fortrolig: En kvalitativ undersøgelse af unges brug af ChatGPT til social og følelsesmæssig støtte. VIVE - Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd. VIVE Rapport

Report
31. MAR 2026
  • Labour Market
  • Health Care

Kessing, M. L., Bastegaard, A. K., Larsen, B. Ø., & Olsen, M. G. (2026). Psykiske belastningsreaktioner og indsatser i Grønlands Politi: En opfølgning. VIVE - Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd. VIVE Rapport

Report
24. MAR 2023
  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Health Care

Rayce, S. B., & Kessing, M. L. (2023). Børn af forældre med udfordringer: En litteraturgennemgang af social og emotionel udvikling blandt børn af forældre med alvorlige udfordringer i deres liv. VIVE - Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd. VIVE Rapport

Report
20. DEC 2016
  • The Social Sector

Kohl, K. S., Kessing, M. L., Fynbo, L., Andersen, D., Schmidt, A., Jensen, M. N., & Munkholm, M. C. (2016). Stofmisbrugsområdet i et brugerperspektiv. SFI - Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Velfærd. SFI-Rapport No. 16:32

Mini report
11. NOV 2016
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Kessing, M. L., & Scavenius Sonne-Schmidt, C. (2016, Nov 11). Funktionel Familie Terapi (FFT): Midtvejsevaluering af implementeringen. SFI Notat

Books and book contributions

Book contribution
OCT 2016
  • The Social Sector
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Østergaard, J., Bom, L. H., Poulsen, M. H., & Kessing, M. L. (2016). Rusmiddelbrug. In M. Arffmann, M. Laub Petersen, P. Lundgaard Bak, K. K. Svendsen, & C. Obel (Eds.), Ungeprofilundersøgelsen 2015 (pp. 26-45). Komiteen for Sundhedsoplysning. https://www.skolesundhed.dk/Files/CMS/Ungeprofilundersøgelsen 2015.pdf

Theses

PhD thesis
2022

Kessing, M. L. (2022). Illness experiences as a professional tool: An investigation of peer workers in mental health services. Det samfundsvidenskabelige fakultet, Københavns Universitet.

Conference contributions and working papers

Working paper
2023

Kessing, M. L. (2023). Levede erfaringer som en professionel kompetence: Peer medarbejdere i psykiatrien .

Debate contribution

Areas

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