Research needs more than one way of being funded and organised. I work on how to diversify the research system.
I am a researcher with a PhD in systems change and mission-oriented innovation. I maintain a continuously updated mapping of the global metascience ecosystem, and write primers and a newsletter on the institutions and funding mechanisms that could make research systems more diverse, in Denmark and beyond.
Selected work
More than 200 organisations and people across research funding, institutional design, evaluation and open science, updated continuously.
What Is Metascience?An orientation to the field: where it comes from, its main strands, the institutions now doing it, and the critiques.
Funding MechanismsHow the design of research money shapes what science happens: the project grant, the alternatives, and the evidence for each.
Enterprise FoundationsHow Denmark's foundation-owned companies fund long-horizon research, and what their governance reveals about institutional diversity.
Work with me
I want to work with foundations, universities and research agencies that are ready to diversify how they fund and organise research: understanding what their funding does today, designing new formats and organisations, building in learning, and developing the field together.
Publications
- 2026
- Is metascience being co-opted?
- Metascience reaches the White House
- Debatten om metascience giver et alt for snævert billede. Der er behov for at brede samtalen ud
- Regeringen har talt om forskningsambitioner – men har ikke turde ændre systemet
- 2025
- Building the Infrastructure for Decentralized Science. A Conversation with Ella McCarthy-Page
- Speculative Technologies and Unbundling the University. A Conversation with Ben Reinhardt
- Shaping Denmark's Research & Innovation Ecosystem. A Conversation with Thomas Trøst Hansen
- 2024
- De udfordrer diskussionen om den slagne idékraft: Mangler fokus på initiativretten i dansk forskning
- Mission-Oriented Innovation in Prevention and Population-Based Healthcare. A Conversation with Peter Bentsen
- Metascience: Behov for udvikling af økosystemet for forskning og teknologiudvikling
- 2022
- Artistic Practice and Systems Change: A Mission-oriented Sector of Art