Inaugural Lecture Professor Christine Ipsen, DTU Engineering Technology

In the inaugural lecture, Christine will look at implementing digitalization of work, where digital tools allow for new ways of working, hybrid-remote work, and distance management and outline the trends and challenges in the area of hybrid-remote work and share highlights from the work conducted at DTU.

The lecture is followed by a reception from 16.00.

THE LECTURE WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE ONLINE LIVE VIA LIVE-STREAM at the following link:

Live-stream of Inaugural Lecture by Professor Christine Ipsen

Invitation as pdf

Summary
The challenges Danish and international businesses face become even more evident. One example is implementing new technologies in organizations, where digital tools allow for new ways of working, hybrid-remote work, and distance management.

Discussions in industry, practice and research showcase an increased interest in new knowledge about how to manage the current challenges and implement new ways of working sustainably i.e. to ensure both performance and well-being. The lecture will look at trends and challenges in the area of hybrid-remote work and share highlights from the work conducted at DTU.

About Professor Christine Ipsen
Professor Christine Ipsen, PhD, is head of the Section for Strategy and Leadership Development at DTU Engineering Technology (DTU). She has an affiliation with University of Massachusetts- Lowell, USA and is currently a visiting senior fellow at Nottingham Trent University, UK. During her PhD at DTU, she studied management of knowledge work and how to redesign the organizational design to prevent work-related stress.

She has led a number of research projects in collaboration with industry focusing on sustainable work and management, i.e., how to safeguard both employee wellbeing and performance and how companies can implement preventive changes. Her research has been published in a number of books and papers. Since 2015, her research has focused on distance management, hybrid-remote work and, in particular, the role of new digital technologies.

In March 2020, she initiated an international survey of experiences of working from home. Her current research projects focus on implementing hybrid work in office work and the effect on well-being and performance but also the new role of distance managers’ and how organizations can support them. In particular, how to design organizations that have the capability to ensure both organizational performance and employee well-being in tandem.

In essence Christine's vision is "To develop new knowledge that reframes how we design and manage organizations that enable people to work better, and that works better for people, and systematically and sustainably help organizations to facilitate and implement the success of change initiatives."