Merete Watt Boolsen

Short presentation

Evaluation takes place like never before. In education (e.g. grades), in health (e.g. health programs), in the social sector (e.g. client plans), and in the workplace (e.g. leader-evaluation).
To-day it is difficult to avoid evaluations within the public sector. The perspective varies – either because you are dependent upon evaluations or because you are going to do the evaluation yourself – or perhaps students, patients or clients are going to be evaluated.
Controversial strategies are found with the field of evaluation – for instance strategies dealing with control, change or development. No matter what – we cannot disregard evaluations – in our roles as leaders, as co-workers/colleagues, consultants or citizens.
My research deals with the planning, monitoring, development and implementation of evaluations.

Primary fields of research

• Social science research methods and analysis
• Developmental evaluation
• monitoring
• NVivo
• Educational research in Greenland
• Dynamics between responsibility and rules within the health-sector, the educational sector, and the social sector

Teaching

• Social science research methods and analysis
• Qualitative analysis with NVivo
• Evaluation
• Genetic research
• Deviant behavior
• Minorities

CV

Employment

• since 2017 associated with the university of Greenland as associate professor
• since 2000 Associate professor in Sociology and Social Science Methodology at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

• 1998-2000 Methodological consultant and programme evaluator with the Danish Police Force (the Danish Crime Prevention Council).

• 1995-1998 Associate professor at The Danish School of Education

• 1992-1995 Head of Office in the municipality of Roskilde taking care of institutions for children and young people.

• 1985-1992 Research assistant at the Danish National Centre for Social Research.   

• 1980-1985 Social welfare research consultant in the municipality ofCopenhagen. During this employment one obligation was to carry out research about children. The research project was institutionalised under the institute of Governmental Research.

• 1978-1980 Teacher at a Teachers’ training college.

• 1973-1978 Head of project and project coordinator for the ministry of Education (area: science of science). Also Research coordinator in a special Drug department that was institutionalised in the Ministry of Health (area: drug use and abuse).

• 1971-1973 Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs (area: education).