My research interests are found in the intersection between EU politics and public administration. Primarily, I am interested in agency governance at EU and national levels. Recently, my focus has been on issues related to ethics, integrity and the application of fundamental rights. At the EU-level, I have devoted the most attention to Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency). In the Swedish context, I study ethics management strategies in collaboration with a group of colleagues.
I hold a PhD from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, and I am an Associate Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy.
Teaching
In recent years I have, among other things, taught courses in EU politics, human rights in Europe, political analysis and social science for students aiming to become teachers. I also supervise dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Commissions
Programme coordinator for European studies.
My research groups
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Governance, Ethics, and Corruption (GEC) Studying the bright side AND the dark side of public governance. The issues that we study broadly concern governance, challenges to sustainable democratic…
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Swedish Network for European Studies (SNES/LNU) The Swedish Network for European Studies (SNES) at Linnaeus University (LNU) focuses on three main areas: Autocartization and European democracies, EU…
My ongoing research projects
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Andersson, S., Ekelund, H. (2022). Promoting Ethics Management Strategies in the Public Sector : Rules, Values, and Inclusion in Sweden. Administration & Society. 54 (6). 1089-1116.
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Ekelund, H. (2014). The Establishment of FRONTEX: A New Institutionalist Approach. Journal of European Integration. 36 (2). 99-116.
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Ekelund, H. (2012). Making Sense of the ‘Agency Programme’ in post-Lisbon Europe: Mapping European Agencies. Central European Journal of Public Policy. 6 (1). 26-49.
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Article in journal (Other academic)
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Ekelund, H., Jormfeldt, J. (2022). Ekonomi – ett Utopia för blivande samhällskunskapslärare. HumaNetten. (49). 87-102.
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Ekelund, H. (2021). Vem litar egentligen på Folkhälsomyndigheten? : En explorativ studie och diskussion kring tillit och delegation i pandemitider. Surveyjournalen. 8 (1). 15-26.
Status: Published
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Andersson, S., Ekelund, H. (2024). The Bureaucratic Society : Public Governance and Its Challenges. Problems in Paradise? : Changes and Challenges to Swedish Democracy. Leeds, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 49-66.
- Ekelund, H. (2019). Europe 2020, EU agencies and political entrepreneurship. Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth : Political Entrepreneurship for a Prosperous Europe. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing. 109-126.
- Ekelund, H. (2019). 'Normative Power Frontex?' Assessing agency cooperation with third countries. The External Dimension of EU Agencies and Bodies : Law and Policy. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing. 79-99.
- Ekelund, H. (2015). Institutionalist Approaches to Agency Establishment. The European Defence Agency : Arming Europe. Abingdon, Routledge. 11-26.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Ekelund, H. (2010). The agencification of Europe: explaining the establishment of European Community agencies. Doctoral Thesis. The University of Nottingham (Nottingham ETheses).
Report (Refereed)
- Ekelund, H. (2017). Normative Power FRONTEX? Assessing Agency Cooperation with Third Countries. Oslo, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. 22.
Article, book review (Other academic)
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Ekelund, H. (2016). Book review: The European public servant – a shared administrative identity?. Journal of Contemporary European Research. 12 (4). 931-933.
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Ekelund, H. (2014). The Agency Phenomenon in the European Union: Emergence, Institutionalisation and Everyday Decision-making by Madalina Busuioc , Martin Groenleer and Jarle Trondal (eds).. Political Studies Review. 12 (2). 320-321.
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Ekelund, H. (2012). Book review : Contemporary European Politics: A Comparative Introduction by José M. Magone. Political Studies Review. John Wiley & Sons. 10 (1). 152-153.
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Ekelund, H. (2011). Book review : Executive Power of the European Union: Law, Practices, and the Living Constitution by Deirdre Curtin. Political Studies Review. John Wiley & Sons. 9 (1). 119-120.
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Ekelund, H. (2010). Book Review: Science in Democracy – expertise, institutions, and representation by Mark B. Brown. Political Studies Review. 8 (3). 377-378.
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Ekelund, H. (2009). Book review: Stephen Castles & Mark J. Miller (2009) The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (Fourth Edition). Journal of Contemporary European Research. 5 (2). 326-327.
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Conference paper (Refereed)
- Andersson, S., Ekelund, H. (2021). Ethics management in good governance settings: the case of Sweden. .
- Andersson, S., Ekelund, H. (2020). Promoting and coordinating ethics management in the public sector in good governance settings : The case of Sweden. .
- Ekelund, H. (2019). Agency governance in a multiple principals setting : evolving working practices and norm diffusion of EU justice and home affairs agencies. Presented at SNES (Swedish Network of European Studies) Spring Conference 2019 ‘Democracy at the crossroads: European changes and challenges’, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, 11-12 April 2019..
- Ekelund, H. (2017). Normative power FRONTEX? : Assessing agency cooperation with third countries. The University of Luxembourg Robert Schuman Institute of European affairs & the Academic Research Network on Agencification of EU Executive Governance (TARN). "External dimension of EU agencies and bodies". Luxembourg. 27-28 June 2017..