Hege Hofstad

About

My research centers around governance and co-creation between public authorities at local, regional and national level, organized civil society, various types of business actors, and knowledge institutions to develop and implement overarching and long-term goals such as public health, climate change and sustainability. I study how such processes play out at the local level - in local community development, community and spatial planning or in specific political decision-making processes. Leadership is a special interest.

Fields of study

Research groups

Welfare, Democracy and Governance

Research projects

Cities confronted by protests: Democratic governance for efficient and socially just climate transformation (DEMOCLIM)
DEMOCLIM explores new democratic governance methods in the design and implementation of effective and socially just climate policies that emerge in the face of climate protests in four Scandinavian cities; Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Governing the green shift in Oslo, Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Cape Town (GreenGov)
The GreenGov research project aims to create new and exciting knowledge about the challenges and dilemmas public leaders face in managing the green shift in Oslo, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Cape Town.

Scientific publications

Hofstad, Hege (2023). Well understood? A literature study defining and operationalising community social sustainability. Local Environment : the International Journal of Justice and Sustainability .

Vedeld, Trond; Hofstad, Hege (2022). How to Lead Collaborative Governance for Climate Transformation: A Guide for City Leaders and Decision-makers. 12 p. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy. Vol. 1.

Schou, Arild; Hofstad, Hege; Monkerud, Lars Chr. (2022). The role of organisational resources for integrating health surveillance data into municipal action in Norway. 14 p. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education .

Hofstad, Hege; Vedeld, Trond; Agger, Annika; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Tønnesen, Anders; Valencia, Sandra (2022). Cities as public agents: A typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation. Earth System Governance . Vol. 13.

Hofstad, Hege; Sørensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob; Vedeld, Trond (2022). Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co-creation from Copenhagen and Oslo. Environmental Policy and Governance . Vol. 32.

Hofstad, Hege; Sørensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob; Vedeld, Trond (2021). Leading co-creation for the green shift. 10 p. Public Money & Management .
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540...

Hofstad, Hege; Vedeld, Trond (2021). Exploring city climate leadership in theory and practice: responding to the polycentric challenge. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning .
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15239...

Vedeld, Trond; Hofstad, Hege; Hilde, Solli; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær (2021). Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo. Environmental Policy and Governance . Vol. February.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eet.19...

Hofstad, Hege; Millstein, Marianne; Tønnesen, Anders; Vedeld, Trond; Hansen, Karsten Bruun (2021). The role of goal-setting in urban climate governance. Earth System Governance . Vol. 7.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2764303

Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Hofstad, Hege (2020). Climate Leadership: Developing Innovative Strategic Tools to Improve the Partnership Mode of Planning. Innovation in public planning : Calculate communicate and innovate. 8. p. 131-150. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Research reports

Hofstad, Hege; Mouratidis, Konstantinos; Dahl, Christel; Sagen, Stine; Zeiner, Hilde Hatleskog (2022). Hva er lokal, sosial bærekraft? Erfaringer fra Stavanger. 28 p.
https://oda.oslomet.no/oda-xmlui/handle/11250/3016...

Hofstad, Hege (2021). Sosialt bærekraftige lokalsamfunn –en litteraturstudie. ISBN: 978-82-8309-345-2. 54 p.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2767557

Hofstad, Hege; Vedeld, Trond; Millstein, Marianne; Agger, Annika; Hansen, Karsten Bruun; Taylor, Anna; Tønnesen, Anders; Torfing, Jacob; Valencia, Sandra (2020). Urban climate governance and co-creation – In Cape Town, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Oslo. ISBN: 978-82-8309-309-4. 111 p.
https://blogg.hioa.no/greengov

Hofstad, Hege (2019). Byvekstavtaler i et flernivåperspektiv: helhetlig styringsverktøy med demokratiske utfordringer. 39 p.

Hofstad, Hege (2019). Kommunal planlegging som redskap for å redusere sosiale helseforskjeller - Oppsummering av erfaringer fra tidligere forskning og workshop med nøkkelaktører. 71 p.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1314

Heimburg, Dina Von; Hofstad, Hege (2019). Samskaping som samarbeids- og styringsform for kommunenes folkehelsearbeid - Hva vet vi? Hva er utfordrende? Og hvor går vi videre?. 53 p.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/1328

Hofstad, Hege (2018). Hva er viktige faktorer for lokal utøvelse av folkehelseoppdraget, og hvordan kan folkehelsemyndighetene støtte opp?,. 32 p.

Hofstad, Hege; Bergsli, Heidi (2017). Folkehelse og sosial bærekraft - en sammenligning og diskusjon av begrepsinnhold, målsettinger og praktiske tilnærminger. ISBN: 978-82-8309-217-2. 104 p.
http://www.hioa.no/Om-HiOA/Senter-for-velferds-og-...

Hanssen, Gro Sandkjær; Barkved, Line Johanne; Görlitz, Stefan; Hisdal, Hege; Hofstad, Hege; Interwies, Eduard; Jagers, Sverker C; Junker, Eivind; Lundqvist, Lennart J; Seifert, Isabel; Seva, Mikael (2017). Governing risk society: Institutional conditions for local adaptive capacity to climate change in Norway, Sweden and Germany. ISBN: 978-82-8309-199-1. 101 p.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/5927

Millstein, Marianne; Hofstad, Hege (2017). Fortetting og folkehelse: Hvilke folkehelsekonsekvenser har den kompakte byen. ISBN: 978-82-8309-164-9. 84 p.
http://www.hioa.no/Om-HiOA/Senter-for-velferds-og-...

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Dissemination

Hofstad, Hege (2023). «Inkluderende lokale boligmarkeder». Internt seminar. Fredensborg Bolig.

Hofstad, Hege (2023). "Medvirkning". Internt seminar. Drammen kommune.

Vedeld, Trond; Hofstad, Hege (2022). Democracy, co-creation and socially just climate transformation. Storbykonferansen 2022. NIBR-OsloMet.

Hofstad, Hege; Vedeld, Trond (2022). How to advance our knowledge about the role networks and intermediaries play in net-zero governance at the local level?. Bringing Political Science to Bear on Net-Zero: Identifying Opportunities, Challenges and Ways Forward at the Local Level. University of Birmingham.

Vedeld, Trond; Hofstad, Hege (2022). Klimapolitikk og styring i byer. Forskningsdagene. OsloMet.

Hofstad, Hege (2022). Samarbeid i plan og samfunnsutvikling - Hvordan gjøre bruk av ulike aktørers kunnskap i prosessen?. Plan og samfunnsutvikling i Nordland. Nordland fylkeskommune og statsforvalteren i Nordland.

Hofstad, Hege (2022). Well Understood? A Literature Study Defining and Operationalizing Community Social Sustainability. Storbykonferansen: Panel 2b Governance and co-creation: Dilemmas and tensions raised by socially just climate transformation. By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR.

Vedeld, Trond; Hofstad, Hege (2022). Leadership, co-creation and the green transition. OsloMet PhD Course in Trust-based governance and the co-creation of public value outcomes. OsloMet, Business School.

Vedeld, Trond; Hofstad, Hege (2022). Kreativ by: Nye former for klimaledelse i norske byer?. Arendalsuka: Workshop kreativ by. NIBR, OsloMet.

Vedeld, Trond; Hofstad, Hege (2022). Climate budgeting in city governance - potential for leadership and collaborative innovation, C40 Cities Climate Leadership network. C40 Cities Leadership, International City Webinar. C40 City Leadership Network https://www.c40.org/.
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Hege Hofstad

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