Pomaa 2027

Call for papers

The Public Management and Society Centre at the School of Public Administration is pleased to announce the 5th POMAA International Research Seminar, to be held in Gothenburg on May 12 and 13, 2027.
The purpose of the seminar is to highlight current themes in public sector politics and organizing, provoke dialogue, and facilitate a critical assessment of current trends. The seminar aims to illuminate current issues from a variety of empirical, methodological, and theoretical perspectives.

The seminar welcomes contributions on all aspects of public sector politics, organizing, management, accounting, and auditing in relation to current challenges and trends. Different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches are welcome. The ambition is to attract scholars from a multitude of disciplines.

Potential themes for contributions include, but are not limited to:

• Control
• Governance
• Professions
• Value creation
• Relationships between different stakeholder groups
• Accounting and accountability
• Co-production and co-delivery of public services
• Public organizing and society
• Sustainability
• Anthropocene materiality and public organizing
• Digitalization
• Crises and disasters
   

Keynote speakers
 

Lisa Marie Borrelli

Lisa Marie Borrelli is Professor of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, and at the Faculty of Economics, University of Neuchâtel. Her research lies at the POMAA 2026 | 2 intersection of migration studies, socio-legal analysis, social policy, and organizational ethnography, with a particular focus on street-level bureaucracies, welfare state transformations, and practices of bordering and policing. In her keynote, she will address the role of relational decision-making within public administration, focusing on tensions and power dynamics between the various actors involved.
 

Ragnar E. Löfstedt
 

Ragnar E. Löfstedt is Professor of Risk Management and Director of the King’s Centre for Risk Management. His research addresses risk communication and risk management in areas including renewable energy, pharmaceuticals, food scares, health and safety, and, more recently, the European mining sector.
In his keynote, he will focus on risk communication and the European mining sector, addressing what needs to be done going forward.
 

Practical information
 

The main workshop starts at lunchtime on May 12 and ends with lunch on May 13. It will take place at the School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg. A PhD workshop will take place on the morning of May 12, before the start of the main workshop. PhD students participating in the PhD workshop are encouraged to take part in the main POMAA seminar as well. There is no participation fee, but registration is required. Lunch is included. To indicate your interest in presenting at the seminar, please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words to pomaa@spa.gu.se. This also applies to PhD students wishing to present in the PhD workshop.

Specific deadlines for abstract submissions and full paper submissions will be announced shortly.
 

For questions and further information about the seminar, please contact the Organizing Committee: pomaa@spa.gu.se
 

POMAA Scientific and Organizing Committee
 

Assistant Professor Johanna Andersson
Andreas Asplén Lundstedt
Associate Professor Emma Ek Österberg
Assistant Professor Eren Firtin
Assistant Professor Vanja Carlsson
PhD Patrik Renberg
Professor Gustaf Kastberg Weichselberger
Professor Patrik Zapata