Rate My Professor Trui Steen

Trui Steen's research focuses on innovations in governance and democracy, co-creation and coproduction of public services by public professionals and citizens, collaborative innovation, knowledge coproduction, public values, and local governance. She has supervised PhD projects on topics such as climate adaptation through gardening, digital co-creation, and coproduction during the COVID-19 pandemic, and led funded initiatives including FWO projects on co-creation networks and Belspo Brain-be projects on public sector innovation. Her highly cited publications include 'Co-production and co-creation' (2018, 793 citations), 'The dark side of co-creation and co-production: seven evils' (2018, 331 citations), 'Why people co-produce: Analysing citizens’ perceptions on co-planning engagement in health care services' (2014, 326 citations), 'Why engage in co-production of public services? Mixing theory and empirical evidence' (2016, 280 citations), and 'Coproduction during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: will it last?' (2020, 188 citations). Awards include the NIG PhD Supervisor of the Year (2014), HICSS 2024 Best Paper Award, EGOV 2019 Best Paper Award, VIDI 2010 Vernieuwingsimpuls grant, and Yvan Berghmans Award (2002). She chairs the IIAS study group on coproduction of public services and serves on boards such as the Federale Raad voor Wetenschapsbeleid.