Anders strives to adopt an interdisciplinary focus on questions pertaining to the organisation of the creation, production, distribution, and consumption of cultural and creative goods and services, as well as their concurrent valuation.

His research objects and foci are diverse. They range from publicly funded individual artists and non-profit organisations to SMEs, cultural entrepreneurs, and commercial firms. Furthermore, the scope is global, encompassing Austria, Northern Ireland, his home country, Norway, neighbouring Nordic countries, and Spain.

Anders' research interests include cultural entrepreneurship, festivals, and events; platform economics; cultural leadership and management; cultural and creative organisations and the ecosystems within which they are embedded; cultural policy; and the music industry.

He is an affiliated member of the University of Agder’s (Norway) Crowdfunding Research Centre and the Volda University College (Norway) research group on cultural policy and artistic labour. Prior to becoming a full-time academic, he was the coordinator of Knowledge Works, a Norwegian Ministry of Culture-sponsored research centre on the cultural and creative industries.

Anders is open to expression of interest from prospective PhD. candidates sharing his research interests.

Anders is at Queen's University engaged in teaching that aligns with his research interests and key aspects of the MA in Arts Management as they relate to business models, funding and financing of projects and ventures, strategy, management, and cultural entrepreneurship alongside research methods and development of dissertation proposals.

He currently convenes and lectures in research methods (SCA7006 - Research in Arts and Cultural Industries Management); business planning and modelling in the cultural industries (SCA7004 - Essential Skills in Arts and Cultural Industries Management); and an interdisciplinary module introducing arts management and cultural project work and planning to undergraduates (Principles of Business in Arts, Cultural and Creative Industries).

His career as a lecturer began at the University of Inland Norway, where he, between 2012 and 2020, managed a teaching portfolio that encompassed project management, the music industries, festival production, alternative finance, entrepreneurship, and grants application. The teaching was delivered at the undergraduate level (BA in cultural project management).

Prior to joining Queen's University Belfast, he worked as a visiting lecturer teaching research methods at Volda University College (MA in Media Production) from 2021 to 2023 and arts entrepreneurship courses for the BA and MA in Arts at the University of Agder (2022).

Anders has been a guest lecturer at the University of Barcelona since 2016 for their MA and Postgraduate Diploma programmes in cultural management and Erasmus Mundus Glocal Master Program.

Anders'doctoral thesis shed light on which factors motivate or inhibit the use of crowdfunding by artists and cultural entrepreneurs, as well as on how crowdfunding is used as a business model in the cultural and creative industries. The thesis, with the title Take a chance on me: Cultural crowdfunding as a necessary, complementary, or substitutive business model in the Nordic countries and in Spain can be downloaded here