Postdoc Fellows
Research Interests
- Social cohesion
- Construction and change of geopolitical identities
- Personality and identity development in response to intercultural contact
Research Interests
- Life Course Transitions and Social Inequality
- Family Dynamics and Expansion
- Education to Work Transitions
- Social Structure and Social Change
Research Interests
- Social Network Analysis
- Economic Sociology
Methods Expertise
- Natural Language Processing
- (Quantative) Network Analysis
- Econometrics
Research Interests
My research falls into the area of comparative welfare state research. More specifically, I am doing research on labor market policies. While my doctoral and pre-doctoral research was concerned with how and why labor market policies have become more "activating" or "employment-friendly", my post-doctoral research focuses on the effects of activation policies.
Recent activities
July 16, 2018: Herwig Immervoll's and my OECD paper on unemployment benefit eligibility criteria has been published: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/2bdfecca-en. [Update: The paper has now also been published in the IZA Discussion Paper Series: http://ftp.iza.org/dp11704.pdf]
July 14, 2018: Moira Nelson and I have released our comparative dataset on unemployment benefit conditionality. Users can access the data (more will also be added shortly) here.
May 7, 2018: The Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy published my paper on the increasing conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries since the early 1980s (see https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1472136).
Dec 13, 2017: I gave a talk on how to measure the conditionality of unemployment benefits across countries at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich.
Oct 17, 2017: Herwig Immervoll and I presented the OECD data collection project on unemployment benefit eligibility criteria at the EU Employment Committee Indicators Group meeting in Brussels.
Oct 13, 2017: I was awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Benefit Funds (Arbetslöshetskassornas Samorganisation) for my doctoral research. See here for more information (in Swedish).
Research Interests
- Evolutionary psychology of intergroup conflict and dynamics between minorities and majorities
- Management of common resources in heterogeneous societies
- Impact of religious belief and secular authority on social behaviour
Research Interests
My research is at the intersection of international relations, conflict studies, and political sociology. Eastern and southern Africa, especially the Democratic Republic of Congo, are my areas of geographic specialization. In the Congo, I have conducted research on humanitarian military intervention, armed groups, and local structures of rule. More recently, I became interested in the dynamics between collective contentious action and forms of internationalized authority. My teaching and research interests also include development cooperation, sovereign debt politics, and post-conflict statebuilding.