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Klaus Petersen

Professor, Member of CPop Academic Coordination Committee
Department of Political Science and Public Management

Phone: +45 65502138
Email: klaus.petersen@sdu.dk
Webpage: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/persons/kpe

Professor Klaus Petersen is the director of Danish Centre for Welfare Studies. His main research interest is the development of the welfare state, which he has studied from a number of perspectives such as the development of specific policies, the politics of the welfare state, welfare concepts and semantics, war and welfare development. Trained as historian – he holds a PhD in history from University of Copenhagen (2001) – he has increasingly worked inter-disciplinary combining insights and methods from history, social science and literature studies. Beyond strict academic publications, he is also co-author of best-selling books on Danish Design furniture.

Within CPop Professor Petersen is part of CPop SAM unit and especially working with family policy, ageism and the project Life as 90+.