Klaus Petersen, Director of DaWS
Professor, PhD
Research Areas: Welfare state history/The Nordic welfare model/ History and social science
Special Research Focus: Social Democracy and the welfare state/ Difussion and transnational history of the welfare state/ Family Policy/ War and Welfare States/ Pensions and retirement policy/ Concepts and language of the welfare state.
Current projects: War and Social Reform/Danish Social Policy in the Shadow of Nazi-Germany/ The comparative history of the concept “welfare state”/NICE-welfare/"Velfærdshistorier fra kanten"
Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: Political sociology/ Comparative political economy/Comparative social policy/ Empirical social justice
Special Research Focus: Welfare and generations/ Intergenerational justice of public policies/ Intergenerational transfers by societies/ Politics of young and old/ Macro-social resilience and sustainability/ Post-communist transitions/ Demographic change and social policy/ Central and Eastern European welfare capitalism
Current projects: From the welfare state to the intergenerational society/ Early human capital policies/ Subject pool effects and prosociality/ Big Five personality traits and welfare attitudes
Jørn Henrik Petersen
Professor emeritus, dr. phil., lic.oecon, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: The concept of the welfare state/ The history and current challenges to the welfare state
Special Research Focus: The fundamental core values of the welfare state past and present/ Christianity and the welfare state
Current projects: "Stemmer i den velfærdspolitiske debat –mænd og meninger i dansk socialpolitik 1960-2014"/ Humanity in the welfare- and competition state/ The philanthropic discussion at the end of the 19th century and its current importance
Part time professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: Comparative welfare state and labour market analysis/ Political sociology/ Political economy
Special Research Focus: Political participation and alienation/ Voting/ Preferences/ Inequality/ Social exclusion/ Political socialisation/ Reform politics
Current projects: Technological change and the future of work/The cultural foundations of political preferences/ The psychological and political repercussions of labour market experiences/ Youth unemployment and political socialisation/Economic shocks and the use of antidepressants/ The socio-economic determinants of susceptibility to populist messages
Professor wsr, Dr. rer. pol., Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: Comparative welfare state research/ Political economy/ Qualitative and mixed methods
Special Research Focus: Politics of welfare state reform/ Globalization and the welfare state/ Policy diffusion/ Interest groups and social policy/ War and the welfare state/ Case study methods
Current projects: War and Welfare/ Interest groups and the comparative politics of social care/ Social policy by other means/ The politics of the German minimum wage reform
Associate professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: East-West migration/Immigration policies in host and home countries/ Comparative politics/ Transition to democracy and economic transformation of Central and Eastern European countries/ Romania
Associate professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: Comparative welfare state research/ Outcomes of social policy/ Inequality research
Special Research Focus: Labour market policy/ Subjective well-being and attitudes/ Social inclusion/ Healthcare disparities/ Quantitative methods
Current projects: Welfare State Transformations in the 21st Century: Effects on Social, Economic and Political Inequality in OECD Countries/ Universal healthcare? Linking out-of-pocket payments to income-related inequalities in unmet health needs/ Inequality, Redistribution and the Divergence of Public Opinion
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research areas: Global Social Policy
Associate Professor, PhD in History, Department of History
Research Areas: Immigration policy
Professor, Department for the Study of Culture
Research Areas: Literature/ Values and welfare
Special Research Focus: Contemporary literature/Welfare narratives/ 18th century literature/ Women’s literature/ Literature and medicine
Current projects: NICE-welfare/ "Velfærdshistorier fra kanten"/The history of Nordic Women’s literature/The human Turn/ Humanomics/Welfare narratives
Professor, PhD, Department for the Study of Culture
Research Areas: European fiction/ Stories of the lives of elders and aging/Stories of precarious and socially vulnerable lives
Special Research Focus: Literature about elders
Current projects: Alzheimer in fiction/Precarious and socially vulnerable lives in literature and in TV/Litterature and disease stories/Positive hermeneutics/ The utility value of fiction
Assistant Professor, Danish Institute for Advanced Studies
Research Areas: Literature and Social Change, Vagrancy
Visiting Professor, CPOP-SAMF and Department of Political Science
Research Areas : Demographic change and social policies, Intergenerational resource transfers and human capital investments, Age group relevant politics, policies and feedback processes across the lifecycle
Cecilie Bjerre
Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Political Science, Danish Aging Research Centre and Centre for Population Dynamics
Post-doctoral researcher , Department of Political Science, Danish Aging Research Centre and Centre for Population Dynamics
Research areas: Vaccination Policy
Post-doctoral researcher , Department of Political Science, Danish Aging Research Centre and Centre for Population Dynamics
Research areas: Aging
Post-doctoral researcher, CPOP-SAMF and Department of Political Science
Research areas: Intergenerational resource transfers and human capital investments , Intergenerational solidarity and equity, Intergenerational public policy conflict
Jacob Knage Rasmussen
PhD student, MA history, Department of History, Danish Welfare Museum, Svendborg
Project title: "Without a history. How previously placed orphanage children and prison inmates meet their past self" (1945-1980).
PhD student, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Project title: Urban segregation: spaces of meaningful encounter (working title)
PhD student, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Honorary Professors
Cathie Jo Martin
Honorary Doctor
Institution: Boston University
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Pauli Kettunen
Honorary Professor
Institution: University of Helsinki
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Stein Kuhnle
Honorary Professor
Institution:University of Bergen
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Associated Researcher
Thomas Paster
PhD
Research Areas: Comparative politics, welfare state politics, business and politics, comparative-historical methodology, historical sociology
Special Research Focus: Comparative analysis of the influence of business interest groups on political decisions in social policy, taxation, and financial regulation, Employee co-determination and corporate governance, Political regulation of profit shifting by multi-national enterprises (G20/OECD BEPS Project), Schumpeterian perspectives on business-politics relations
Current project: The Politics of Social Inequality: Why is Business in Some Countries More Hostile to Social Redistribution than in others?
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