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
Lasse Aaskoven
Assistant Professor, PhD, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: Comparative politics/ Public policy/ Historical political economy
Special Research Focus: Fiscal institutions/ Political parties/ Inequality/ Political and administrative elites
Current Projects: The political effects of church reforms/ Early elections and party finance/ the effects of historical land inequality/ Autocracies' use of fiscal rules/ The careers of female civil servants
Louise Munkholm
Assistant Professor, PhD, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: Sociology of law/ Access to justice and welfare/ Street-level bureaucracy
Special Research Focus: Development and implementation of law and policies in the welfare state/ Protection of migrant workers/ Access to health and well-being
Current Projects: JUST SOCIETY/ Exploring the policy dynamics of global antimicrobial resistance initiatives/ SONAR-Global
Ane Karoline Bak Foged
Assistant Professor, JUST SOCIETY, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: Comparative Politics/ Governance and state-building in lower-income countries/ African Studies/ Qualitative Methods
Special Research Focus: Taxation and Governance/ Accountability/ Fiscal State/ Case Studies/ Interpretevist Methods
Current Projects: The role of taxation in state-society relations/ Equal access to welfare rights (JUST SOCIETY)/ Fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa: Conceptualisation and empirical trends/ A tax by any other name: Conceptions and perceptions of taxation in West-Africa.
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 History
Research Areas: Family history/ Family policy/ Out-of-home placements of children/ Social work/ the history of the Danish welfare state
Current Research: Neoliberalism and Family Policy in the Nordics, ca. 1960 to 2000s. Part of the international research project "Neoliberalism in the Nordics", see more here
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
Project: POINS project
Research Areas: Party politics/ Party competition/ Government-opposition/ Parliaments/ Subjective insecurities/ COVID-19
Siff Lund Kjærgaard (Maternity Leave)
Administrative Coordinator, JUST SOCIETY, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Areas: Women's rights/ Arctic indigenous women's rights/ Greenlandic women's rights/ CEDAW/ Access to justice in cases of gender-based violence
Julie Holmegaard Milland (Maternity Cover)
Administrative Coordinator, JUST SOCIETY, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Frederik Pfeiffer
Research Assistant, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Research Focus: Intergenerational Solidarity and Equity; Intergenerational Public Policy Conflict; Age group relevant politics, policies and feedback processes across the lifecycle (ranging from education to pensions; Demographic change and social policy
Annemarie Borregaard
Research Assistant, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Project: Inquiry into the treatment of groups with physical and mental disabilities from 1933 to 1980. The inquiry is mandated by the Danish government.
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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