JUST SOCIETY is a collaborative project, developed by a team of scholars from Political Science and Law at the University of Southern Denmark. Together, our academic backgrounds in political science, sociology and law form a broad and strong interdisciplinary foundation that imbue JUST SOCIETY research and teaching.
Marianne S. Ulriksen
Project Lead
Marianne is Associate Professor at the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies (DaWS), at the Department of Political Science and Public Management. She has a deep knowledge of welfare studies in the Global South and has published extensively on themes such as social protection development, social and redistributive justice, comparative politics, taxation and resource mobilisation, and poverty and inequality. She is affiliated to the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA), University of Johannesburg, as a Senior Research Fellow.
Link to Marianne's research profile
Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni
Project researcher & lecturer
Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni is Associate Professor in Labour Law at the Department of Law. His main teaching areas are International, European and Comparative Labour Law, as well as Industrial Relations and Human Rights at Workplace. He previously researched on anti-discrimination law, positive sanctions in labour law and the intersection between labour market regulation and youth unemployment. Recently his research focues more deeply on collective labour law, fundamental labour rights in the global supply chains, the impact of AI and climate change on the foundations of labour law, and wage setting in Europe.
Link to Vincenzo's research profile
Rasmus Schjødt
Project researcher & lecturer
Rasmus is a lecturer at DaWS at the Department of Political Science and Public Management. He holds an MA in Political Science from Aarhus University. His PhD dissertation examined the wellbeing implications of active labour market policies for vulnerable young people in Denmark. He is interested in access to social protection for vulnerable groups and has carried out research on access to social protection for people with disabilities in Ethiopia, Uganda, India and Brazil as well as on social accountability in social protection programmes.
Link to Rasmus' LinkedIn profile
Siff Lund Kjærgaard
Administrative Coordinator, E-coordinator and Research Assistant
Siff holds a master in Human Rights from the interdisciplinary collaboration between University of Oslo and Norwegian Centre of Human Rights. She wrote her specialization upon indigenous Greenlandic women’s access to justice. She has worked at NGO's in the United Kingdom and Denmark, and before joining the Just Society project, she lived in Greenland, where she firstly worked as a student assistant for the Justice Department and later for the Constitutional Committee as a Specialized Secretary in human rights.
Link to Siff's research portal
Steering committee
Frederik Waage
Professor of Constitutional Law
Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark
Link to Frederik's research profile
Klaus Petersen
Professor, Head of Centre
Welfare Studies and Public Policy, University of Southern Denmark
Link to Klaus' research profile
Hanne Søndergaard Birkmose
Professor, Head of Department
Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark
Link to Hanne's research profile
Signe Pihl-Thingvad
Professor (wsr), Head of Department
Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark
Link to Signe's research profile
Network
Archil Abashidze
Associate Professor, Head of MPA program
School of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University
Link to Achil's research profile
Anika Seemann
Senior Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, München
Elmarie Fourie
Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Public Law, Director of the Centre for International and Comparative Labour and Social Security Law (CICLASS)
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Link to Elmarie's research profile
Juliano Zaiden Benvindo
Associate Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, Head of the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies
University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil
Link to Juliano's research profile
Klavs Kinnerup Hede
Director of International Relations, Ph.D.
The Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman
Kristine Kjærsgaard
Associate Professor
Department of History, University of Southern Denmark
Link to Kristine's research profile
Lauren Graham
Professor, Deputy Director of Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA)
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Link to Lauren's research profile
Pablo Holmes Chaves
Associate Professor
University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil
Link to Pablo's research profile
Sony Pellissery
Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusion Policy (CSSEIP)
National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
Last Updated 03.02.2023