Team
JUST SOCIETY is a collaborative project, developed by a team of scholars from Political Science and Law at 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
Ane Karoline Bak
Project researcher & lecturer
Ane is Assistant Professor at DaWS at the Department of Political Science and Public Management. She holds an MA and PhD in Political Science from Aarhus University and an MA in Africa and International Development from University of Edinburgh. In her thesis, she studies the role of taxation in societal actors’ accountability demands in Senegal. Her research focusses the role of taxation in redistribution, welfare state development and accountable governance. She applies a comparative and qualitative approach with strong attention to grounding observations and analysis in the local relevant social, political and economic contexts.
Link to Ane's research profile
Christian Prener
Project researcher & lecturer
Christian is a postdoctoral legal scholar at the Department of Law with focus on constitutional law, public international law, citizenship and fundamental human rights. His PhD dissertation concerns the trend of citizenship revocation among Western states as a national security response to foreign fighters. Christian is a former research fellow at University of California, Los Angeles and prior to his doctoral studies, Christian worked as a documentary filmmaker with particular focus on politics and corruption in Brazil.
Link to Christian's research profile
Louise Munkholm
Project researcher & lecturer
Louise is Assistant Professor at DaWS at the Department of Political Science and Public Management and has a background in Public Administration with specialization in EU-studies and Global Studies. In 2017, she received her PhD from Roskilde University based on socio-legal research on labour law enforcement in Chinese firms in Italy. Louise’s research interests include access to justice with focus on the role of public institutions in delivering welfare to citizens. In her work, she combines perspectives from law, political science and sociology to study how regulatory responses can be designed and implemented in ways that meet societal needs.
Link to Louise's research portal
Siff Lund Kjærgaard
Administrative Coordinator
Siff holds a BA in Sociology and Cultural Analysis from SDU and an MA in Human Rights from University of Oslo with a specialization in indigenous women’s access to justice. She has worked in the United Kingdom, Denmark and before joining JUST SOCIETY, she lived in Greenland working for the Constitutional Committee as a Specialized Secretary in human rights
Advisory Board
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
Christian Friis Bach
Adjunct Professor
Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark