Researchers

Håkan Johansson (PI)

Professor at the School of Social Work, Lund University, and Principal Investigator (PI). His research interests cover comparative social policy, poverty, activation and Nordic and European social policy. Recently he has focused on civil society and has led several externally funded projects related to civil society in Sweden, political strategies among domestic CSOs, Europeanization of Swedish civil society organizations as well as contractualisation of Swedish civil society. At present he is most engaged with studies into civil society elites, in a Swedish and European context.

Niklas Altermark

Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Altermark's research concerns the welfare state and its relations to civil society. In his dissertation (2016), Altermark examined policies targeting people with intellectual disabilities and how these are responded to and resisted by the self-advocacy movement. His postdoc project examines the involvement of CSOs in preventative work of violent extremism.

Malin Arvidson

Senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, Lund University. Her research focuses on the changing roles and behavior of CSOs involved in the provision of welfare services. She has extensive experience from researching NGOs in international development (Bangladesh); English charities, as a research fellow at the Third Sector Research Centre (University of Birmingham, UK) and in Lund she researches Swedish CSOs engagement in social welfare.

Milka Ivanovska Hadjievska

Milka is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Her research focuses on how the state and capacity building bodies - through non-profit regulation, guidance and training - shape the internal governance of civil society organisations, affecting their leadership composition and representation.

Christofer Edling

Professor at the Department of Sociology, Lund University. Edling's focus span from methodological debates to analyses of network constraints and opportunities of organisations, firms, and individuals. His current research is oriented towards the intersection between sociological theory and method with a focus on social network analysis.

Kerstin Jacobsson

Professor at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. Jacobsson works in the field of political sociology. Her research focuses on Europeanization, soft forms of governance, European employment and labour market policy, and discourses on employability and activation, social movements and civil society. a European context.

Sara Kalm

Senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Kalm's research deals with international migration, international institutions and social movements. She has also studied the strategies of influence that social movements employ, and how relations of cooperation as well as competition and conflict arise when these actors appear at arenas outside of the traditional nation state.

Elżbieta Korolczuk

Researcher at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University. Her research interests include social movements, civil society and gender. She has conducted research on civil society, parental activism and social and legal implications of assisted reproduction in Poland, as well as conservative mobilization targeting gender equality and feminism.

Laura Landorff

Laura is a researcher at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Her research focuses on European institutions (especially on the European Parliament and the informal dimension of parliamentary politics), civil society and interest groups, as well as the development of a (new) political sociology of EU politics. Lately, she started working on EU diplomacy and the European External Action Service (EEAS). In the “Civil Society Elites?” research programme, she works in the thematic field ‘Elite interaction and integration’ together with Malin Arvidson and Anders Uhlin.

Jayeon Lindellee. Photo: Patrik Hekkala.

Jayeon Lee

Postdoctoral researcher at the School of Social Work, Lund University. Previously she studied large and well-established civil society organisations at the EU level and their representation strategies. In her postdoc project Jayeon focuses on comparative studies of civil society leaders and leadership in different European countries through survey studies.

Anna Meuwisse

Professor at the School of Social Work, Lund University. Her interests include the development of voluntary social work and changing conditions; patient and family associations in a local, national and international perspective, europeanization and elites in civil society.

Andrzej Pabisiak

Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University, Poland. His research revolves around civil society, memory studies, and cultural and political transformations in Central Europe.

Daniel Platek

Daniel Platek, postdoctoral fellow at the School of Social Work, Lund University. His research is about civil society understood as a collection of areas of collective actions taken by various social actors (strategic action fields). He draws on multifaceted tools of analysis – quantitative and qualitative – applied to a variety of data sources.

Cecilia Santilli

Postdoctoral researcher at the School of Social Work, Lund University. Cecilia works on the field of socio-political anthropology. Her interests include civil society, social policies and migration in a comparative perspective. She has also worked on media analysis and anti-austerity activism.

Roberto Scaramuzzino

Postdoctoral fellow at the School of Social Work, Lund University. His research is about the role of civil society organizations in integration and welfare systems, focusing on Europeanization and shifts in the welfare state.

Anders Sevelsted

Anders Sevelsted holds a post doc position at the School of Social Work at Lund University and is an Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He holds a Carlsberg Foundation post-doctoral scholarship related to the study of moral elites, and is part of the LONGLINKS project on the historical development of the Danish elite. In the Civil Society Elites project he will carry out a historically comparative project, comparing the development of Swedish civil society elites with the development of other national civil society elites. In general, Anders’ research focuses on the historical development of civil society elites, moral elites, social movements and voluntary organizations, as well as the role of ideas in the development of welfare states. Anders has strong research interests in moral sociology, sociology of religion, elite sociology, historical sociology, and the American pragmatist tradition. Methodologically, he works with interpretive methods, Social Network Analysis, and GIS.

Anders Uhlin

Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. His main research interests are in the fields of civil society, transnational activism, global governance, and democratization.