International Advisory Board
Giuliano Bonoli
Professeur in charge of the chair of social policies at the IDHEAP, Lausanne, Switzerland
Giuliano Bonoli's main areas of expertise: international comparison of social policies (structures, effectiveness, costs); reform of retirement systems; activation policies; reconciling work and family life; new social risks and problems; the political dimension of sociaI policies.
IDHEAP – Institut De Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique
IDHEAP, Chair of social policies
Harriet Bradley
Professor at Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Harriet Bradley is a specialist in the study of women's employment. Her broader research interests are the sociology of gender, feminism, industrial relations and the sociology of work, along with a general interest in social divisions and inequalities. A developing interest is in issues around women, health and maternity.
University of Bristol, department of sociology
Bernard Ebbinghaus
Professor of Macrosociology, University of Mannheim, Deutschland
Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Professor of Macrosociology, Director of the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) and CDSS Academic Director at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim. He studied sociology at University of Mannheim, the New School, and the University of Geneva, and he received his Ph.D. from European University Institute in Florence (1993) and his Habilitation from University of Cologne (2003). He previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne.
Research interests include European labour relations and organized interests, European social policy and welfare-state regimes, comparative and historical methods.
Recent publications: (with Jelle Visser), Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945, London: Macmillan, 2000; editor (with Philip Manow), Comparing Welfare Capitalism, London: Routledge, 2001; Early Retirement in Europe, Japan, and the USA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pbk. 2008.
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
Bengt Furåker
Professor at Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Bengt Furåker is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. He has also held positions at other Swedish universities and been a Visiting Fellow at Yale University. His research is mainly focused on labor market working life issues and the relationship between the labor market and the welfare state. Furåker has been a member of the Committee of Experts at the European Foundation, Dublin, he has been involved in the activities of several Nordic research-funding bodies and he is presently editor of the Acta Sociologica, the journal of the Nordic Sociological Association.
His research is mainly focused on labour market issues, employment and unemployment, labour market policy, employment and working conditions, labour mobility, work-related attitudes, the public sector, the relationship between the labour market and the welfare state, and social stratification.
Among his more recent publications, Sociological Perspectives on Labor Markets (2005) and Flexibility and Stability in Working Life (co-edited 2007) can be mentioned.
University of Gothenburg, department of sociology
Torild Hammer
Senior Researcher at the NOVA – Norwegian Social Research, Oslo, Norway
Torild Hammer's research is mainly focused on employment, working life and unemployment, marginalization, alcohol and other drugs, social policy, European and Youth studies.
Dr. Torild Hammer has also been coordinating two Research projects for the European Commission funded by the Fourth and Fifth Framework programmes about Youth unemployment and social exclusion in Europe.
NOVA - Norwegian Social Reasearch
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Margaret Maruani
Professor in Gender studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
Margaret Maruani is a sociologist and Research Director at the CNRS in France. She is the director of the review "Travail, Genre et Sociétés" and of the European research group "Labour market and Gender in Europe" ("Mage"). Her research interests include labour unions, work, and employment.
University of Geneva, department of Gender studies
Chiara Saraceno
Research Professorship in Demographic Development, Social Change, and Social Capital at the WZB – Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany
Chiara Saraceno's research interest include social policies and poverty; comparative family patterns and policies; demographic change; gender inequalities, gender mainstreaming and conciliating issue.
From 1990 until 2008, after having been previously at the University of Trento, she was professor of sociology at the University of Torino, Italy, where she taught courses in sociology of family, sociology of gender and comparative social policies. She also chaired the PhD program in Comparative Social Research and the Interdisciplinary center on gender and women’s studies (CIRSDe) at that university. She has been for many year a member of the Italian Poverty Commission, chairing it during 1999-2001. She has represented Italy in the Social Protection Committee at the EU and in the Working party on social policy at the OECD. She belongs to the network of excellence EQUALSOC and is a member of the MULTILINKS research group – both of which funded by the EU. She is the coordinator of an interdisciplinary group which prepares periodic reports on poverty and inequality in Italy.
WZB; Demographic Development, Social Change, and Social Capital
Günther Schmid
Director of the Department of Labour Market Policy and Employment of the WZB – Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany
Günther Schmid's research focus include: political economy; labour market policy and employment; evaluation of political programmes and institutions; political theory and comparative analysis of political systems; philosophy of science.
WZB; Department of Labour Market Policy and Employment
Elżbieta Tarkowska
Professor of sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and at the Academy of Special Pedagogy.
Her main field of research is poverty in post-communist world, sociology and anthropology of time, life style studies and Durkheimian School in sociology. She published, edited or co-edited 24 books and almost 250 articles and chapters in collective volumes, mostly in Polish, but also in English, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Romanian and Finnish. She is the author or editor of following books in the field of poverty: Zrozumieć biednego. O dawnej i obecnej biedzie w Polsce [Understanding a Poor. Past and Present Poverty in Poland], 2000 (co-author and editor); Przeciw biedzie. Programy, pomysły, inicjatywy [Against Poverty. Programs, Ideas, Initiatives], 2002 (editor); Młodzież z byłych PGR-ów. Raport z badań [Young People from the Former State Farms], 2002 (co-author with Katarzyna Korzeniewska); Lata tłuste, lata chude...Spojrzenia na biedę w społecznościach lokalnych [Lean Years, Years of Plenty... Looking at Poverty in Local Communities], 2002 (co-author and co-editor with Katarzyna Korzeniewska); Biedni o sobie i swoim życiu [The Poor on Themselves and Their Lives], 2003 (co-author and co-editor with Wielisława Warzywoda-Kruszyńska and Kazimiera Wódz); Ubóstwo i wykluczenie społeczne. Badania. Metody. Wyniki [Poverty and Social Exclusion. Research - Methods – Results], 2005 (co-author and co-editor with Stanisława Golinowska and Irena Topińska), Ubóstwo i wykluczenie społeczne młodzieży [Poverty and social exclusion of the youth], 2007 (editor). Tarkowska’s studies on poverty concern past and present poverty, poverty in former state farm settlements, life styles of poor families, child poverty, feminization of poverty, qualitative methodology in studying poverty.
Elżbieta Tarkowska is also editor-in chief of “Kultura i Społeczeństwo” [Culture and Society], a quarterly of the Committee of Sociology.