Daniel Larsson – Daniel Larsson completed his doctoral thesis in sociology 2006. The basis of the thesis is the question of how poverty is related to exposure to crime and other welfare problems such as unemployment and health problems. His main interest in Sociology is poverty, criminology, social policy, self-employment and the labour market.

My name is Daniel Larsson and I am an associate professor and the director of studies at the department of sociology, Umeå university. During the last ten to fifteen years I have been teaching in various sociological subjects and fields. I have been teaching sociological and social psychological theory, statistical methods for social science, crime victims (on the police academy) and criminology theory. I also teach at student at Umeå School of education — and then general sociology such as the impact of modernity and late modernity, the development of the welfare state and the labour market and the family.

My research interest is mainly focused towards material living condition, poverty, social exclusion and the labor market. The last couple of years I have also focused on the self-employed, but also trust in the police. For the moment I am included in one research project on retirement in the public sector and on the disability on the labor market. See my research at ResearchGate.

The preferred choice of research method is statistical method. I use R statistics, mainly on a computer running Arch linux. I am using Emacs for about everything, from taking notes to writing code (mainly R-code). I also have a GitLab-site where I now and then publish R-codes that are handy and/or have been used on research.