I am an associate professor at the department of sociology, Umeå University. For
over than 20 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, the impact of modernity and late modernity, the
development of the welfare state and the labour market, social class, the family
— among others. I have also taught/am teaching on the Human resource programme,
Social Science Teacher Programme, the Social Science Program, Master Programme
in Leadership and Organisation, Masterprogramme in Sociology and Master of
Science Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management, the Master
programme. I have extensive experience in supervising and examining bachelor and
master thesis. I have been the coordinator of the Human Resource Programme and
am currently coordinator of the Materprogramme in Leadership and Organisation.
From 2013 to 2023 I was the director of studies at the Department of Sociology,
Umeå University. A selection of my teaching can be found here.
My research interest is mainly focused towards material living condition,
poverty, social exclusion and the labour 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 involved in one research project on retirement in the public sector and on
the disability in 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.