Previous projects

(2013-2018...ish) Working-time flexibility and work-life balance (project website)

I have been awarded the ESRC Future Leaders Award 2012/3 for the project "Working time flexibility and work-life balance across Europe and the role of contexts: connecting the individual- , company and the country-level". There is mixed evidence on whether the use of flexi-time is beneficial for a better work-life balance, because flexibility can lead to spill-overs from work to home and blur the boundaries between them. I expect that different family, company and national contexts will shape the way flexi-time is used by individuals as well as its outcomes. I will match data from three levels; individual, company and national levels across 25 European countries to explore this question further.

This project started on the 16th of December 2013 and ended n the 19th of November 2017.

For more about the project please visit http://www.wafproject.org

Click here for a summary of the project.

Publications from this project include:

Related publications from my Ph.D. include:

Related to this project, and continuing from my post-doctoral project I am currently investigating the influence of welfare state institutions on the work-family conflict of individuals. Many studies examine this issue but come to very different empirical results - many say social policies increase work-family conflict of individuals rather than decreasing it, and especially for women. I am trying to explain why this is the case, through examining the mediating factors that connect social policies and work-family conflict.

Related publications include:


(2010 till 2018 ish??) Labour market institutions and subjective employment insecurity

Another research project that I am currently involved in, which is an extension of my post-doctoral research project (Funded by the European Commission) is to examine the various influence of welfare state institutions on subjective employment insecurity of European individuals. My current focus is on how different institutional structures impact different groups of the labour market in different ways, as well as the moderating influence of institutions in the outcomes of subjective insecurity on subjective well-being and political attitudes/support for the welfare state.

Related publications include:


(2015 to 2018ish) Norface Project: Our Children's Europe (project website)

This is an international project that examine attitudes to welfare and to the future development of welfare states in six European countries . People’s current aspirations, ideas and assumptions will be important drivers of change and persistence in European welfare states, and of the extent to which conflict and solidarity surround change. This project uses innovative methods (deliberative democratic forums, a qualitative cross-national focus group survey) to develop understanding of people’s aspirations for the Europe their children will inhabit.

The project will contribute to theoretical work on the main cleavages and solidarities driving social policy in different European welfare states and to more practical consideration of the parameters of acceptable policy change. It will supply new findings relevant to the politics and sociology of welfare and provide data for reanalysis and as a base-line in future studies.

The project is headed by Peter Taylor-Gooby (PI) and consists of welfare attitude experts across Europe.

Jorgen Goul Andersen and Christian Albrekt Larsen (Alborg), Maša Filipovič and Hrast Tatjana Rakar (Ljubljana), Bjorn Hvinden and Mi Ah Schoyen (Nova), Steffen Mau and Jan-Ocko Heuer (Humbolt), Wim van Oorschot (Leuven), Benjamin Leruth (Kent) along with myself.

This project if funded by the NORFACE Welfare Futures Grant .

The project will run from the 1st of February 2015 till August 2018.

Project publications include

Related publications include


Norwegian project on part-time work (project website)

I am participating in a project funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project title is "“Part-time careers in Norway – the end of normalization? Women’s working time adaptation in a longitudinal perspective”. PI: Heidi Nicolaisen at Fafo

This project will run from November 2014 – Nov 2017




Other projects also include

2009.4 ~ 2011.11 : Tensions between work and life

Part of the 6th framework network of Excellence RECwowe, funded by the European Commission

2009.2 ~ 2010.10 : Methodology for monitoring and analysis of the Flexicurity policies in the Member States

Project for the European Commission

2009.6 : (PI) A survey of country employment and social protection policy responses to the global economic crisis

Project for the ILO

2008.5 ~ 2009.4 : Defining and testing flexicurity indicators in Europe: the Dutch case

Project for the Ministry of Social Affairs in the Netherlands

2007.3 ~ 2008.12 : (PI) Privatization and working conditions

Project for the ETUI

2007.1 ~ 2008.7 : Decent work in Europe: the Netherlands

Project for the ILO

2007.10 ~ 2008.1 : (PI) Spanish Labour Market Reform

Project for the Korean Chamber of Commerce

2007.8 ~ 2008.3 : (PI) Research Fellowship Award

Social Science Research Centre Berlin

2006.11 ~ 2007.5 : Flexicurity pathways

Report by the European Expert Group on Flexicurity – report drafted for the European Commission

2005.11 ~ 2006.12 : Flexibility and Security over the life-course

Project for the European Foundation

2005.11~2006.12 : Working time flexibility of European companies

Project for the European Foundation