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Contact: jcqwels@gmail.com
I am a quantitative sociologist interested in the association between employment, work, social protection and mental and physical health.
My work mainly aims to identify the causal relationship between employment transitions and changes in workers’ physical and mental health including subjective self-measurements of health (e.g., self-reported health, subjective survival probabilities) and objective health measurements considering both workplace environments and social protection in different contexts. Most of my studies focus on the United Kingdom, Japan, Belgium and the United States and I am also particularly interested in the cross-national comparison of longitudinal data.
My work is at the crossroad between social sciences, public health, public policy, economics and epidemiology.
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT
10/2022 – present
Free University of Brussels (BE)
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences
Professor & FNRS Research Associate (tenure)
05/2021 – 09/2022
University College London (UK)
Faculty of Population Health Sciences
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (LHA)
Research Fellow
10/2016 – 04/2022
University of Cambridge (UK)
Department of Sociology
Affiliated Lecturer
10/2016 – 09/2020
Free University of Brussels (BE)
Faculty of Philosophie and social sciences
FNRS research fellow
10/2017 – 09/2018
University of Cambridge (UK)
Department of Sociology
Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow
04/2016 – 09/2016
University of Greenwich (UK)
Faculty of Education and Health
Research fellow
03/2013 – 03/2015
The World Bank Group (US)
Social Protection and Labor
Consultant
VISITING AND HONORARY POSITIONS
VISITING AND HONORARY POSITIONS
10/2022 – present
University College London (UK)
Faculty of Population Health Sciences
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (LHA)
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
12/2019 – 12/2019
University of Tokyo (JP)
Institute of Social Science (ISS)
Visiting Researcher
04/2019 – 06/2019
Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JP)
Foreign Researcher Invitation Program, FY2019
Visiting Researcher
10/2018 – 10/2018
Waseda University (JP)
Graduate School for Asia-Pacific Studies
Visiting Scholar
09/2014 – 06/2015
King’s College London (UK)
Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy
Visiting Research Associate
EDUCATION
01/2012 – 04/2016
PhD in sociology
Free University of Brussels (BE)
Funding: Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
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