Wim Van Lancker is assistant professor in Social Work and Social Policy at the Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO) of the University of Leuven. He is also affiliated with the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His main research topics include family policy and its social distribution, poverty and social inequality, the design and effectiveness of social policy measures, the social investment state, labour market outcomes, and the impact and effectiveness of social work measures.
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Adeline Otto is a senior researcher at the Leuven University Centre for Sociological Research and a visiting professor at Hasselt University. She conducts comparative public policy analyses with a particular focus on social inequalities and teaches on social policies, social risks, and climate change. Her primary research is on the interaction between climate change and environmental and social policies. She is leading several projects investigating social inequalities, perceptions, and public attitudes in the transition to low-carbon societies.
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Katharina Zimmermann is assistant professor in Economic Sociology at the University of Hamburg. Her research fields are comparative welfare state research, welfare attitudes, the intersection of social and environmental protection, as well as EU social and employment policies. She is co-founder of the “sustainable welfare and Eco-Social Policies Network”
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Vincent Gengnagel is a postdoctoral research fellow at the “Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies” (ICES) Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany, as well as Young Academy Fellow of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, Germany. He is managing editor of the journal “Culture, Practice & Europeanization”. Working on a Political Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, he is interested in scientific autonomy, examining how disciplinary research strategies relate to societal challenges such as “Europeanization” under conditions of academic capitalism. Since 2020, he investigates the interplay between climate expertise, policy and public discourse.
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Maša Filipovič Hrast is an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana and Head of Center for Welfare Studies at the Faculty. Her research topics include development of welfare state and its responses to various societal challenges (such as ageing and more recently green transition), social exclusion and social inequalities, social, housing and care policies.
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Tatjana Rakar is an associate professor of sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Her fields of research encompass studies in social policy, welfare systems, family and care policies as well as third sector and social economy developments.
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Christian Möstl is a research associate and Ph.D. candidate at Europa-Universität Flensburg. As an environmental sociologist he examines conflicts in social-ecological transformations. Researching the foundations of anti-climate attitudes, his focus lies on right-wing populist perspectives on climate and environment policies.
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Ludwig Ipach is research associate and Ph.D. candidate at Univeristy of Hamburg.
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