Meet the team

Trine Larsen 

Warwick Institute for Employment Research

Trine Pernille Larsen joined IER as a Professor in October 2023. Before joining IER, Trine was an Associate Professor at the Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS), Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. Trine has worked and taught at different Universities (University of Kent, UK; Sorbonne University, UAE; University of Salahaddin, Iraq; University of Copenhagen and CBS, Denmark). She is currently a board member on different international and Danish academic networks (WPLMS, VELNET, Danish ECSA association).

Philip Taylor

Warwick Institute for Employment Research

Philip has a background in Psychology and joined IER in September 2023. Previously he has held roles at the University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield, Policy Studies Institute, Open University, Monash University and University of Melbourne, amongst others.

Philip's research primarily focuses on the ageing of the workforce. Within this broad theme, he is particularly interested in developments in public policies targeting longer working lives, older workers' orientations to work and retirement and employer attitudes and practices towards older workers. His research takes place in an international context.

Emma Brulin

Karolinska Institutet, Unit of Occupational Medicine

Senior lecturer and Associate Professor (Docent) in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Registered Nurse. Her research focuses on physical and psychosocial exposures in the work environment (specifically in the healthcare sector), symptom development of stress-related illnesses, and return to work after sick leave for burnout.

Bertil Rolandsson

Project leader for the Swedish team.

Department for Sociology and Work science University of Gothenburg

Research topics address how institutionalized values become organizing principles, or how governance, legitimacy or trust problems arise and are handled in connection with various digitalization initiatives. He participates and has participated in research projects that deal with various forms of digitalization and its consequences for working life in general and professional groups in particular. These studies range from, among other things, the software industry and the media industry to new forms of digital monitoring and AI in healthcare.

Carin Håkansta

Lead of the KI-part of the Swedish team. Engaged in WP2, WP3, WP4 and WP5.

Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Unit of Occupational Medicine

Carin has a PhD in Human Work Science, Associate Professor in Work Science.

Current research: effects of non-standard employment and digitalisation on work, health and the work environment.

Beate Baldauf

Warwick Institute for Employment Research

Beate Baldauf is a Senior Research Fellow at the Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER), University of Warwick. With a background in social sciences, she has been working in research for more than 30 years and is experienced in both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Since joining the IER in 2000, she has conducted research on the adult social care labour market as part of a range of UK and EU funded projects, and more recently research on occupational safety and health in platform work as part of a three- year project supported by CHANSE and UKRI. Beyond social care and AI/AM her research covers a wider portfolio, including working in later life, research on the health care labour market and higher and vocational education and training.

Peter Dickinson

Warwick Institute for Employment Research

Peter Dickinson joined IER as a Senior Research Fellow in 2017. Prior to this Peter worked as a researcher in a number of for profit and not for profit organisations working with a range of supra national, national, subregional, local government and third sector organisations.

Peter currently specialises in local labour market skills and their intersection with productivity and inclusive growth. Peter has been a local labour market and skills researcher his whole career and has directed, managed and delivered over 100 research projects over the learning and skills agenda: schools, FE, HE, alternative provision, pupils and young people with SEND, apprenticeships, green skills, digital skills, NEET, financial and pastoral support, employer co-funding, employability and transferable skills.

Sangwoo Lee

Warwick Institute for Employment Research

Sangwoo has a background in both Economics and Higher Education and has been trained at Grinnell College (US), Harvard University (US), and the University of Cambridge (UK). He joined IER in October 2023. Prior to this, he worked as a researcher at the UCL Institute of Education and the University of Cambridge.

Sangwoo's current research primarily focuses on inequalities in higher education and the labour market, as well as job quality in the 21st century. Within this broad theme, he is particularly interested in a) how we can improve students' academic achievement and help them develop the skills they need in the labour market, regardless of their socioeconomic background, and b) the significance of job quality in shaping individual and societal outcomes,

Lisen Löwstedt

Lisen is a research assistant in the Swedish project team.

Karolinska Institutet, Unit of Occupational Medicine

Lisen holds an MSc in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Primarily works on issues related to algorithmic management, digitalisation, and their effects on occupational safety, health, and well-being. Additional research interests include labour immigration and precarious work.

Pille Strauss

Pille is part of the team working on Work Packages 2, 3, 4 and 5

Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Unit of Occupational Medicine

She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Unit of Occupational Medicine. PhD in Work Science, background in occupational health psychology. Research interests: digital work environment, algorithmic management and use of AI in the context of work, job quality, work environment, and work-related wellbeing.