Meet the team

Trine Larsen 

Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator

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

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.

Beate Baldauf

Beate is a Senior Research Fellow at the IER. With a background in social sciences, she has been working in research for more than 30 years.

Beyond adult social care her research covers a wider portfolio, including platform work, working in later life and research on the health care labour market.

Peter Dickinson

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 sills.

Sangwoo Lee

Sangwoo is an Assistant Professor at the Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER), having joined in October 2023 following research roles at the UCL Institute of Education and the University of Cambridge. He has academic training in Economics and Higher Education from Grinnell College, Harvard University, and the University of Cambridge. Within the project, Sangwoo is responsible for WP1, focusing on the analysis of secondary data from cross-national surveys. His research centres on inequalities in higher education and the labour market, with a particular interest in job quality, wellbeing, and social mobility.

Stef Poole

Project Support

Stef will provide Research Project support for the project, including managing the social media channels for the project; sourcing and recruiting participants for research interviews; project data record-keeping and servicing project meetings.

Kim Bosmans

Main researcher for the Belgian team in the project. She is involved in all work packages of the project.

Kim is a postdoctoral researcher in labour sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2016.Shespecialisesin qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on the link between the quality of work and health and well-being, and the broader impact of employment quality on the life course, family and social lives of households. 

Bertil Rolandsson

Project leader for the Swedish team.

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.

Elin Siira

Elin is project member of the Swedish team. Involved in WP1, WP3, WP4, WP5.

Elin Siira is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the School of Health and Welfare at Halmstad University. She earned her PhD in 2022 with a dissertation on innovation in elder care. Her research is primarily conducted in collaboration with external stakeholders and is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. It focuses on the implementation and use ofnew technologiesin health and social care, with particular emphasis on the implications for organizations, professionals, and patients or service users,as well as on how these actors are involved in integrating technology into everyday practice. In recent years, she has primarily led and contributed to research projects concerning the implementation and application of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care.

Virginia Gunn

Virginia is engaged in WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4 and WP5

Ursula Holtgrewe

Ursula Holtgrewe is the national PI for the Austrian team in the project. She is involved in all work packages of the project.

Dr. habil. Ursula Holtgrewe is a senior researcher at ZSI’s unit „Work and Equal Opportunities“ at ZSI and headed that department from 2016 to 2022. Her main areas of expertise are service work and service organisation, social innovation, comparative institutionalism, and digitalisation. She has a diploma in sociology from Philipps-University Marburg (1986), a doctorate from Kassel University (1997), and a habilitation from Duisburg-Essen University (2003). She has taught at several universities in Germany and Austria and at Cornell University, NY, and been working in independent research institutes in Vienna since 2006, first at FORBA, then at ZSI.

Dominik Klaus

Dominik is involved in all work packages of the project.

Dr. Dominik Klaus, MSc, is a socio economist and sociologist of work. He has been working at the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) since July 2025. His research focuses on new forms of employment, social recognition, digitalisation, and the role of work in the socio-ecological transformation. Prior to joining ZSI, he held research positions at the Institute for Health Economics and Policy within the Department of Socioeconomics at WU Vienna, as well as at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna. As a university lecturer, he has taught a wide range of courses on topics including scientific literature research, socio-economic theories and methods, social policy, sociology of work, and sustainable

Maarten Bettens

Maarten is involved in work packages 1 and 2.

Maarten is a junior researcher at ZSI’s unit of Work and Equal Opportunities. Moreover, he is currently in his last year of the Occupational and Organisational Psychology Master’s degree at the Catholic University of Leuven.

He obtained a first professional bachelor’s degree in primary school education in 2022and a second academic bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2024. His work focuses on psychosocial risks assessment, change management and human resource practices.

Carin Håkansta

Carin is Leading the KI-part of the Swedish team. She is engaged in WP2, WP3, WP4 andWP5.

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

Her current research includes effects of non-standard employment and digitalisation on work, health and the work environment.

Pille Strauss

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

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.

Lisen Löwstedt

Lisen is a research assistant in the Swedish project team.

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.

Emma Brulin

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.