Members of the Scientific Advisory Board

Herdis Steingrimsdottir

Associate Professor | Copenhagen Business School

Herdis Steingrimsdottir is a labor economist with a particular interest in demographics, gender, and family. Key articles include: Maternity Leave and Paternity Leave: Evidence on the Economic Impact of Legislative Changes in High Income Countries & How Does Daddy at Home Affect Marital Stability?

Emmanuele Pavolini

Professor | University of Milan

Prof. Emmanuele Pavolini is an economic sociologist, focusing on the distributional impact of various social policies, especially family policy, across social classes. Key articles include: Equalizing or not? Public childcare and women’s labour market participation (w. S. Scherer, S)

Dorota Szelewa

Assistant Professor | University College of Dublin

Dorota Szelewa is a social policy scholar with an interest in social policy transformation in post-communist countries, gender studies, reproductive rights, migration, theories of institutional evolution, public administration and public management, and the problems of Europeanization. Key publications include: Who cares? Changing patterns of childcare in Central and Eastern Europe

Tine Rostgaard

Professor | Roskilde University

Trine Rostgaard specializes in the analysis of care as both policy and practice, including childcare, leave, and eldercare, working with both qualitative and quantitative methods. Key articles include Fathers’ rights to paid parental leave in the Nordic countries: consequences for the gendered division of leave.

Trine Larsen

Professor | University of Warwick

Trine Larsen focuses on employment and industrial relations in a comparative perspective, covering topics such as social dialogue at both the EU and workplace levels, atypical employment and labor market segmentation, European policies on work-life balance, digital transformation, and practices related to public procurement.

Margarita Leon

Associate Professor | Universitat Autonoma Barcelona

Margarita Leon is a political scientist whose main areas of research are comparative public policy and welfare state reform. Key publications include: ‘Social Investment’ or Back to ‘Familism’: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Family and Care Policies in Italy and Spain