Jørgen Elm Larsen

Primary fields of research

• welfare state
• social policy
• labour market policy
• poverty
• marginalisation
• social exclusion
• gender and class
• housing mobility

Current research

Memberships of research groups

• Welfare, Inequality and Mobility, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen 
•  "Consequences of having the lowest social benefits as basis of maintenance". The project was financed by "Rådet for Socialt udsatte/Council for Marginalized People" (2008-2011).  The research group is still active and publish results from the project. The research group consists of rseachers from University of Copenhagen, Aalborg University, Roskilde University and CASA. Jørgen Elm Larsen is research director. The project focus on living conditions and different types of deprivation and how people suffering from poverty and poor living conditions cope with their situation.

Most important academic contributions

My most important academic contributions is within the field of research into poverty, marginalization and social exclusion. Since 1985 I have been researching within this field and this is reflected both in my Danish and English publications, for example in my Phd thesis "Fattigdom i velfærdsstaten" (Poverty in the welfare state), Samfindslitteartur 1989, and in the book "Fattigdom, afsavn og coping" (Poverty, deprivation and coping), Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2015. Within this field of research I have in many of my publications also had a special focus on lone mothers and marginalized men; the relations between gender, class, poverty and social exclusion.

Most important contributions of research outside academia

In 1990, my PhD thesis "Fattigdom i velfærdsstaten" (Poverty in the welfare state) was awarded the Cultural Prize of The Federation of Trade Unions in Denmark (LO). I have often been interviewed by the Medias and according to InfoMedia (a database on appearence in all types of medias) I have during the last 5 years appeared 149 times in all type of medias. During the last 5 years I have also given key note speeeches on especially poverty at conferences held by NGO's, Trade Unions and government appointed councils and expert committees.

CV

Born: 1954

Education:

1981: M.A. in Sociology
1989: Ph.D. in Sociology

Current position

2006: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Positions and other:

2009: Coordinator of the Excellence Programme on Welfare State and Welfare Institutions: Contemporary Challenges

2007: International Coordinator, Departmet of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

2006: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

2006: Head of Department, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

2000-: Coordinator of the sociological branch of the Graduate School for Integration,Production and Welfare

2000-2001: Member of the Minister of Equal Status Think-tank

1999-2000: Director of the Ph.D. Study Programme, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

1999-2002: Member of the Board (deputy member) of the Nordic Institute for Womens Studies and Gender Research

1996-2006: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

1994-1995: Associate Professor, the National Danish School of Social Work, Copenhagen

1993-1995: Associate Professor (research professor) at Centre for Social Integration and Differentiation, Copenhagen Business School

1992-1994: Member of the Danish Research and Development Unit, Community Programme to Foster Economic and Social Integration of the Least Privileged Groups (Poverty 3)

1991-1993: Principal and Research Fellow, Danish Equal Status Council

1990: Awarded the cultural prize of the Federation of Trade Unions in Denmark

1988-1991: Research Fellowship, Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

1982-1988: Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

1981-1983: Research Fellow, Ministry of Environment