Nana Wesley Hansen

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

CV

Education

2004: MA in Political Science, University of Copenhagen.
2013: PhD in Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Employment

2017-current: Associate Professor, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

2013-2017: Assistant Professor, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
2010-2013: PhD Fellow, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
2008-2010: Research Assistant, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
2007-2008: Consultant, The Danish Association of Junior Hospital Doctors (Yngre Læger).
2005-2007: Lecturer, Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS).
2005-2006: Intern/consultant, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO).

Primary fields of research

Public sector collective bargaining; management-employee cooperation in the public sector; skilled labour migration; outsourcing/offshoring.

Current research

Nana Wesley Hansen is associate professor at the Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) at the Department of Sociology. Her primary research area is collective bargaining and cooperation in the public sector. In 2015, she published a book on collective cooperation at workplace level in the Danish municipalities during times of modernization and rationalization.

Furthermore, she collaborates with Associate Professor Mikkel Mailand on analyzing the collective bargaining system at sector level. Together they have conducted and published several comparative studies on the development in the public sector after the financial crisis with a special focus on the school and hospital areas.

Concurrently, Nana Wesley Hansen also conducts analysis on the recruitment of highly skilled foreign workers to Denmark. She studies the policy developments and recruitment practices at national and local levels. Recently, she has engaged in research on the relationship between offshoring of jobs and mobility of highly skilled employees in multinational companies within medico and the ICT business.

Nana Wesley Hansen is part of the research group on Knowledge, Organization and Policy at the Department of Sociology.