Trine Pernille Larsen

Short presentation

Trine Pernille Larsen is  Associate Professor at the Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS), Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kent, UK, where she in 2008 defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled: Working Carers and the Welfare State- effects and Influences of European Work/Care Policies.

Trine Pernille Larsen is a member of the research group FAOS (Employment Relations Research Centre) and part of the research group Welfare, Inequality and Mobility at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. She is also part of the European COST Action Network: Gender and health impacts of policies extending working life in western countries.

Primary fields of research

EU-level labour market regulation;  labour market segmentation; shop stewards;work-life balance policies.

Current research

The ongoing research include among others:

• Studies of the interplay between EU and Danish labour market regulation, including analyses of coalitions, decision-making and implementation procesess involving a specific focus on EU's  work-life balance policies.
• Social partners handling of atypical employees within four sectors including the Nordic Council of Ministers -funded project Future of Worker  - a comparative project with research groups in the five Nordic countries.  
• Management-employee relations at company level, involving quantiative surveys with shop stewards regarding their working conditions and role (The shop steward survey anno 2010) TR-undersøgelsen 2010 as well as quantiative and qualitiative studies of Nordic multi-national cooperations' HR-policies and work-life balance polices and their effects on national industrial relations models.  
• The key features for regulating wage and working conditions including their implications for social partners' joint actions within the manufacturing sector in five European countries.

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

You can read all or part of the publications from the list below at www.faos.dk/english/publications

CV

Education
2008: PhD in Social Policy, University of Kent, UK.
2002: MA in Public Administration, Aalborg University, DK.
2000: MA in International Relations and European Studies, University of Kent, UK.

Employment
2012-: Associate Professor, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, DK.
2008-2012: Assistant Professor, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, DK.
2005-2008: Research Assistant, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, DK.
2002-2005: Research Assistant, School of Social Policy, Social Research and Sociology, University of Kent, UK.
2003- 2005: Part-time Teacher, School of Social Policy, Social Research and Sociology, University of Kent, UK.

Other
2010- 2011: Visiting Scholar at University of Sorbonne, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
2006-: Co-editor on the Danish peer-reviewed Journal: Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv
2004-2005: Director at Chauser Home Care, Canterbury, UK.