Please consider to submit your abstract. Deadline for abstract submission is 31 July 2025. Second international symposium on digitalisation, artificial intelligence, work and employment digit-research.org/events/secon...

📣 Call for papers: Second international symposium on ‘Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, Work and Employment’ 🔗 Find out more and download the call for papers: digit-research.org/news_article...

The organising committee of the symposium is made up of Professor Fang Lee Cooke; Professor @jackieo99.bsky.social; Professor @runehalvorsen.bsky.social; Dr @steverolf.bsky.social; Dr Wei Wei; and Professor Timothy Bartram.

Wow! The MSCA Doctoral Network "Future leaders in ageing and digitalizing societies", has been invited to prepare a grant agreement with the European Research Executive Agency ! I am looking forward to welcome new PhD students to work with us at @oslomet.bsky.social.

Freedom of speech cannot be taken for granted these days with the threats for the extreme right. At Bebel platz nazis burned books in 1933. Thank you to Humboldt University of Berlin for inviting me to talk about youth transitions to employment.

So disturbing. Yet another step in the direction of an authoritarian regime in the US.

The regression analysis published by Lighthouse contradicts Norwegian self-image: "our findings point to stark class injustice within Norwegian courts. Lower-income defendants receive substantially longer sentences than wealthier defendants". www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...

Our international MA program in social policy is now open for applications and has no tuition fee for students from the EU. www.oslomet.no/en/study/sam...

Flott intervju med samfunnsøkonom og feminist Charlotte Koren, tidligere kollega på NOVA. kjonnsforskning.no/nb/2025/01/c...

Shades of McCarthyism. Employees told to tell on their colleagues. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Our new hero: bbc.com/news/videos/...

Read about CEDIC associate fellow Biao He's work uni.oslomet.no/cedic/2025/0...

In December, Digit Co-Director @jackieo99.bsky.social, Digit Research Fellow Rachel Verdin, and Co-Director of the Digit research School @runehalvorsen.bsky.social led a two-day workshop at @SussexUBusiness discussing digital ecosystems and the transformation of work and welfare.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

The final trip of this year is heading to Sussex to work with the brilliant Rachel Verdin and Jacqueline O'Reilly discussing digital ecosystems in work and welfare in comparative perspectives at digit-research.org. Happy to see the research from the euroship-research.eu project coming together!

Lavmålet til FrP kjenner visst ingen grenser www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/fy...

Among his many achievements Korpi is also former president of RC19 Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy of the International Sociological Association. He also invented the "Korpi rule" for how we still organize the paper presentations at the RC19 annual conferences. www.su.se/swedish-inst...

Honoured to act as opponent for Anna Broka's PhD disputation on youth welfare regimes with @runehalvorsen.bsky.social today at University of Tallinn. Congratulations, Anna, for completing a great piece and a hard, but rewarding phase in your life!

Congratulations to Anna Broka with her PhD thesis on youth welfare regimes. A pleasure to evaluate it together with @katikuitto.bsky.social for Tallin University.

Enda et tilbakeslag for internasjonalisering av høyere utdanning fra norske myndigheter. www.khrono.no/joakim-er-en...

Gratulerer til @rogersoraa.bsky.social! khttps://www.khrono.no/29-unge-og-lovende-forskere-far-ekstra-privilegier/921583?fbclid=IwY2xjawGtHm1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdPpi3o9d3vx1wWOk3Wdi2wpuO2kcyU7xqsZzG1KCVGgX_8AYWD6Xygt1A_aem_r56KoxwS2VWWxCUwlBRY_Q

An interview about Global Sociology and the transformations of sociology since the beginning of the century. globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/glo...

Anbefales! Dette er tildels sterk kost om adopsjon og oppvekst i Norge.

A film from the EUROSHIP project I coordinated youtu.be/EhQOZudwZBc?...

Just back from two department seminars. Nice people and great autumn colours. 🍂

Here is a recent publication I have contributed to: Lussi; Bickenbach; Halvorsen; Sabariego (2024). Trends over the past 15 years in long-term care in Switzerland: a comparison with Germany, Italy, Norway, and the United Kingdom. BMC Geriatrics. Vol. 24. bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

In this film I explain in brief why Norway has no minimum wage (in Norwegian). film.oslomet.no/v.ihtml/play...

Biao He and I have contributed a chapter to this volume, now available from OUP: academic.oup.com/book/57961

PhD students in social policy from Finland, Germany, Norway and Italy recently met at the University of Bergen for the annual NordicESPAnet workshop.

We have completed yet another successful ESPANET Nordic workshop for PhD students. Thank you to prof Thomas Lorentzen at the University of Bergen for hosting! Every year the Nordic branch of ESPAne) organizes an early stage researcher workshop. sosiaalipoliittinenyhdistys.fi/nordic-espanet

Thank you to all the 110 participants in the RC19 annual conference on social policy 2024. It was a great success! This year our main topic was sustainable welfare in a global perspective. @isa_sociology ISA (rc19-oslo2024.no)