Staff

Steering committee:

Chair of steering committee: Mikael Lönnborg

Director of studies: Liudmila Voronova

Members: Malin Gawell (business studies), Johanna Mannergren Selimovic (political science), Thomas Marmefelt (economics), Dominika V. Polanska (social work), Kristina Riegert (journalism), Steven Saxonberg (sociology).

PhD student representatives: Alexandra Allard (economics), Luisa Bandeira Coelho (social work), Sofia Beskow (sociology), Victoria Colesnic (journalism), Mounia El hajjari Borg (business studies), Alexander Hjelm (political science).

Secretary: Lina Lorentz External link.

Researchers, doctoral students and other employees:

Saeid Abbasian

Saeid Abbasian

Associate Professor

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

I am senior lecturer in Tourism Studies, coordinator of Tourism subject, coordinator of Master's programme in Tourism Studies, and I am representative in the board of school.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD273

Alexandra Allard

Alexandra Allard

Doctoral Student

My research areas are environmental and resource economics, with a focus on maritime resources and sectors.

Social Sciences

ME354

Ester Appelgren

Ester Appelgren

Associate Professor

Head of School

Senior Lecturer

Associate professor in Journalism and PhD in Media Technology.

Social Sciences

ME436

Nicholas Aylott

Nicholas Aylott

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Ranjula Bali

Ranjula Bali

Professor

Professor of Economics

Social Sciences

ME312

Luisa Bandeira Coelho

Luisa Bandeira Coelho

Doctoral Student

My research is about Deaf experiences in the Health and well-being field and civil society.

Social Sciences

ME004

Mats Bergman

Mats Bergman

Professor

Competition policy, public procurement, competitive provision of elderly care & other welfare services, pharmaceutical pricing, regulation & deregulation, retailing and the city

Social Sciences

ME313

Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist

Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist

Senior Lecturer

Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist is an associate professor in Sociology and a lecturer in Social work. Her research mainly concerns neurodiversity, autism and ADHD

Social Sciences

ME111

Sofia Beskow

Sofia Beskow

Doctoral Student

Doctoral Student in Sociology. Research focus: Consequences of policiary measures against radical nationalist social movements

Social Sciences

ME229B

Simon Birnbaum

Simon Birnbaum

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Associate professor and senior lecturer in political science. Main research areas: political theory, welfare state research. Director of PPE program: www.sh.se/ppe.

Social Sciences

ME615

Fredrika Björklund

Fredrika Björklund

Professor

My research is about surveillance including the relationship between trust and surveillance. I also teach political science at the School of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences

ME618

Jonas Björnerstedt

Jonas Björnerstedt

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor of Economics

Social Sciences

ME322

Karin Borevi

Karin Borevi

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Erik Borg

Erik Borg

Professor

Professor of Business Administration. A researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences

Social Sciences

ME447

Marcus Box

Marcus Box

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Victoria Colesnic

Victoria Colesnic

Doctoral Student

My thesis explores journalists' work-related emotions, how journalists navigate their feelings alongside professional norms and the effect of emotional labor on their well-being.

Social Sciences

ME353

Peter Dobers

Peter Dobers

PhD

Programme Coordinator

Professor

Prof in Business Studies (sustainable development & co-creation). Program director for 2-year masters in LeadSustain. Rectors Advisor Co-Creation. Dean of Faculty Board 2016-2022.

Social Sciences

ME443

Joakim Ekman

Joakim Ekman

Professor

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

MA789

Linda Ekström

Linda Ekström

Senior Lecturer

I am a political scientist with an interest in issues concearning teaching and learning in civics education

Social Sciences

ME614

Mounia El hajjari Borg

Mounia El hajjari Borg

Doctoral Student

Corporate sustainability- Sustainable management- Social enterprises- Innovation and entrepreneurship- Writing differently

Social Sciences

ME516

Magdalena Elmersjö

Magdalena Elmersjö

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Associate Professor in Social Work, Senior Lecturer in Social Work

Social Sciences

ME108

Katarina Elofsson

Katarina Elofsson

Professor

Katarina Elofsson's research is about international, national and regional environmental policy for water quality management, wildlife, biodiversity, and climate policy.

Social Sciences

ME352

Johan Eriksson

Johan Eriksson

Professor

International relations, specifically the politics of technology and expertise, space policy, and cybersecurity. I lead the project "Russia in Space".

Social Sciences

ME621

Hugo Faber

Hugo Faber

Doctoral Student

PhD student. My research concerns energy politics and the phasing out of nuclear and fossil energy.

Social Sciences

ME616

Paul Fuehrer

Paul Fuehrer

PhD

Head of Department

Senior Lecturer

Malin Gawell

Malin Gawell

Associate Professor

My research interest focuses on how people respond to challenges in different ways. Social entrepreneurship, social enterprises, and social innovation are examples of what I study.

Social Sciences

ME418

Ali Hajighasemi

Ali Hajighasemi

Professor

Professor of social policy

Social Sciences

ME122F

Eva Hansson

Eva Hansson

I am a Senior Lecturer in political science and responsible for Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Science.

Social Sciences

ME620

Alexander Hjelm

Alexander Hjelm

Doctoral Student

I am theoretically oriented researcher who is intrigued by the potential implications that technology have on our understanding and practice of democracy.

Social Sciences

ME512

Keyvan Hosseini

Keyvan Hosseini

Affiliated senior lecturer

Social Sciences

Anders Ivarsson Westerberg

Anders Ivarsson Westerberg

Associate Professor

Head of Department

Professor

Bengt Jacobsson

Bengt Jacobsson

Professor

Karl Magnus Johansson

Karl Magnus Johansson

Affiliated Professor

I am Affiliate Professor of Political Science. One of my areas of research is government communication. Web: https://www.polexmedia.com/external link

Social Sciences

Ann-Cathrine Jungar

Ann-Cathrine Jungar

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Senior lecturer in political science. Research on populist radical right parties in Eurioe

Social Sciences

ME622

Eva Karlberg

Eva Karlberg

Senior Lecturer

Research: organization, social movements, civil society. Participate in the Horizon-project "Co-Creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe": ccindle.org

Social Sciences

ME218

Lisa Kings

Lisa Kings

Associate Professor

Subject Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

Elzbieta Korolczuk

Elzbieta Korolczuk

PhD

Researcher

Elżbieta Korolczuk, Associate professor in sociology, her research involves: social movements, civil society, politics of reproduction and anti-gender campaigns.

Historical and Contemporary Studies

Sylwia Koziel

Sylwia Koziel

Senior Lecturer

Agnes Käll

Agnes Käll

Doctoral Student

I am a PhD student in business studies. My research concerns the regulatory development of anti-money laundering supervision in Sweden, Denmark, and Estonia from the 2000s onwards.

Social Sciences

ME551

Ann-Sofie Köping

Ann-Sofie Köping

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Sr Lecturer, Business Administration. Program Coordinator Cultural Management Program. Teaching in the Master's Program Leadership for Sustainable Development.

Social Sciences

ME429B

Tommy Larsson Segerlind

Tommy Larsson Segerlind

Associate Professor

Programme Coordinator

Senior Lecturer

I am associate professor in Business Administration and program director för the bachelor program Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Markets (EIM). I am appointed as Merited teacher

Social Sciences

ME429E

Lina Lorentz

Lina Lorentz

Research Officer

Mikael Lönnborg

Mikael Lönnborg

Professor

Ghani Majidi

Ghani Majidi

Senior Lecturer

I am lecturing macro and microeconomics. In addition, I teach welfare state politics. My main interest is political economy, public economics and political philosophy

Social Sciences

Milda Malling

Milda Malling

Doctoral Student

My research interest lies on formal and informal, visible and invisible interactions and relationships between journalists and their political sources.

Social Sciences

Johanna Mannergren Selimovic

Johanna Mannergren Selimovic

Associate Professor

Research Coordinator

I am Associate Professor with a research focus on peace processes. I am a Senior Lecturer at Political Science. I am Research Coordinator at CBEES.

Social Sciences

ME616

Thomas Marmefelt

Thomas Marmefelt

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Evolutionary economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics and financial institutions, innovations, cognition and institutions, monetary history, alternative monetary arrangements

Social Sciences

ME316

Joanna Mellquist

Joanna Mellquist

Doctoral Student

I work as sociologist at the Department of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, and carry out research focusing on the role of unelected experts in civil society

Social Sciences

ME223

Tony Mickelsson Blomqvist

Tony Mickelsson Blomqvist

Senior Lecturer

My research interests include sport, migration, and psychosocial development. My research is multidisciplinary and moves between individual- and organizational levels of these matt

Social Sciences

ME127

Gunnar Nygren

Gunnar Nygren

Professor

I am mainly doing research on local journalism, on the use of sources and fact checking. I am also teaching, mostly as superviser for thesis work.

Social Sciences

Pejvak Oghazi

Pejvak Oghazi

Professor

Head of department

Dr.Pejvak Oghazi is Professor and head of department of Business Studies. He is also head of Logistic Program at Sodertorn University, School of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences

ME547

Johanna Palmberg

Johanna Palmberg

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Apostolis Papakostas

Apostolis Papakostas

Professor

I am professor in sociology and director of research at Reinvent - the Centre for City Dynamics, www.sh.se/reinvent

Social Sciences

ME229F

Ella Petrini

Ella Petrini

Doctoral Student

My PhD-thesis investigates the links between working conditions and environmental impact of industrial forestry, and the relations between trade unions and environmentalists.

Social Sciences

ME222

Olena Podolian

Olena Podolian

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Kristina Riegert

Kristina Riegert

Professor

Global media, comparative journalism, conflict and crisis coverage, politicotainment, cultural citizenship

Social Sciences

ME319

Christopher Rosenqvist

Christopher Rosenqvist

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

My research and teaching is about how new technologies affect and change the ecosystem of actors in different industrial arenas with focus on AI and business modelling.

Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies

MD276

Sanita Rugina

Sanita Rugina

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

My research focuses on entrepreneurship at the individual level, the construction of entrepreneurial identity, gender perspectives and entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe.

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

MA793

Paulina Rytkönen

Paulina Rytkönen

Senior Lecturer

I am associate professor in Economic history and lecturer in Business Studies at the School of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences

ME429D

Steven Saxonberg

Steven Saxonberg

Professor

I am a political sociologist, who writes about social policy, attitudes, social movements and civil society, totalitarianism, democratization, social change and populism.

Social Sciences

ME229D

Shamima Shah

Shamima Shah

Financial officer

Budgetekonom

Finance and Auditing

MA889

Maria Smolander

Maria Smolander

PhD

Senior Lecturer

Stefan Svallfors

Stefan Svallfors

Professor

Social Sciences

Adrienne Sörbom

Adrienne Sörbom

Professor

I am Professor of sociology, and I study issues related to political organization, globalisation and democracy. I mainly teach on the use of qualitative methods and on democracy.

Social Sciences

ME229C

Nazem Tahvilzadeh

Nazem Tahvilzadeh

My research and teaching deals with public administration, political theory and theory of democracy with a particular focys on policy processes and urban governance.

Social Sciences

ME449

Jani Turunen

Jani Turunen

Senior Lecturer

I teach within the Social Work programme and the Police Education Programme at Södertörn University. My research deals with issues of children and families and divorce/separations.

Social Sciences

ME116

Jaakko Turunen

Jaakko Turunen

Senior Lecturer

I am a researcher and teacher at the Academy of Public Administration and teach also in Social Work and Police Education.

Social Sciences

ME413

Liudmila Voronova

Liudmila Voronova

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

I teach and conduct research in the field of journalism studies. I am director of studies for PESO research area

Social Sciences

ME347

Noomi Weinryb

Noomi Weinryb

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Associate professor

Social Sciences

ME451

Magnus Wennerhag

Magnus Wennerhag

Professor

My research and teaching mainly concerns social movements, political participation, social stratification, climate protests, political violence, and sociological theory.

Social Sciences

ME225

Karin Winroth

Karin Winroth

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

My research focus on corporate culture, leadership in knowledge intensive firms, consumer culture, branding, social media, branding and digital entrepreneurship.

Social Sciences

ME426