About
Ivan Harsløf holds a Master in social science and international studies from Aalborg University (1998) and a PhD in Sociology, University of Oslo (2007). As part of his master's and doctoral studies, he has had longer-term stays at Sonoma State University, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and Università Milano-Bicocca. He has worked at the Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI), Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), and since 2006 at HiOA. Here he has been the Managing Director of the Group for Inclusive Social Welfare (2006-2010), acting research leader for the interfaculty program, Care, Health and Welfare (2010-2012) and from 2011, Assistant Dean for research at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
He teaches Comparative Social Welfare Theory and Concepts at the Master in International Social Welfare and Health Policy. Research interests include comparative welfare state research, the organization of social services, social inequalities in health, poverty and European social policy.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Social work Sociology Political science and organisational theory
Subject areas
Working life Cross-national comparison Welfare and poverty Inequalities in Health Arbeidsrettet rehabilitering Active social policies New social risks
Regions
Research groups
Research projects
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EUROSHIP – Closing Gaps in Social Citizenship. New Tools to Foster Social Resilience in Europe
The overall aim of the EUROSHIP project is to provide an original and gender-sensitive assessment of the current gaps in social protection across Europe.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Harsløf, Ivan
(2024).
Nordic egalitarianism at the face of evolving social risks.
Problemy Polityki Społecznej.
Vol. 65.
https://doi.org/10.31971/pps/176253
Harsløf, Ivan (2024). Rethinking research on young adults’ labour market inclusion: A critical analysis of ambivalent outcome categories. Solem, May-Britt; Jenssen, Dag (Ed.). Critical Realism for Health and Social Research. Routledge.
Harsløf, Ivan (2024). Exchanging theories and concepts on welfare policies between North and South. Biswas, Sattwick Dey; Sambo, Cleopas Gabriel; Pellissery, Sony (Ed.). The Politics of Welfare in the Global South. Oxford University Press.
Harsløf, Ivan ; Lødemel, Ivar (2024). Norway: Activation in the Labouring Society. Jørgensen, Henning; Schulze, Michaela (Ed.). Unemployment and Activation Policies in Europe and the US. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Greve, Bent;
Harsløf, Ivan
; Gerven, Minna van; Nieuwenhuis, Rense; Strigén, Jacob
(2023).
How Have the Nordic Welfare States Responded to the Unexpected Increase in Inflation?.
13 p.
Social Policy and Society.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746423000313
Harsløf, Ivan
; Zuev, Dennis
(2022).
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe.
Mobilities.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2092417
Harsløf, Ivan
;
Larsen, Kristian
; Bambra, Clare
(2022).
When health is wealth: occupationally differentiated patterns of health capital in post-industrial Europe.
Social Theory & Health.
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-022-00187-3
Larsen, Kristian ; Harsløf, Ivan (2021). ‘The human bottom line’: New institutionalism and Bourdieu’s field theory on the growing prominence of healthiness in Nordic work organizations. Robinson, Sarah; Ernst, Jette; Larsen, Kristian; Thomassen, Ole Jacob (Ed.). Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management. Societal Change and Transforming Fields . Routledge.
Asimakopoulou, Koula; Hoorens, Vera; Speed, Ewen; Coulson, Neil; Antoniszczak, Dominika; Collyer, Fran; Deschrijver, Eliane; Dubbin, Leslie; Faulks, Denise; Forsyth, Rowena; Goltsi, Vicky;
Harsløf, Ivan
;
Larsen, Kristian
; Manaras, Irene; Olczak‐Kowalczyk, Dorota; Willis, Karen; Xenou, Tatiana; Scambler, Sasha
(2020).
Comparative optimism about infection and recovery from COVID‐19; Implications for adherence with lockdown advice.
Health Expectations.
https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13134
Larsen, Kristian ; Harsløf, Ivan (2020). Promoting Health as a Form of Capital: The Transformation of the Danish Healthcare Field as Experienced By Private Healthcare Professionals. Collyer, Fran; Willis, Karen (Ed.). Navigating Private and Public Healthcare: Experiences of Patients, Doctors and Policy-Makers. p. 201-223. Palgrave Macmillan.
