Jakob Strigén PhD student
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Name and title: Jakob StrigénPhD student
Workplace: Swedish Institute for Social Research Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Universitetsvägen 10 F
Postal address Institutet för social forskning106 91 Stockholm
Research group
About me
I am a PhD student in the Social Policy Unit (SocPol) at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, with research interests in comparative welfare state studies, family policy, trade unions, life course perspectives, and health inequalities.
Before joining SocPol as a PhD student, I worked as a research assistant on the expansion of the Social Policy Indicator Database (SPIN), a comparative and longitudinal database of central welfare state institutions, and the DEFEN-CE project, an international initiative that investigated the role of social dialogue in addressing the employment and social protection rights of vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In my PhD thesis, I examine the interplay between people’s work–family life courses from age 18 to 45 and the characteristics of social policies in different institutional contexts in shaping health outcomes later in life. I approach this from the perspective of cumulative (dis)advantage, focusing on how disadvantages across life domains interrelate and accumulate over time to produce health inequalities, and how social policies can intervene at various points along the life course to disrupt this negative accumulation.
My thesis is part of the Sustainable Synergies programme, which explores how welfare systems can be developed to support a sustainable working life for all.