Charlotta Stern Professor of Sociology

Charlotta Stern was promoted Professor of Sociology specialized in work and organizations in 2019. She was the deputy head of department until October 2019. She also held a position as pedagogical ambassadeur at CEUL during the year, and organized Departmental pedagogical lunchbreaks as well as Faculty meetings. In the fall semester, she was a member of a cross disciplinary group of SU-faculty who evalutated ten different educations at Stockholm university, as part of the SU internal quality evaluation system. Since october, she is coordinating the PAO-program that the department hosts. During the spring semester, she organized the PAO-group advising with Linda Weidenstedt, Tina Forsberg and Petter Bengtsson and was  the main supervisor of three bachelor theses from that group. Starting in the fall of 2019, she is teaching Sociology as Science in the first year sociology program, together with Magnus Nermo. Stern's research mainly concern the Swedish labor market, and her research activities are part of the Ratio institute's Labor market program of which she is the PI. There, she has published a report on "Co-worker agreements" (in Swedish), and also edited a book titled En dynamisk arbetsmarknadpublished by Dialogos förlag. She guest lectured for "Korta vägen" about the Swedish labor market. With regard to outreach, Stern was unusually active in 2019. She was on a panel with Lars Calmfors at SKL's conference on "Framtidens lönebildning" and part of another panel at DI's "Strategisk HR"-conference. She commented on the report "Vad är grejen med facket" released by Futurion, TCO's thinktank and also did a podcast with them on the same topic.