Senior Researcher/ Consultant

Josina Moltesen, BSc, MSc

I am an experienced policy analyst and evaluator with key expertise in European labour markets and social affairs as well as other policy areas and research methods. The last couple of years, I have worked on studies and evaluations for the European Commission (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, DG Education and Culture, DG Enterprise), Eurofound, the Danish Government (Ministry of Employment, Ministry of Education and Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority) and lately for the UK Government. Before I joined the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR), I worked with labour market and employment policy, education policy and information society as a researcher/ consultant for the Danish Technological Institute (DTI).

My main research interests are issues pertaining to the labour market, welfare state systems, and integration of young and/or vulnerable groups in the labour market, information society and education. Some of the projects I have worked on include the contribution of public employment services to flexicurity, trends and challenges of the flexicuirty model, the role of public employment services in anticipating future skills needs, global sourcing and retention of vulnerable students in Vocational Education and Training (VET) deploying a range of qualitative and quantitative methods. I am particularly interested in comparative approaches to policy analysis in a European setting. More recent and ongoing studies are an impact assessment of the costs and benefits of introducing paternity leave in the EU (DG Employment), an ex-post evaluation on the policy lessons from the regional programmes of innovative actions in the EU (DG Regio) and a study on using ICTs to support the re-integration of vulnerable and/or excluded young people into society.

With the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Social Democrats as former employers, I am used to working in and with political organisations. I am skilled in dissemination and producing various types of content ranging from government websites to government action plans and academic reports.

My academic background is firmly rooted within political science with master degrees from London School of Economics (2006) and University of Copenhagen (2007) as well as a bachelor degree from University of Copenhagen (2004). In 2005, I taught comparative politics at the University of Copenhagen and since then I have strengthened my theoretical and practical methodological skills in evaluation and research.

Josina will be on maternity leave from 18th May 2011.