Research

Kerstin Junge

Kerstin is a Researcher and Consultant at the Tavistock Institute. Her work focuses on pan-European as well as UK national evaluations and studies in the social policy domain. Drawing on political science theories as well as traditional Tavistock socio-technical systems thinking, she applies qualitative and comparative methods to develop a solid evidence base which supports the decision-making of policy makers and programme managers.

Kerstin has a particular interest in questions relating to the Information Society and the social use of technology and has carried out work in these areas for both EU and UK clients. Current and recent assignments in this area have focused on responses by European governments to the issues of digital inclusion and citizen-centric eGovernment as well as support for the development of Virtual Research Environments by the UK Higher Education Community.

Kerstin’s background is in European Studies where she completed a PhD exploring the impact of differentiation on the process of European integration.

Recent publications include:

• The Evaluation Framework for Science in Society initiatives
  (read here and here),
• The eInclusion handbook (read here)
  and
• A think paper on the scope for organisational change in the public sector
  (read here).

She has also contributed a chapter on differentiated European Integration for the 2nd edition of Michelle Cini’s textbook on the European Union (www.oup.co.uk).