Olli Kangas#
Membership Number: | 5928 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
Elected: | 2022 |
Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Homepage(s): | https://www.utu.fi/fi/ihmiset/olavi-kangas |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-7343-6337 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Research Director at the University of Turku, Department of Social Research
- 2015 - 2021 Program Leader, Strategic Research Council, Academy of Finland (part-time)
- 2007 - 2015 Director of the Research Department, Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela)
- 2003 - 2006 Research professor, Institute for Social Research, Copenhagen
- 1994 - 2003 Professor of Social Policy, University of Turku
- 2015 Olof Palme Professor, Department of Political Science, Uppsala University
- 2010 H.C. Andersen Professor at the University of Southern Denmark
- 2000 Visiting Research Fellow, Centrum für Sozialpolitik, Univeristy of Bremen
- 1999 Visiting professor, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales
- 1997 Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Stockholm
Fields of Scholarship
- Macro-historical studies
- Inequality and poverty
- Basic income and minimum income protection
- Comparative studies
- Social policy in the developmental perspective
- Comparative welfare state research
- Inclusive labour market
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Honorary Doctor at the Åbo Akademi University
- 2013 Honorary award of the Finnish Social Policy Association
- 2013 Kone Foundation’s Award of the best article published in Finnish social sciences
- 2010 Title of Docent, Social and Public Policy, University of Helsinki
- 2009 Honorary Professor, Centre for Welfare State Studies, University of Southern Denmark
- 2008 Invited member of the Finnish Academic Society for Letters and Sciences
- 1998 Teacher of the Year Award, University of Turku (1998)
- 1994 Research prize by the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health
- 1994 Title of Docent, Department of Sociology, University of Tampere
- 1993 Title of Docent, Department of Sociology, University of Stockholm
- 1992 Title of Docent, Department of Social Policy, University of Turku