Docent and Associate Senior Lecturer

Jan Mewes is docent and associate senior lecturer in sociology. He holds a doctorate in social sciences (defended in 2009) from the University of Bremen, Germany. Before joining the Department of Sociology at Lund University in 2018, Jan was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen (2009-2011), forskarassistent at Örebro University (2015), and postdoctoral/senior researcher at Umeå University (2011-2013, 2016-2018).

Jan’s research interests include social trust, welfare states, migration and public opinion. Currently, he is leading the international research project ”Three Worlds of Trust: A Longitudinal Study of Welfare States, Life-Course Risks, and Social Trust”, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds: The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (NHS14-2035:1).

His teaching covers the subject areas social policy, development, welfare states, welfare administration, and quantitative methods.

For an overview about Jan's publications, please check his Google Scholar profile.