Associate Professor
Main Research and Teaching Areas
- Political Economy
- International Migration and Integration
- Welfare & Social Policy Transformations
- Economic Sociology
- Socioeconomic Development
- Public Policy and Institutions
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Mixed-Methods Research
Current Research
Current research entails two specific projects. The first project focuses on social policy transformations, conditionality and social investments by analyzing effects of retractions of study allowances in Swedish upper-secondary schools, using register data from Swedish Board of Student Finance (CSN).
The second project pertains to the global quest for talent, particularly STEM (i.e. science, technology, engineering, and math) migration and retention of high-skilled competency in the Swedish Labor Market.
Selected Publications
Author
2025
2024
2023
- Stockholm: Social mechanisms of migrants' emplacement in a segregated global city.
- Immigrant Organizations and Labor market Integration: The Case of Sweden.
2022
2021
2018
- Spain: extreme case of successful integration of second-generation immigrants with transfers of best practices applicable to other European countries?
Beyond Granted Asylum - Labor Market Integration Challenges in Sweden
2017
- Social Investment in Latin America in A. Hemerijck (ed.) The Uses of Social Investment. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- From Perspectives to Policy Contingencies: Conditional cash transfers as social investments
2016
2015
- Evidence-based Policymaking? Revisiting the "Known", the Assumed and the Promoted in New Social Development Policy
- Politicisation of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Guatemala
Background
PhD in Sociology in 2014 (opponent: Alejandro Portes) after several years of professional work and consultancy within development finance and structured trade finance. Between January 2015-December 2018, Director of Studies, Lund University Masters of Science Programme in International Development and Management (LUMID). Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Migration and Development (CMD), Princeton University between August 2015 and July 2016. Research Fellow at the Center for Migration and Development, Department of Sociology at Princeton University (annually revision, first awarded on May 16, 2016). Affiliated with the Center for Economic Demography, Lund University since November 5, 2018. Associate professor (Docent) since July-2021 (reviewer: Joakim Palme). Qualified Teaching Practitioner, Teaching Academy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund
University (awarded on March 16, 2023). Board member at the Department of Sociology, Lund University (2024- ).
Research Projects
- Conditionality and Behavioural Change in New Social Policy: Effects of Retracted Study Allowances in Sweden. Contact: johan [dot] sandberg [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se.
- Global Quest for Talent: STEM-migration in the Swedish Labour Market. Collaboration with the Center for Economic Demography at Lund University and the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. Contact: johan [dot] sandberg [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se.