Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities / Social Indicators Research Series Bd.59 (PDF)

Dagmar Kutsar, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Her research interests are around family, childhood and welfare research and policies. She has been a partner in several international research projects such as EU 6FP PROFIT, IPROSEC, NoE EQUALSOC, EU FP7 FLOWS and others. She has been a member of a Standing Committee of Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation, member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the National Associations Council of the European Sociological Association and Expert of the EU 7FP Youth Social Inclusion Cluster at the European Commission. She has co-edited a book by Routledge 'Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe. The 'Catching Up' - A Myth or a Strategy?' in 2010. Marjo Kuronen received her PhD at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK in 1999. She is professor in social work at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, adjunct professor at the University of Tampere,Finland and visiting professor at the University of Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. Her research interests combine family research, feminist research and social work research. She has studied e.g. the relationships between women, family and the welfare state and gender division in parenting. She has recently been involved in two EC FP7 funded projects, FAMILYPLATFORM (2009-10) and FLOWS (2010-14) and a Finnish Academy funded project on Children's Emotional Security in Multiple Family Relations (2011-14).

“The book relies on a European comparative research project which adopted both quantitative and qualitative approaches. … There are various interesting and relevant findings in the book. … The issues covered by this conscientious research are indeed of much interest, and their importance is easy to appreciate.” (Matías Iglesias, Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities, Vol. 12, 2017)