Gabriella Elgenius

Gabriella Elgenius is Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science. She received her doctorate as a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2005, and later held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007-2011) at the Department of Sociology and Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Oxford between 2005-2014 and previously lectured at the LSE, Birkbeck College and SOAS at the University of London.

Gabriella research is within the field of political sociology. She is currently engaging with research within two main areas (i) civil society and integration in vulnerable areas and (ii) ethnic nationalism, populism and the rise of the Radical Right. Gabriella works with mixed methods and comparative qualitative designs. She is the project lead for: LOCALiTIES on civil society and employability in multicultural areas in Sweden and the UK (FORTE); RETHINKING INTEGRATION on domains of integration and civil society in vulnerable areas in Sweden (VR), and EMPOWERING CITIES of MIGRATION on socio-spatial integration, housing and local participation in Sweden, Germany and the UK (FORMAS). Gabriella is a co-applicant for the projects "Why Do Working Class Voters Support the Populist Radical Right?" (VR) led by Jens Rydgren, SU, and the FORTE programme "The Challenges of Polarization on the Swedish Labour Market" (FORTE) led by Tomas Berglund, GU.

Gabriella teaches and supervises in her research areas in political sociology, with a focus on integration, civil society, nationalism, radical right movements, and ethnic and gender stratification in organizations. She teaches courses in qualitative research methods and theory, theoretical coding and Grounded Theory on Master and PhD levels and is Co-Director for the Swedish Social Resarch Council's Graduate Progamme/ Research School for Migration and Integration.

Gabriella is Associate Member at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford, fellow of the RSA the Royal Society of Arts in London, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Centre for the Study on Nationalism at University of Copenhagen.