NICE News and Status Klaus Petersen and Anne-Marie Mai

1. NICE News and Status • Klaus Petersen and Anne-Marie Mai

2. The first 6 months … • Recruitment of assistant professor and post.docs • Finalizingcontracts for %-professors • Making a plan for research applications • Plans for seminars and events (TBA) • Lots of planning

3. Assistant professors/post.docs. • Presentingtoday: • Heidi Vad Jønsson (History, 08-14) • Camilla Schwarz (Culture Studies, 02-14) • Lisa Dahlager (Health, 09-14) • TBA: • XXX (Health, lateautumn 14)

4. Post.doc. Christop Nguyen (Co-financed with political science) Startingmid-September One year Ph.D. Northwestern University 2014 Research interests:Comparativepoliticaleconomy, politicalpsychology, insecurity and riskinequality, welfarestates, industrial relations, organizationalbehavior, social trust, mixed methodology, experimentalmethods Dissertation: Coping with EconomicInsecurity: Labormarketrisk, trust, and cooperation Publications include: James Mahoney, KhairunnisaMohamedali, and Christoph Nguyen, “The CausalLogic of HistoricalInstitutionalism”, Oxford Handbook of HistoricalInstitutionalism, Forthcoming

5. Four %-professors • Birgit Pfau-Effinger • Professor in sociology, Hamburg Universität • Research interests: Comparative WS research, gender and family policy, culture and welfare • Bruce Robbins • Professor in English and Compartiveliterature, Columbia University • Research interest s: 19th- and 20th-century fiction; Nordic crime fiction; literary and cultural theory, the literary history of the welfare state

6. Four %-professors • Daniel Béland • Professor in Sociology, University of Saskatchewan • Research interests: Welfarestate, comparative WS studies, the role of ideas, taxes, etc. etc. • Olli Kangas • Research director, KELA, Helsinki • Research interests: Nordic welfarestate, comparative WS research, pensions, health, measurement of ”welfare” etc etc.

7. So far so good – whatnexts? • The team is now set … • Challenge 1: Individual research projects (publications) • Challenge 2: Larger research applications • Challenge 3: NICE cooperation and infrastructure

8. Individual research projects • Fourindividual research agendas TBA heretoday • Engagement in the largerapplications • Individualapplications: FKK/FSE, Marie Curie, Carlsberg • NICE have some support for projects: • Travel (conferenceetc.): App. 10-15.000 pro year • Data collection • Experiments • Research seminars • Meetings preparingapplications • Support from research assistant

9. Plannedlargerprojects • NORD-Spin(Pernille, Paul, Klaus & Olli) • Labour market and preferences (Paul) • Patient involvement (Kim, Klaus and AM) • Narrative medicin (Peter and AM) • Welfarestate museum (Klaus and AM) • Individualprojects: • Peter, Klaus, Paul & Anne-Marie willtry ERC in 2015 and 2016 as well as FSE/FKK, Carlsberg, Velux

10. NCOE NORD-spin (spatialinqualities) • NORD-forsk NCOE program in Health and Welfare • Workinggroup: Olli, Klaus, Paul and Pernille (deadline: November 2014) • Focus on spatialinequality in health and welfare • Topics: 1) Family-work balance, 2) Marginalization, 3) Labour market transformations, 4) Life styles and cultures • Creating a joint Nordic frame work for approaching regional disparities in new innovative ways based on inter-disciplinary and multi-method approach. • Creating a joint Nordic framework for formulating and communicating smarter policy solutions. • Creating a Nordic platform for international cooperation • Creating a joint Nordic platform for inter-generational cooperation. • Unifying research findings and policy-making. • Producing easy-to-access comparable Nordic data bases. • Partners from: Helsinki (KELA, HU and others), Oslo (ISF), Stockholm (Karolinska, SU), Reykjavik (HI), SDU (various departments and DS) • Cross-disciplinary: Sociology, Political Science, Health, History, Economics, Culture Studies

11. PI-EU INT • Marie Curie Innovative Training Network • Focus on patient involvement in research, diagnosis and treatments • Plannedapplication in 2016 • 3-4 international partners

12. Project(s) on narrative medicin/literature and medicin • Network • Humanistic Perspectives on Health Systems and Patients: Patients and Care Givers in Contemporary Health Practice, Political Rhetoric, Art and Literature • Application • Danish Agency for Science and Teknology • Peter Simonsen

13. Rita Charon • Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Program in • Narrative Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians • and Surgeons • Co-editor of Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in • Medical Ethics, Routledge 2002. • Editor-in-chief of the journal Literature and Medicine • ¨

14. Rishi Goyal • MD, PhD • Rishi Goyal finished his PhD in English and his Emergency Medicine residency as Chief • Resident from Columbia University in 2010.  Goyalis an Assistant Professor in the • Division of Emergency Medicine and is teaching a class in the Institute of Comparative • Literature entitled “Imagining Illness”.  He is broadly interested in the intersection of • medicine and culture and is more specifically interested in the areas of • medical cognition and identity and representation after illness.

15. The risk society revisited: illness narratives and personal responsibility • Like other forms of autobiographical writing, illness narratives have become more common in • modern times. The proliferation of illness narratives began in parallel with the modern growth of • effective biomedicine, the most representative stories being cancer in the 1970s and AIDS in the • 1980s. While both cancer and AIDS narratives ushered in an era of the ‘politicized patient’, as • marginalized and disenfranchised individuals claimed a voice and seat at the table, both were • predicated on the eventual success of scientific rationality. Distinct from those earlier narratives, • the most representative illness narrative in contemporary times is the reflexive risk narrative. • Reflexive risk narratives are centered on the risks to the body and health from modernization and • underscore illness as a constitutive aspect of identity. Even as more illnesses can be traced to • corporate practices and the latent side effects of modernization, neoliberal ideology seems to place • the moral burden of disease squarely on the patient who is blamed or lauded for his or her active • risk management.

16. Rachel Adams Professor of English and Comparative Literature 19th- and 20th-century American literature; media studies; theories of gender and sexuality; disability studies; cultural studies; theories of transnationalism and globalization She is the director of "The Future of Disability Studies Project," and also holds an appointment in the American Studies Program.  Her most recent book is Raising Henry:  A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, published by Yale University Press in 2013.

17. SayantaniDasGupta, MD, MPH • Pediatrician, trained in oral history, international feminist activist, • leader in disability studies nowwriting a book on surrogate • motherhood in India. Teachestworequiredcourses in the MS • program—Illness Narratives and Narrative Medicine and Social • Justice

18. Annette Søgaard Nielsen Projektdirektør, Adjunkt, Cand. phil, phd Forskningsenheden for klinisk alkoholforskning Psykiatri Mødet mellem to verdener Patienter og behandlere i alkoholmisbrugsbehandlingen Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2002.

19. Welfarestate museum • Velux Foundation: Call for cooperationbetween museums and university (deadline november 2014) • Building on existingcooperation • Social welfare museum in Svendborg • Focus: Marginalizedgroups • Studying, tellingtheir story and givingaccess to theirown story

20. 3. NICE infrastructure • Long term plan for international seminars • Cooperationbetweenpost.docs/assistant professors • International workshops/seminars • How to ”use” %-professors