Ivar Lødemel
Present position: Professor and Research Director for the Research Group for Inclusive Social Welfare Policies (GIV)
Contact information:
E-mail: Ivar.Lodemel@sam.hio.no
Telephone+ 47 22 45 36 76
Mobile: + 47 928 98 973
Fax:+47 22 45 36 00
Office: Pilestredet 35, PE642
Ivar Lødemel is founder and Research Director of the Research Group for Inclusive Social Welfare Policies (GIV). He is trained as a social worker and worked at a social service agency in Oslo before completing a doctorate at the London School of Economics in 1989. He has worked as Research Director at Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science (Oslo), before joining Oslo University College in 2001.
With funding from the EU, he led the first comparative study of workfare in six European nations and three US states. Currently he is director of the Research Strand Activation and New Governance Structures within a Nordic Centre of Excellence. He lectures on an English Master Degree in International Social Welfare and Health Policies, which attracts students both from the global North and South.
Lødemel has been Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law (Munich) and Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as consultant for the World Bank, the Council of Europe, EU and the OECD.
Lødemel is author of The welfare paradox. Income maintenance and personal social services in Norway and Britain, 1946-1966 (1997, Scandinavian University Press), and with Heather Trickey, editor of An Offer You Can`t Refuse. Workfare in international perspective (2001, The Policy Press). He has also been contributor to Resisting Marginalization - Unemployment Experience ans Social Policy in the European Union (2003, Oxford University Press).
Main areas of research:
Living conditions, social services and comparative studies of social assistance.