People

The centre's researchers work at the Stockholm School of Economics and with colleagues at other universities in Sweden and abroad. Below are the researchers at SSE, followed by affiliated researchers from other universities.

Affiliated researchers

Researchers at other universities who work with the centre on joint projects and publications.

Lisa Kings
Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Södertörn University. Her research deals with civil society, local associations and social movements, above all in marginalised urban neighbourhoods. She takes part in the centre's study of civil society organisations in societal crises (2022–2026, funded by MSB).
Profile at Södertörn University

Stig Linde
Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work, Lund University, and Docent in Practical Theology (diaconia and social work) at Åbo Akademi. He studies how nonprofit organisations are evaluated, professional conduct in food assistance, the mobilisation of voluntary organisations in crises, and diaconal work in parishes and city missions.
Profile at Lund University

Marta Reuter
Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Public Administration, Stockholm University. Her research deals with civil society organisations as political actors, their governance, and the relationship between civil society and the state. She currently studies how the state regulates the participation of interest groups in policy-making, and sits on the editorial board of Nonprofit Policy Forum.
Profile at Stockholm University

Daniel Semper
Lecturer in Management, University of St Andrews Business School. He studies institutional change in and across organisational fields: how transnational fields change over time, tensions between fields and subfields, and how new forms of organisation gain legitimacy.
Profile at the University of St Andrews