Bilde av Mewes, Jan
Bilde av Mewes, Jan
Department of Social Sciences jan.m.mewes@uit.no

Jan Mewes


Job description

Jan holds a doctorate (2009) in social sciences from the University of Bremen, Germany, and has previously worked as lecturer (2018-2024) at the Department of Sociology at Lund University - with which he is still affiliated as an adjunct professor - and as researcher at the Universities of Umeå and Örebro, Sweden.

His research mainly concerns the determinants and consequences of social trust, i.e. the belief that most people can be trusted. He is also interested in health, welfare states and migration. His teaching concerns quantitative methods, social policy, health and the sociology of migration and integration.



Research interests

Trust

Social capital

Welfare states

Health

Teaching

Quantitative methods

 


CV

 Higher education

Docent, Örebro University, Sweden, 2015

Dr. rer. pol. (PhD equivalent), social sciences, University of Bremen, Germany, 2009

Diploma (5-year program), sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 2005