Detailed CV Janine Leschke PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Janine Leschke Phone +32-(0)2-2240469 E-mail j_leschke@yahoo.com Nationality German Date of birth 27 November 1976 WORK EXPERIENCE From 2006 onwards: Senior labour market researcher, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels Current comparative projects: labour market and social impacts of the economic crisis, cross-border labour mobility after EU enlargement, social policy and Europe 2020, job quality in Europe; coordination of and participation in international research projects; supervision of students; advisory and expert tasks, reviews for academic journals 2003 2006: Researcher at labour market policy and employment unit, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) Doctoral researcher, international research cooperation (FP5 network on Managing Social Risks through Transitional Labour Markets and Berlin network of labour market research) 2000-2003: Student assistant at labour market policy and employment unit, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) Project on qualification needs in OECD countries: data collection and analysis, co-writing of papers, international cooperation, supervisor: Klaus Schömann EDUCATION 2006: PhD in Political Science, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Free University Berlin Summa cum laude, with distinction Title: Are unemployment insurance systems in Europe capable of covering the special risks that persons with non-standard employment contracts are facing? A comparison of Denmark, Germany, Spain and the UK Supervisors: Günther Schmid, WZB and Gert Wagner, DIW Berlin 2003: Diploma in Political Science, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Free University Berlin With distinction Specialisation in labour market policies, economics (minor), and statistics Title of diploma thesis: Incentives in unemployment insurance systems in Germany, Great Britain and Sweden Supervisor: Günther Schmid, WZB and FU Berlin 2000-2001: Studies at Social Science department of Université Laval, Quebec, Canada Scholarship of Free University Berlin 1
INTERNSHIPS October - November 2003: Internship at International Labour Organisation (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland Employment strategy unit: co-writing of a book on active labour market policies in developed and developing countries, supervisor: Peter Auer April - June 2002: Internship at Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament) Drafting of speeches and discussion documents in the field of labour market and social policy June - August 2001: Internship at Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (German Trade Union Confederation) Compiling and editing of material on poverty in Berlin TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS Since 2010: Education as welfare (EduWel) Marie Curie Initial Training Network Supervising and teaching PhD students Since 2006: regular teaching of courses for trade unionists organised by the ETUI education department The courses focus on European labour market and social policy 2004/2005 (winter term): Lecturer at Faculty of political science department, Free University of Berlin Teaching undergraduates in applied data analysis using Stata INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COOPERATION UK Skills Commission project (UKCES), University of Leeds Contribution with a case study on Germany (January-March 2011) European social policy in the light of the Europe2020 strategy International research project, coordinator (since 2011 ongoing) CES network European Integration and the Global Political Economy: New Directions Member (since 2011 ongoing) Challenges of the economic crisis to social security systems International research project, coordinator (since 2010 ongoing) Migration and Labour Markets in Troubled Times International book project, coordinator (since 2009 ongoing) Integration, Security, Innovation (INSITO) Participation in quality of work group of DG employment financed project (January-December 2010) 2
CONFERENCES (CHAIRING AND ORGANISING) Council for European Studies (CES), Barcelona 2011 Session organiser: Challenges of the economic crisis for social security systems in Europe RECWOWE Final Conference, Brussels 2011 Discussant of two sessions: Regulating the risk of unemployment and Job quality and work-life balance International workshop Challenges of the economic crisis to social security systems, Brussels 2010 Workshop organiser and chair International workshops Migration and Labour Markets in Troubled Times, Vienna 2009 and Brussels 2010 Workshop co-organiser and chair International workshops Intra-EU labour migration Flows, effects and policy responses, Brussels 2008 and 2009 Workshop co-organiser and chair The social, political and economic role of public services in Europe, EPSU/ETUI /SALTSA conference, Brussels 2007 Conference co-organiser ADVICE AND EXPERTISE European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) Member on behalf of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and chair of working group on access to confidential data (since 2009 ongoing) Council of Europe Member of Committee of Experts on Fostering Social Mobility (2009-2010) European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) Evaluation of several projects (since 2009 ongoing) Solidar Member of advisory committee in DG employment financed project on decent work and quality jobs in Europe (since 2010 ongoing) Hans Böckler Foundation Member of the scientific project advisory committee in the framework of the research promotion programme (2007-2010) European Economic and Social Committee Expert of working group Employment, social affairs and citizenship (since 2006 ongoing) 3
REVIEWS Acta Sociologica, European Sociological Review, Journal of European Social Policy, German Economic Review, WSI- Mitteilungen, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, RECWOWE working paper series FELLOWSHIPS Associated Researcher, Department of Applied Economics Université libre de Bruxelles (DULBEA), Belgium IZA Policy Fellow Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), Bonn, Germany A.SK Social Science Fellowship 2007 Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany TRAINING Workshop on the integrated employment biographies (IEBS) Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg, 26-27 March 2008 Multi-Country Tax-Benefit Microsimulation using Euromod University of Essex, England, 13-17 August 2007 British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) training course University of Essex, England, 22-23 March 2007 Multi-Level Models in SEM Central Archive for Empirical Research, University of Cologne, Germany, 13-17 March 2006 Theory and practice in the analysis of longitudinal data University of Hasselt, Belgium, 6-14 October 2005 Advanced panel analysis University of Tilburg, Tilburg, the Netherlands, 7-11 March 2005 Correspondence analysis Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, University Cologne, Germany, 28 February 4 March 2005 Introduction to cluster analysis Centre for Survey Research and Methodology, Mannheim, Germany, 23-24 March 2004 Survival analysis using Stata Free University Berlin, Germany, summer term 2003 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis Regression and survival analysis, introduction to Stata, Mathematics at University of Essex, England, 6 July 16 August 2002 4
PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES LANGUAGES German: mother tongue English: excellent French: very good Danish: intermediate (good listening and reading skills, in progress) Spanish: intermediate knowledge (good listening and reading skills) Dutch: intermediate knowledge (good listening and reading skills) TECHNICAL SKILLS Stata, SPSS, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, EndNote, various internet and e-mail software REFERENCES Prof. Dr Günther Schmid, former head of Labor Market Policy and Employment Unit, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) e-mail: gues@wz-berlin.de Dr Maria Jepsen, Director of the Research Department, European Trade Union Institute e-mail: mjepsen@etui.org Prof Dr Maarten Keune, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam e-mail: m.j.keune@uva.nl 5