Department of Political Science

Jansen, Alix

Dissertation:

Skills for Whom? Inequality of Access, Active Labour Market Policies, and Automation in 21st Century Welfare States”?

Biography

Alix Jansen is a PhD Candidate and a Connaught International Scholarship holder at the University of Toronto. She specializes in the study of welfare states and the political economy of skills in advanced industrial democracies. She contributes to the research outputs of Future Skills Canada and the Innovation Policy Lab at the University of Toronto. A former Fulbright Scholar, she has international experience in interview-based research concerning work and the welfare state. Her dissertation project focuses on the distribution of retraining to unemployed workers in Canada, the US, Denmark, and the Netherlands. She has also worked as a Senior Advisor for the Ministry of Social Development in New Zealand, where she specialized in operational policy and active labour market policy.

Publications

Jansen, A. J., White, L. A., Dhuey, E., Foster, D., & Perlman, M. (2019). Training and Skills Development Policy Options for the Changing World of Work. Under Review. University of Toronto.

Robbins, M., & Jansen, A. J. (July 12, 2018). Turning Inclusive Innovation into Programs: Four Recommendations for the Federal Government. Institute on Governance.

Robbins, M., & Jansen, A. J. (June 26, 2018). Inclusive Innovation in Canada: Turning Policy into Programs? Canadian International Council.

White, L., E. Dhuey, A. Jansen, M. Perlman, and D. Foster (April 2018). Policy Options for the Changing World of Work. Ontario Human Capital Research and Innovation Fund Synthesis Project Report.

Jansen, A. (2018) Database of Recent Research on the Future of Work and Guide to Databases. Future Skills Canada, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.

Jansen, A. and J. C. King. ‘Morgan Godfery (ed). ‘The Interregnum – Rethinking New Zealand’ (Book Review). New Zealand Sociology 31, 2 (2016): 252-260.

Katherine Smits and Alix Jansen. ‘Staging the Nation at Expos and World’s Fairs.’ National Identities. Vol. 14, no. 2, 2012

Research Interests

Comparative political economy, social policy, welfare states, political economy of skills.

Previous Degrees

M.A. Politics, New School for Social Research;

M.P.P, University of Auckland;

B.A. (Honours) Political Studies and History, University of Auckland.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant – POL203 US Politics, POLC36 Law and Public Policy, ULEC2870 Remaking America? (The New School), POL343 Nationalism and Internationalism and POL113 Politics and the Media (University of Auckland).