Promotor:
Jan VAN BAVEL
Collaborators: Mieke Jansen & Tom De Winter
http://www.transeurope-project.org
Description:
"Globalisation and Europeanisation have become central reference points for media, politicians, academics, and policy-makers to explain social change and understand social inequality in European member countries. Globalisation and Europeanisation bring broader social regulations and tensions in national structures. They are two transnational processes experienced mutually by all nations, yet each nation appears to be impacted differently, though.
Though the phenomena of Europeanisation and globalisation are increasingly coming to dominate public and political discourse, there remains a lack of research how these processes affect and change the family and employment lifes of European citizens. So far, little empirical research connects these transnational changes to inequality at the individual level in Europe. Furthermore, it is not yet established whether individual life courses in European countries are experiencing more convergence or divergence.
The TransEurope Research Network closes this gap by bringing together leading European experts in Political Science, Demography, Economics, and Sociology from 7 countries to conceptualise, operationalise, test, and compare the impact of transnational shifts on life course inequality across Europe. This international and interdisciplinary design of the network allows the study of the supranational processes of Globalization and Europeanisation while at the same time paying attention to their repercussions in different national contexts.
Furthermore, TransEurope explicitly addresses the skills shortage in scholars able to perform international comparative research through a programme for young scientists to be trained in the analysis of comparative life course and panel data by the TransEurope network of senior scientists across Europe. The Programme seeks to create high levels of scholarship and productivity by bringing together national experts and junior researchers within Europe and creating the opportunity for them to collaborate on innovative and path-breaking comparative research. "
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