Dr Karen M. Anderson PhD in Political Science, University of Washington (USA)
Associate Professor of Social Policy, Examinations Officer, Erasmus and Student Exchange Coordinator

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Dr Karen M. Anderson is Associate Professor of Social Policy within Social Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Karen M. Anderson is Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Washington (Seattle) and has held positions in political science at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL), in public administration at Leiden University (NL) and in sociology at the University of Twente (NL). Her research focuses on comparative social policy development, the interaction of labor market policy and social policy, and the impact of Europeanization on national welfare states. She is the author of Social Policy in the European Union (Palgrave, 2015) and the editor (with Ellen M. Immergut and Isabelle Schulze) of the Handbook of West European Pension Politics (Oxford University Press, 2007). Her work has also appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, West European Politics, Canadian Journal of Sociology, and the Journal of Public Policy.