Section: Staff Profiles
Elke Heins
- Name
- Dr Elke Heins
- Title
- Teaching Fellow in Social Policy
- Organisation
- Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 3.22 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 131 650 4049
- elke.heins@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- comparative social policy,Labour Market Policy,unemployment insurance,fuzzy set/QCA,welfare reform,trade unions,Social Determinants of Health,Health policy,Health politics
- URL
- http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/staff/heins_elke
Biographical Statement
I am a graduate of the University of Mannheim and have a PhD in Political and Social Science from the European University Institute in Florence. Before joining the Social Policy Subject Group in September 2009, I held research and teaching positions at the University of Stirling and the Centre for International Public Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
My principal research interests are comparative welfare state policies, in particular labour market and unemployment policy as well as health policy.
I am a member of RECWOWE, a Network of Excellence on ‘Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe’ under the EU FP6.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
"The role of wage bargaining partners in public sector reform: The case of primary care contracts", in European Journal of Industrial Relations 17(4): 381-396, 2011 (with R. Parry).
“A Review of the Evidence of Third Sector Performance and Its Relevance for a Universal Comprehensive Health System”, in Social Policy and Society 9 (4): 515-526, 2010 (with D. Price, A.M. Pollock, E. Miller, J. Mohan and J. Shaoul).
“Politiques sociales et devolution des pouvoirs : l'exemple ecossais”, Informations sociales 3/2010 (n° 159): 38-45, 2010.
“The commercialization of GP services: a survey of APMS contracts and new GP ownership”, in BJGP 59 (567), 2009 (with A.M. Pollock and D. Price).
“Social Policy in Scotland since Devolution”, in Social Policy and Society 8(3), 419-430, 2009.
“Flexicurity and Welfare reform”, in Socio-Economic Review 7 (2), 305-331, 2009 (with J. Clasen).
“Voluntary unemployment insurance and trade union membership - investigating the connections in Denmark and Sweden”, in Journal of Social Policy 37(3), 433-451, 2008 (with J. Clasen).
“The market in primary care”, in BMJ 335 (7618), 475-477, 8 September 2007 (with A.M. Pollock, D. Price, E. Miller and G. Watt).
“Das Genter System der Arbeitslosenversicherung – immer noch gewerkschaftliches Rekrutierungsinstrument oder sozialpolitisches Auslaufmodell? DÄnemark und Schweden im Vergleich“, in Zeitschrift fÜr Sozialreform (Journal of Social Policy Research) 52 (3): 351-371, 2006 (with J. Clasen).
Book chapters
“Die Situation von Studentinnen und Akademikerinnen in Mannheim - eine Bestandsaufnahme (1907-1998)”, in: Frauenbeauftragte der UniversitÄt Mannheim (ed.): 10 Jahre Senatskommission zur FÖrderung der gleichberechtigten Entfaltung von Frauen in Studium, Forschung und Lehre an der UniversitÄt Mannheim, Mannheim: UniversitÄt Mannheim, 1999 (with A. KÜmmerling).
PhD thesis
The role of trade unions in unemployment insurance: A European Comparison. PhD thesis submitted to the Department of Political and Social Science, European University Institute, Florence.
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