Tomas Gustavsson
Doctoral Student
Department of Sociology and Work ScienceAbout Tomas Gustavsson
I am a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Gothenburg and part of the research project "Labor Market Challenges of the Green Transition in West Sweden: The Electrification and Transformation of the Automotive Cluster." Within the project, I examine how municipalities in West Sweden address the social and economic challenges arising from the green transition.
My primary focus is on how municipalities balance three competing priorities: financing investments in a fossil-free industry, ensuring and developing welfare services, and maintaining economic stability. My starting point is to understand how economic ideas, institutional structures, and actors' interests shape municipalities' strategies and policy decisions as they navigate this trilemma, and how these policy decisions, in turn, shape the transition in West Sweden.
More information about the project can be found here.
My supervisors are Anna Davidsson and Ylva Wallinder
In addition to my research, I teach quantitative methods and philosophy of science at the undergraduate level in sociology and work science.