Team
This is the PregDem Team.
Elin Naurin
Elin Naurin is a professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg and a Wallenberg Academy Fellow since 2017. Elin is the project leader of the Gothenburg Research Program on Pregnancy and Politics (PregDem). She has a wide research interest in theories and practices of representative democracy and focuses specifically on the role that pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood play in the development of individual's' political opinions, behavior and knowledge about politics.
Petrus Olander
Petrus Olander is a Post-doctoral fellow with the Gothenburg Research Program on Pregnancy and Politics (PregDem). He obtained his PhD in Political Science in 2018 from the University of Gothenburg. His research interests include satisfaction with care, pregnancy, trust and how transitions to parenthood affect views on politics and the state. He has worked on American political development, trust, economic diversification and institutional quality. Petrus research has been published in Studies in Comparative International Development, Legislative Studies Quarterly and the Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government.
Lucy Zheng
Lucy Zheng is a Post-doctoral fellow with the Gothenburg Research Program on Pregnancy and Politics (PregDem). She studied at Cornell University, where she double majored in Psychology and Political Science (with minors in International Relations and Law & Society). After university, she taught political science in a high school in Los Angeles while doing her masters in Urban Education. She later received her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from the University of California - Davis, with a core project focused on personality development in adolescents. She has authored papers examining the influence of educators, family and friends, technology, and the self on socioemotional development, academic achievement, and general and health behaviors. In the PregDem project, Lucy aims to understand the emotional, lifestyle, and political changes that occur throughout pregnancy and childbirth, and how time and identity play a role in these changes.
Elias Markstedt
Elias Markstedt is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science at University of Gothenburg. His work centers on gender and politics, political behavior, and survey methodology, with a particular focus on the gender-specific impact of significant life events on political attentiveness, knowledge, and attitudes. Elias has over 10 years of experience in survey design, developing and managing large scale online data collections, both as a researcher at the Gothenburg University Research Program on Pregnancy and Politics, and previously as a survey/data manager working with scholars in a wide range of social science disciplines at the SOM Institute.
Dietlind Stolle
Dietlind Stolle is James McGill Professor in Political Science at McGill University and former Director of the Inter-University Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. She conducts research and has published on voluntary associations, trust, social capital, ethnic diversity, immigrant integration, political participation, neuro-politics, democratic backsliding, and gender and politics. Her book “Political Consumerism—Global Responsibility in Action” (2013) by Cambridge University Press (with Michele Micheletti) won the Comparative Politics Prize of the Canadian Political Science Association. In 2021/22 she is a Fernand Braudel Fellow at EUI. Her current projects include research on the role of pregnancy for political (de)mobilization, political polarization, support for democrtic transgression, political and social consequences of COVID, adaptation of Syrian refugees and the political consequences of gender identity.
Helen Elden
Helen Elden is a professor in reproductive and perinatal health at the University of Gothenburg. Helen is the research group leader for Sexual-Reproductive and Perinatal Health who conducts research on pregnancy, childbirth and the neonatal period. The aim is to contribute to excellent care that promotes the health of newborns and families. The projects are conducted not only in Sweden but also in other European countries and developing countries. Helen’s research has generated new knowledge, among other things, about pregnancy-related pelvic pain and the induction of labour in the event of prolonged pregnancy. She is also a subject representative for the main area of reproductive and perinatal health, teaches in the midwifery program and in the independent master’s program in reproductive and perinatal health and sits on the Sahlgrenska Academy’s teacher proposal committee.
Verena Sengpiel
Verena works as senior consultant at the obstetric department, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and is an Associate Professor at Gothenburg University. She is working for the Swedish Pregnancy Register (www.graviditetsregistret.se) and the Swedish network for national clinical studies in Obstetrics and Gynecology (www.snaks.se). Her research interest is in epidemiologic and clinical obstetrical studies. Verena has participated in a number of longitudinal studies of pregnant women, she has extensive experience in register-based studies with focus on pregnancy outcomes and she has been part of several clinical trials. She is the initiator and leader of the COPE study, studying effects of Covid-19 on pregnant women and their babies https://www.copestudien.se .
Karolina Lindén
Karolina Lindén is a registered nurse, registered midwife and an assistant professor in reproductive and perinatal health at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. Her main research focus is centred around experiences of pregnancy and birth in women and people with added medical risk, such as diabetes mellitus and preeclampsia. Further, Karolina studies factors associated with optimal care and is the primary investigator for the national COPE Staff study investigating working conditions for health care workers and organisational aspects of Swedish pregnancy, birth and neonatal care.
Lisa Berglin
Lisa Berglin is a PhD student at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University of Gothenburg and a resident doctor in obstetrics and gynecology at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. In her PhD thesis, she studies effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection and its consequences on pregnancy and maternity care.
