Nana Hansen

Education

• 2004: MA in Political Science, University of Copenhagen.
• 2013: PhD in Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Employment

• 2017-current: Associate Professor, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
• 2013-2017: Assistant Professor, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
• 2010-2013: PhD Fellow, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
• 2008-2010: Research Assistant, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
• 2007-2008: Consultant, The Danish Association of Junior Hospital Doctors (Yngre Læger).
• 2005-2007: Lecturer, Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS).
• 2005-2006: Intern/consultant, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO).

Primary fields of research

Public sector collective bargaining; management-employee cooperation in the public sector; skilled labour migration; outsourcing/offshoring.

Current research

Nana Wesley Hansen is associate professor at the Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) at the Department of Sociology. Her primary research area is collective bargaining and cooperation in the private and public sector. She works with sector collective bainaing and local level.

Concurrently, Nana Wesley Hansen also conducts analysis on the recruitment of highly skilled foreign workers to Denmark. She studies the policy developments and recruitment practices at national and local levels. Recently, she has engaged in research on the relationship between offshoring of jobs and mobility of highly skilled employees in multinational companies within medico and the ICT business.

Nana Wesley Hansen is part of the research group on Knowledge, Organization and Policy at the Department of Sociology.

Selected publications

• Employment Relations in Denmark Andersen, Søren Kaj, Hansen, Nana Wesley, Due, Jesper Jørgen & Madsen, Jørgen Steen, 15 Mar 2021, International and Comparative Employment Relations: Global Crises and Institutional Responses (7th edition). SAGE Publications
• Government employers in Sweden, Denmark and Norway: The use of power to control wage and employment conditions Hansen, Nana Wesley & Seip, Å. A., 29 Jan 2018, In: European Journal of Industrial Relations. 24, 1, p. 73-89 17 p.
• Public service employment relations in an era of austerity: The case of Denmark Hansen, Nana Wesley & Mailand, Mikkel, 2013, In: European Journal of Industrial Relations. 19, 4, p. 375-389 15 p.
• The influence of regulative contents, stakeholders, and formalization on managerial autonomy perceived at the front line Bjørnholt, B., Boye, S. & Hansen, Nana Wesley, 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Public Management Review .
• The creation and future of the new Danish trade union confederation Andersen, Søren Kaj & Hansen, Nana Wesley, 17 Jul 2019, In: Transfer: European review of Labour and Research. 25, 2, p. 229–234
• Labour market specific institutions and the working conditions of labour migrants: The case of Polish migrant labour in the Danish labour market Arnholtz, Jens & Hansen, Nana Wesley, 3 Sep 2013, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. 34, 3, p. 1-22 22 p.