ProfessorKaren Anderson

Professor

School of Politics and International Relations

  • Professor
    School of Politics and International Relations
  • +353 (0)1 716 8583 (Work)
  • University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • EVENT ADMINISTRATION / PARTICIPATION
    16 Jun 2026
    Programme Co-Chair for the Annual Conference of Europeanists. 1,150 participants, held at University College Dublin
  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    Netherlands Scientific Organisation (NWO)
    1 Jan 2024 - 15 Jun 2024
    Impact or outcome
  • REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Reviewer for manuscripts submitted to Acta Politica, Ageing and Society, American Political Science Review, Beleid en Maatschappij, Business and Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, European Policy, German Policy Studies, Global Social Policy, Governance, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Social Policy, New Political Economy, Policy and Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Public Administration, Review of International Political Economy, Scandinavian Political Studies, Social Policy and Administration, Social Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Socio-Economic Review, Theory & Social Inquiry, West European Politics, World Politics, and Zeitschrift für Sozialreform.
    1 Jan 2024 - 1 Dec 2024
    Anonymous peer review
  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    Invited member of evaluation panel for sociology, social policy, and demography. Assess 20 grant applications per year; voting member.
    1 Oct 2023 - 31 Oct 2028
    Impact or outcome
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands, Houses of the Oireachtas
    1 Dec 2022 - 1 May 2023
    Expert analysis of different models for auto-enrolment in pension schemes
  • CONSULTING / ADVISORY
    1 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2026
    National coordinator for the Netherlands. Oversee expert advice to the European Commission on social policy
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    Invited Panelist for ScandIre panel on Nordic Welfare States
    25 Apr 2022
    One of four expert panelists invited to discuss the lessons of the Nordic Model for Ireland
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    1 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2024
  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    Research Council (FNR) of Luxembourg, invited evaluator for the ATTRACT programme. This is similar to ECR Starting Grants. Rapporteur for one application. Voting member on three others.
    1 Jun 2020
    Impact or outcome
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    The Future of the EU Debate
    25 Feb 2020
    UCD Law Society Debate on the Future of the European Union
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Invited Research Presentations (selected)
    1 Jan 2020
    Invited research presentations at University of Gothenburg (2022); University of Haifa (2022); The Berlin Graduate School (2020); Nuffield College (Oxford University) in 2015; University of Trier (2009); Science Center Berlin (2008); Free University of Berlin (2005); Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University (2004); the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (2000); the Danish National Institute for Social Research (2000); and the Center for Social Policy, Bremen (2000).
  • PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY
    The public-private mix in retirement provision: States, markets and new social risks. Challenges for migrants (in German). Invited presentation for Alterssicherung im internationalen Vergleich und europäische Sozialpolitik 18-20 November 2019. Deutsche Rentenversicherung. Erker, Germany.
    18 Nov 2019
    Invited presentation for Alterssicherung im internationalen Vergleich und europäische Sozialpolitik 18-20 November 2019. Deutsche Rentenversicherung. Erker, Germany.
  • GRANT APPLICATION ASSESSMENT
    Invited member of the "redistribution panel" of the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) for research grant proposals in all disciplines. Voting member of panel; assessed 20 proposals per year.
    1 Jan 2019 - 1 Jun 2023
    Impact or outcome
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Keynote at Symposium on "New Social Risks and Pension Policies in Europe," May 21-22, 2019. Hertie School of Governance, Berlin.
    1 Jan 2019
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    1 Sep 2018 - 30 Jun 2019
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Chairperson of the Luebbert Award for the Best Book in Comparative Politics (2016/17),Comparative Politics Division of the American Political Science Association
    1 Jan 2018 - 1 Sep 2018
    Chair
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    1 Sep 2017 - 30 Jun 2018
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    External Examiner for PhD defense
    1 Jan 2017 - 31 Mar 2017
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Member of Evaluation Panel for Special Research Area in Social Policy, German National Science Foundation (DFG)
    1 Jan 2017 - 1 Nov 2021
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Member of Netherlands Science Organisation's Evaluation Panel for Netspar (Network for Studies on Aging, Pensions and Retirement)
    1 Jan 2017 - 1 Jan 2018
    Member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    1 Sep 2016 - 30 Jun 2017
    Member
  • PERSONAL AWARD, PRIZE, HONOUR
    Keynote for the Annual Meeting of the Research Network of the German Pension Insurance Agency (Deutsche Rentenversicherung), Berlin, 28 January
    28 Jan 2016
    “Adapting Pension Systems to a Changing Market: An International Comparison.” Keynote address (in German)"