Dr. Emelie Hane Weijman

Biography

Emelie Hane-Weijman is an Associate Professor in human geography at Umeå University, affiliated with the Center for Regional Science (CERUM). Her research focuses on labor market issues, labor mobility, and regional transformation. She defended her PhD dissertation, titled "Returning Work: Geographies Employment Turbulent" in 2018, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in 2019. In 2020, she was appointed Assistant Professor, and in 2022, she received the Royal Skyttean Society's Prize for Young Researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Umeå University. Her dissertation contextualizes gross employment changes and workers' mobilities during major layoffs. Hane-Weijman's empirical articles examine the influence of industry mix on redundant workers' chances of quickly finding new employment and the impact of transitions on labor market reintegration. Her current research explores regional occupational spaces, skill matching, gender-segmented labor markets, and the impact of new technology on workforce staffing. She collaborates with scholars from Umeå University, the University of Gothenburg, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Additionally, she is a group member of the Regional Economies Change (REC) Group and is involved in several research projects related to labor mobility and regional economic structures.

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