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Sonja Bekker is a Professor at Utrecht University, specializing in social policies and employment in the European context. Her research mainly focuses on the labor market position of 'atypical' groups, including individuals in fixed-term, part-time jobs, young workers, and those experiencing in-work poverty. She examines EU governance and social policies within the framework of the European Semester. As part of the Dutch Triple Employment Relations Group, she leads the interdisciplinary Sectorplan ‘Welfare, Participation, Citizenship in a Digital World,’ which brings together researchers from four faculties of Utrecht University. Sonja is also a board member of the Netherlands Empirical Legal Studies Academy and serves on the steering committee of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, which is organizing the annual conference in Utrecht in 2025. Additionally, she is a member of both the editorial board of the Dutch Journal of Law and Employment and the European Journal of Social Security. Her involvement in research extends to being a partner in the Horizon 2020 project addressing in-work poverty, known as WorkYP. Between 2017 and 2021, she held the Jean Monnet Chair in European Social Policy Employment Relations, emphasizing her expertise and contributions to the field of social policy.
Department of Psychology