Carolin Schütze
Associate senior lecturer

Presentation

*Academic interests *

Carolin Schütze’s research is located at the intersection of studies of organisations and studies of ethnic and racial relations and migration. Her research includes topics such as discrimination, understanding racial attitudes, professionals attitudes and behaviour and diversity in organisations. Methodologically, she is specialized in quantitative data research with a specific focus on survey design but also survey experiments and analysis which she combines with qualitative data analysis, such as text analysis and interviews.

*Background *

Schütze holds a PhD in Social Work from Lund University (2019). From 2019 to 2024 she was employed as a postdoc at Copenhagen Business School. Since August 2024 she is appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Work at Malmö University. Schütze is also part of Malmö’s Institute for Migration Studies (MIM). Schütze has been a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina (2017), INED in Paris (2019), School of Social Science in Helsinki (2019) and at Tokyo University (2023). She has also attended the ICPSR summer school at Michigan University in the US (2016). She is an Associate Editor for the Nordic Journal of Migration Research and for Sociology Compass. Schütze’s research has appeared in journals such as Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Journal of Professions and Organization, Political Psychology and Australian Journal of Public Administration.

Research Projects:

Currently Schütze is coordinating two projects:

• a project about investigating unequal decision making in the Swedish Public Employment Agency where we make use of a survey experiment (Funded by Forte) • a project about racialized emotional labour in Swedish welfare organisations (Funded by VR)