Anette Borchorst is a Danish professor of both Political Gender Research at CCWS Center for Comparative Welfare Studies and the Center for Labor Market Research (CARMA), the Department of Political Science at Aalborg University. Also, she is Head of the Department of Political Science at Aalborg University.

Education

Borchorst graduated in

social science Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the ...

from

Aarhus University Aarhus University (, abbreviated AU) is a public research university. Its main campus is located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Group, the Guild, and Ut ...

in 1979. In 1984 she obtained a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

from the Faculty of Social Sciences at

Aalborg University Aalborg University (AAU) is an international public university with campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1974, the university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variety of subje ...

Career

Since 2008, Borchorst has been a professor at the

and has been head of the Department of

Political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

at Aalborg University since 2016. Borchorst specializes in gender, power and politics in Denmark and the Nordic countries, as well as equality and welfare policy in Denmark and the Nordic countries. Borchorst has been the research leader on several research projects. This includes, for the Women's Constitution, Gender, Democracy, and Welfare project 1915–2015. Also, for the 2014 GRIP research program, which was funded by the VELUX Foundation. Borchorst has also been a member of the Prime Minister's Equality Council from 1988 to 1994 and chaired the Equality Council in Research at the Ministry of Research from 1997 to 1998.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Borchorst, Anette 1951 births Living people Aalborg University alumni Academic staff of Aalborg University Aarhus University alumni Danish women academics