Peter Hedström#
Membership Number: | 2934 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
Elected: | 2011 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Homepage(s): | http://www.iffs.se/en/researchers/peter-hedstrom |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2011 Director, Institute for Futures Studies
- 2003 – 2011 Official Fellow and Professor, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
- 2009 - 2010 Visiting Research Professor, Singapore Management University
- 2008 – 2009 Dean, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University
- 1989 – 2003 Professor, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
- 1987 – 1989 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
- 1981–1987 Research Associate, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
- 1983 – 1986 Research Associate, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and MIT
- 1983 Instructor, Harvard University, Department of Sociology
- 1980 Research Fellow, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and MIT
- 1978 – 1980 Research Assistant, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University
Fields of Scholarship
- Analytical sociology
- Social networks
- Sociological theory
- Social simulations
- Labour markets
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Elected Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2007 Elected member of the Sociological Research Association
- 2005 – present Secretary General of the International Institute of Sociology
- 2004 – present Permanent Non-Resident Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for the Advanced Studies
- 2007 Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center
- 2006 Recipient of the James S. Coleman Book Award from the American Sociological Association for Dissecting the Social: On the Principles of Analytical Sociology
- 2004 – 2008 President of the European Academy of Sociology
- 2000 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology
- 1994, 2001– 2003 Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies
- 1998 – 2000 President of the Swedish Sociological Association