Who are we?
The CAPABLE project team is lead by Dr. Mara Yerkes, a social scientist with expertise in comparative social policy and social inequalities, in particular related to gender. She is joined by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from multiple social scientific disciplines and a dynamic group of interns and student assistants from all over Europe. The core CAPABLE team consists of three PhD students (Carla Brega, Samuel Briones, and Mehri Zamanbin), a postdoctoral reseracher (Karen van Hedel), a project assistant (Robin Buning), and a student assistant (Roos Knopper). Want to know more about Mara, core team members, or other people working in the CAPABLE team? Check out the profiles below.
Mara Yerkes
Mara Yerkes is principal investigator and project leader of the CAPABLE project. She is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the Department of…
Carla Brega
Carla Brega is a PhD candidate in the CAPABLE project and will focus on work-life balance policies in Spain. Carla completed her BSc in Sociology at the University of Chile…
Samuel Briones
Samuel Briones is a PhD candidate in the CAPABLE project and will focus on the Slovenian case study. Samuel holds a BSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Chile…
Robin Buning
Robin Buning is project assistant in the CAPABLE project. He is responsible for the project’s administration and for the external communication channels, and acts as a point of…
María Jesús Chaparro
María Jesús Chaparro completed her degree in Sociology at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile in 2004 and is finishing her Master’s degree in Sociology at the University…
Karen van Hedel
Karen van Hedel is a postdoctoral researcher in the CAPABLE project and focuses on cross-national analyses of work-life balance and (self-reported) health and well-being using….
Lydia Hiraide
Lydia Hiraide is currently a PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London where her thesis focuses on intersectionality in European environmental activism. She…
Ana Jagodic
Ana Jagodic is a researcher and teaching assistant at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences. She is a PhD candidate in Sociology, researching multigenerational…
Roosmarijn Knopper
Roosmarijn Knopper is an Interdisciplinary Social Sciences student at Utrecht University. As a student assistant for Mara Yerkes, she will be focusing on data analysis and other…
Laura Mrčela
Laura Mrčela is a sociology student currently enrolled in the Bachelor’s program Analytical Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. Her research…
John Wooldridge
John Wooldridge is a PhD student at the University of Leeds undertaking a comparative case study project about drug treatment in prison. Prior to this, he completed a MSc…
Mehri Zamanbin
Mehri Zamanbin is a PhD candidate in the CAPABLE project and will focus on work-life balance policies in the United Kingdom. Mehri holds a BSc in Political Science (focussing…
Alumni
Oksana Dorofeeva (intern September-December 2020)
Silvia Filippi (intern November 2019-April 2020)
Catalina Ganga León (intern February-May 2020)
Hannelore van Hoffen (student assistant March-September 2019)
Bryn Hummel (intern February-June 2020)
Katharina Meitinger (methodological expert September 2019-November 2020)
Clarissa Skinner (research assistant April-May 2019)
National Partners
Hungary
Judit Takács
MTA TK / Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Italy
Manuela Naldini
University of Turin
Poland
Anna Kurowska
University of Warsaw
Slovenia
Jana Javornik
Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
United Kingdom
Jana Javornik
Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
Sweden
Barbara Hobson
Stockholm University (emeritus)
Spain
Margarita Leon
Institut de Govern i Polítiques Públiques IGOP – University Autonoma de Barcelona
Advisory Board
Prof. Pearl Dykstra
Professor of Empirical Sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
Liz Gosme MA
Director of COFACE Families Europe
Prof. Bjørn Hvinden
Research Professor and Managing Director of Norwegian Social Research
Prof. Judith Treas
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis at the University of California, Irvine
