John Brauer
Position: Lecturer School/office: School of Behavioural, Social and Legal SciencesEmail: am9obi5icmF1ZXI7b3J1LnNl
Phone: +46 19 302147
Room: L2302
About John Brauer
About John
John Brauer is a qualified social worker who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in social work 2022. The thesis concerned labour market policies, focusing on local governments’ efforts to increase employment rates among social assistance claimants.
Research
John Brauer´s research can be divided into three over-arching strands. The first concerns employment and labour market policies. Since 2024 he is principal investigator of a project funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte). The project, on which he collaborates with Katarina Hollertz (University of Gothenburg) and Lisa Wallander (University of Lund), concerns work-capacity assessments. Further, John studies collaboration between municipalities, the Public Employment Services and the Swedish Prison and Probation Service to enhance labour market (re-)integration of people who served time in prison. This project is funded through a personal scholarship by the Åke Wiberg foundation. Since March 2023, John Brauer is principal investigator for an evaluation of an ESF-funded programme delivered in collaboration with civil society organisations and psychosis care.
The second strand concerns the changing role of Swedish public libraries caused by a pressured welfare state. Within this strand, John Brauer investigate collaboration between public libraries and other public as well as non-public organisations when facing visitors in severe social depravation, together with Sofia Lindström Sol and Jenny Johannisson, University of Borås. In 2024, John Brauer will be principal investigator of a project funded by Allmänna Barnhuset where these issues will be studied through a national survey.
The third strand of research is prevention and community social work. Since 2024, John, together with colleagues, collaborates with the municipality of Örebro on an analysis on a programme aimed to coordinate interventions in local areas.
Teaching
John Brauer teaches at the social worker-program at Örebro University.
Collaboration and assignments
In terms of internal research groups, John Brauer is a contact person for Profession and Organization in Social Work, coordinator of Vasa, and a member of Social work and care in a life-course. Concerning external research groups, John Brauer is currently coordinating a regional research environment that gathers social work scholars researching unemployment, social assistance, and debts. He is also a member of Aktiv and the Swedish network on collaboration research.
John Brauer engages in issues of social innovations by representing Örebro University in a regional partnership that gathers regional and municipal representatives as well as civil society organisations. He is also member of the scientific advisory board for a national centre on social innovations funded by the ESF.
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Brauer, J. (2024). Austerity through rescaling and layering in the Swedish welfare state. Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography. [BibTeX]
- Dall, T. & Brauer, J. (2024). Guest editorial: knowledge, skills and values in welfare to work services with vulnerable clients. Nordic Social Work Research, 14 (2), 163-171. [BibTeX]
- Brauer, J. (2021). Labour market policies on a sub-national level. SN Social Sciences, 1. [BibTeX]
- Brauer, J. , Johansson, B. & Bruhn, A. (2021). Social Representations in Street-Level Bureaucracies: Production and Reproduction of Knowledge Within Public Administration. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 25 (2), 99-122. [BibTeX]
Articles, book reviews
- Brauer, J. (2024). Book review: “Social Work, Social Welfare, Unemployment and Vulnerability Among Youth”. Nordic Social Work Research, 14 (2), 236-238. [BibTeX]
- Brauer, J. (2023). Ny bok: Salmonsson, Göran & Spross, Linn (2021). Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, 30 (3), 785-788. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Brauer, J. & Germundsson, P. (2022). Att förstå samverkan utifrån teorin om sociala representationer. In: Åsa Hedberg Rundgren; Charlotte Klinga; Mikael Löfström; Linda Mossberg, Perspektiv på samverkan: Om utmaningar och möjligheter i välfärdens praktik (pp. 131-150). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Brauer, J. (2019). Social representations of unemployment and activation work among street-level bureaucrats. Paper presented at 3rd Conference on Street-level Research in the Employment and Social Policy Area, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 11-13, 2019. [BibTeX]
- Brauer, J. (2018). Professional Autonomy or Organizational Control in Collaboration Management. Paper presented at XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018. [BibTeX]
- Brauer, J. (2018). Professional Representations: a Theoretical Possibility in the Sociology of Professions. Paper presented at XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018. [BibTeX]
- Brauer, J. (2017). Collaboration in unclear policy settings. Paper presented at 2nd Conference on Street-level Research in the Employment and Social Policy Area. Copenhagen, 21-22 June 2017. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Brauer, J. (2022). Labour Market Policies: Structure and Content, Space and Time. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University. [BibTeX]
Manuscripts
Reports
- Johansson, B. & Brauer, J. (2023). En utvärdering av projektet ”Din väg” – ett arbetssätt för att aktivera unga med en kriminell livsstil som varken arbetar eller studerar. Örebro: Örebro University (Working Papers and Reports Social work 32). [BibTeX]
- Brauer, J. (2019). Utvärdering av Kom-jobb: En kvalitativ och programteoretisk utvärdering av Kom-jobb i Örebro kommun. Örebro: Örebro University (Working Papers and Reports Social work 18). [BibTeX]