Mikael Goossen

Mikael Goossen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Umeå University. His research focuses on social policy, gender equality, and white-collar crime, with a particular emphasis on welfare privatization, political representation, tax morality, and personality research. He employs quantitative methods and large datasets in his work. Currently affiliated with the University Network for Criminology in Sweden, he also teaches criminology and actively participates in academic networks. His recent STINT Teaching Sabbatical Fellowship (2025) highlights his contributions to academic excellence.

Research interests include the ideological underpinnings of welfare reforms, gender identification's impact on social spending preferences, and the interplay between values and criminal behavior. His publications explore topics such as welfare state legitimacy, anti-immigrant attitudes, and the gender gap in political perceptions across Europe. He is affiliated with research groups in Criminology, Political Sociology, and Social Policy & Welfare, contributing to projects like 'New Maps of Gender Equality' (2022–2024) and 'Welfare Opinion' (2017–2019).

Publications consistently address systemic issues in social policy and criminology, with a focus on Scandinavian contexts. His work bridges quantitative analysis with sociopolitical theory, offering critical insights into governance structures and societal attitudes.