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Ida Seing is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Linköping University, working within the Department of Education and Sociology (APS) under the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning (IBL). She holds a PhD, which she defended in 2014 with her thesis titled "The Activation of Sick Leavers," focusing on health insurance policy practices and the roles of welfare actors and employers in sick leave and rehabilitation processes.
Her research interests span health insurance and labor market policy, the organization of welfare systems, and the development and conditions of working life, with special focus on sick leave, unemployment, and disability. Theoretically, she draws inspiration from new institutional organization theory, governance theories, and sociology of emotions. Methodologically, she primarily employs qualitative approaches including ethnography (participant observations and shadowing) and interview studies.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on healthcare work environments, social insurance systems, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on work and social life. Her work demonstrates consistent attention to power dynamics, control mechanisms, and resistance within welfare bureaucracies and working life contexts.
Seing is actively involved in multiple research projects: she participates in "The review culture and the caseworker: A study of the Swedish Public Employment Service and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency" funded by Riksbanken Jubileumsfond, examining caseworkers' working conditions and professional identity; she leads the IFAU-funded project "Disability coding, wage subsidies and sheltered work" studying experiences of Samhall employment and wage subsidy programs; and she contributes to Forte-funded research on incorporating Danish labor market approaches in Swedish social services.
Her work is associated with research environments including GROWL (Green transition in working life) and the research environment focused on Work and working life, with connections to HELIX Competence Centre and research on Work-related rehabilitation.
