Carina Mood

Carina Mood is a professor of Sociology in the Level-of-living team at SOFI, Stockholm University, and research leader for the theme ”The socially sustainable society” at the Institute for Futures Studies. She is an Associate Member at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and a fellow of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of The European Academy of Sociology.

Carina does research on poverty, inequality, integration, intergenerational transmission of advantage, and the welfare and well-being of children and youth. See Research for more information.

She currently heads the following research programs and projects:

• • Intergenerational mobility: Shifting the focus. Funded by Vetenskapsrådet.
  • Optimism trap or optimism springboard. Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Together with Michael Tåhlin, Martin Hällsten and Katarina Boye, Carina heads the Level of Living Survey (LNU), which is a large-scale longitudinal and nationally representative survey of the level of living in the Swedish population. She is also deputy principal investigator of the ERC-funded project IneQint.