Research

Hanne Warming is Professor of Sociology and Co‑Director of the Childism Institute. From 2011 to 2025, she headed the research group Social Dynamics and Change at Roskilde University. Her research lies within childhood and youth studies, with a particular focus on children’s and young people’s wellbeing, coping, and perspectives. Methodologically, she primarily works with mixed methods or qualitative, ethnographic and co‑creative approaches in close collaboration with practice partners and with children and young people themselves.

Since 2012, Warming has led a number of major research projects and participated in EU‑funded and comparative projects as well as the COST network (A19 on children’s welfare). She has supervised six postdocs and twelve PhD students to completion and has served on PhD assessment committees in Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Ireland, and Australia. In addition, she has acted as reviewer and panel member for a wide range of research foundations, including the Velux Foundation, the Obel Family Foundation, the Flanders Research Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and research councils in Israel, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, and the EU.

Her publications include 12 academic books, 56 peer‑reviewed articles, 41 other academic articles and book chapters, the editorship of five anthologies and five special issues (plus one ongoing), as well as 18 research reports. She has also delivered numerous keynotes and presentations for academic audiences, practitioners, organisations, and policymakers, and she disseminates research through freely accessible videos and podcasts.

EDUCATION

PhD in Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark, 18 January 2001 Cand.scient.soc. . in Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 19 May 1993

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS SINCE 2008

2019 – present: Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University 2011 – 2019: Professor (with special responsibilities), Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University 2009 – 2011: Associate Professor, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University 2008 – 2009: Senior Researcher, Danish Institute of Governmental Research

LEAVE

2004 – 2006: Two years of part‑time care leave, 1 August 2004 – 31 July 2006 1996 – 1997: Parental leave, 1 October 1996 – 30 September 1997

AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS (selected)

2025: Member of the Niels Klim Prize Committee 2023: Appointed expert for the OECD 21st Century Children team 2021: Research Prize, Vanførefonden 2020: Member of the Nordic Council on Disability, Nordic Council of Ministers 2020: Member of the Advisory Board, Childism Institute, Rutgers University, Camden 2016: Included in the European Expert Database of Outstanding Female Academics, “AcademiaNet” 2014: Advisory expert for the Danish National Board of Social Services 2011: Member of the Danish National Council for Children 2008: Expert affiliated with the EU project “Indicators on Children’s Rights” 2005: Research Prize, Joint Council for Child Issues (Fællesrådet for Børnesager)

RESEARCH LEADERSHIP OF EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS (selected)

2026–2030: Improving Wellbeing through Counselling for Children and Young People, total budget DKK 8.5 million; funded by DFF with DKK 7.0 million 2024–2028: Limit Setting and Coercion in Professional Work with Children in Vulnerable Positions, total budget DKK 7.1 million; funded by DFF with DKK 6.2 million 2023–2025: Child and Youth Counselling (subproject 1 + feasibility study), funded by TrygFonden with DKK 3.2 million 2023–2026: Children’s Green Transition Citizenship, total budget DKK 3.6 million; funded by DFF with DKK 2.8 million 2021–2024: Strengthening Children’s Participation in the Danish Family Law System, total budget DKK 8.6 million; funded by the Velux Foundation with DKK 6.0 million 2018–2023: Living with Mobility Disability – A Child and Youth Perspective, total budget DKK 6.6 million; funded by the Bevica Foundation with DKK 4.7 million 2014–2018: Children in Court, funded by the Egmont Foundation with DKK 4.3 million 2014–2017: Citizenship on the Edge, funded by FSE with DKK 3.1 million 2012–2017: Deviation as a Potential Resource, total budget DKK 9.0 million; funded by the Obel Family Foundation with DKK 4.9 million

NETWORKS (selected)

• CEDIF (Centre for Daycare Research) and CELFS (Centre for Everyday Life of Families in the Welfare State), Roskilde University • Nordic Youth Research Network, since 2015 • Research Network: Children, Youth and Vulnerability, since 2024 (national network) • CREAN: Children’s Rights Erasmus Academic Network, since 2012 • ISA Research Network on Childhood Sociology, since 2007 • ESA Research Network on Sociology of Children and Childhood, since 2007; network coordinator 2012–14; advisory board member since 2014 • Childhoodprism Research Network, since 2018; founder and coordinator • Childism Research Network, since 2020; advisory board member since 2020; Co‑Director since 2022

SUPERVISION OF PHD STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS

• 12 PhD students completed + 3 international visiting PhD students + 7 ongoing • 6 postdocs

OTHER ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2021: Completed course in Research Project Management, Roskilde University

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Co‑founder of De Anbragtes Vilkår (DAV) and Joannahuset. Board experience from DAV, Danner, Børns Vilkår, and Joannahuset. Experience advising various voluntary and public organisations in the fields of children and youth, as well as adults in vulnerable positions.