Research output per year
Research output per year
PhD
Universitetsvej 1, 04.1
DK-4000 Roskilde
Denmark
Summary
Development economist with extensive experience in survey design, data analysis, policy-oriented research and project coordination. Research interests revolve around labour market issues with a particular focus on regulatory frameworks, employment promotion and informality in the global south. New research areas cover environmental issues, including sustainable water systems in high informality contexts. Geographical focus is East Asia (mostly Vietnam) and Africa (Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania).
Ongoing Project
Currently part of a DANIDA financed project SWASH (Sustainable Wastewater Systems for Ghana). SWASH delivers new research knowledge and capacity strengthening for Ghanaian institutions to achieve water sustainability. The 3 year project undertakes extensive fieldwork in the rapidly growing coastal city of Tema, east of Ghana’s capital Accra. Water governance comprises a highly complex social and political field of diverse public, private, state, and non-state actors and institutions. These often pursue competing interests and are organized according to different logics and rationales.
SWASH contributes to achieving viable solutions by investigating the role of informality in government’s efforts to achieve sustainable urban water systems and undertaking a holistic and interdisciplinary analysis of different sites and institutions and approaches water system development as an inherently non-linear and political process, as well as necessarily technical, natural, and economic.
Past Project
Involved in a large research project (2016-2022) Informal Worker Organization and Social Protection (SPIWORK), a joint research initiative between Roskilde University, University of Nairobi, Kenya and Mzumbe University in Tanzania. SPIWORK was funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ends in 2022. SPIWORK has produced an edited volume and several articles and policy briefs.
Teaching
Courses include Political Economy of Development, International Political Economy, Labour in the Global Economy, Global Political Economy of the Green Transition and Informality in the Global South. Moreover, supervision of various bachelor projects in International Studies and masters thesis in Global Development Studies.
Censor in economics at Copenhagen University and Århus University
Other activities
Consultant for the ILO, UNESCAP, World Bank and UNU-WIDER.
Member of the ESRC/GCRF Strategic Network on Legal Regulation of Unacceptable Forms of Work (UFW): https://www.dur.ac.uk/law/policyengagement/ufw/
Regular reviewer for World Development, Review of Development Economics, European Journal of Development Research and the International Labour Review.
Employment Record
2016 – Present Post.Doc/Assistant Professor at RUC/ISE
2013 – 2016 Consultant at the International Labour Organization
2015 – 2015 Consultant at the World Bank and UNDP
2014 – 2016 External lecturer at Danish Institute for Study Abroad
2009 – 2013 PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Economics
2008 – 2009 Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Economics
2007 – 2008 Economist at the International Labour Organization
2007 – 2007 Technical officer at CEOSS (NGO), Cairo, Egypt
2003 – 2006 Assistant to the Director at the UN Research Institute for Social Development
2001 – 2003 Researcher at the International Labour Organization
Education
2009 – 2013 PhD in Economics, Dept. of Economics, University of Copenhagen,
2000 – 2001 MSc in International Development, University of Bath, UK
1997 – 2000 BA in Economics, Politics and Philosophy, University of York, UK
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Working paper › Research › peer-review
Stacey, P. A., Oteng-Ababio, M., Rasmussen, J., Torm, N., Grant, R., Fynn, I. & Fuseini, I.
01/10/2022 → 30/09/2025
Project: Research
Riisgaard, L., Torm, N., Mitullah, W., Kinyondo, G., Kamau, A., Indimuli, R. & Gervas, A.
09/10/2017 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research
Jacob Rasmussen (Speaker), Paul Austin Stacey (Organizer), Nina Torm (Speaker), Maja Jeppesen (Speaker) & Brenda Chalfin (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
Nina Torm (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Lecture and oral contribution
Nina Torm (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
Nina Torm (Participant), Lone Riisgaard (Participant) & Winnie Mitullah (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Nina Torm (Participant) & Lone Riisgaard (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course