Isabell Schierenbeck
About Isabell Schierenbeck
Schierenbeck is a Professor in Political Science at the School of Global Studies (SGS). She is also a Guest Professor ("commuting"), Department of Communication, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Schierenbeck's main research areas are: public policy and implementation (migration, international development cooperation), research design and qualitative methods, and Israeli politics. She have a long lasting interest in research ethics and research safety. She has conducted fieldwork in the Middle East (and previously in Rwanda). She is an expert commentator (on Israeli/Middle Eastern politics) for radio, TV and the daily press.
Schierenbeck's current research is on integration policies (policy and practice), at the city level, in a comparative perspective in Jordan, Sweden and Turkey.
Current research projects
"Refugee Migration and Cities: Social Institutions, Political Governance and Integration in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden (SIPGI)". Together with Andrea Spehar (PI), Mine Eder, Alexander Jung, Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust and Josepha Wessels. Funded by the Swedish Research Council (2019-2024).
“Geopolitics at the margins: Exploring emergent political orders across the Red Sea”. Together with Jan Bachmann and Bizusew Ashagrie (Schierenbeck PI). Funded by the Swedish Research Council (2022-2026).
"Transnational civil society and foreign policy: The role of diasporas in comparative perspective". Together with Lisbeth Aggestam (PI) and Arne Wackenhut. Funded by the Swedish Research Council (2022-2026).
Teaching and tutoring
Current PhD supervision: Emanuelle Brandström Arellano, Flavia Fusco and Alexander Jung.
Completed PhD supervisions: Carin Berg, Wayne S. Coetzee, Anna K. Forsman, Meike Froitzheim, Marie Jeanne Nzayisenga, Arne Wackenhut.
Teaching: Research design and qualitative methods (BA, MA and PhD), Middle Eastern politics (BA).
Other positions and responsibilities
Chair of the research seminar in Peace and Development
Advisory Board Member, Advisory Group for Global Engagement, Karolinska Institute (KI)
Board Member, Centre on Global Migration (CGM)
Board Member, Portfolio Group "Global development and International relations", Norwegian Research Council
Board Member, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
Other
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Navigating through depoliticisation: international stakeholders and refugee reception in Jordan and
Turkey
Alexander Jung, Ezgi Irgil, Isabell Schierenbeck, Andrea Spehar
Third World Quarterly - 2023 -
Lessons for Safer Fieldwork Practices from the Covid
Pandemic
Ellen Lust, Isabell Schierenbeck
Qualitative & Multi-Method Research - 2022 -
Peace research meets implementation studies: the role of implementing
actors
Meike Froitzheim, Isabell Schierenbeck, Fredrik Söderbaum
International Relations - 2022 -
Migration i välfärdsstaten. Att implementera
integrationspolitik
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Safer Field Research in the Social Sciences: A Guide to Human and Digital Security in Hostile
Environments
Janis Grimm, Kevin Koehler, Ellen Lust, Ilyas Saliba, Isabell Schierenbeck
2020 -
Låst läge i splittrat
Israel
Isabell Schierenbeck
2020 -
Collaboration or renunciation? The role of traditional medicine in mental health care in Rwanda and Eastern Cape Province, South
Africa
Isabell Schierenbeck, Peter Johansson, Lena Andersson, Gunilla Krantz, Joseph Ntaganira
Global Public Health - 2018 -
Defected Civilian Civil Servants: Perceptions of Regime Strenght in
Syria
Isabell Schierenbeck, Gustav Rudd
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies - 2018 -
National ownership and donor involvement: an aid paradox illustrated by the case of
Rwanda
Malin Hasselskog, Peter Mugume, Eric Ndushabandi, Isabell Schierenbeck
Third World Quarterly - 2017 -
The Ownership Paradox: Continuity and
Change
Malin Hasselskog, Isabell Schierenbeck
Forum for Development Studies - 2017 -
Food (in)security, human (in)security, women’s (in)security: State policies and local experiences in rural
Rwanda
Marie Jeanne Nzayisenga, Camilla Orjuela, Isabell Schierenbeck
African Security - 2016 -
Questioning the negotiation assumption. The case of VUP and HSP in
Rwanda
Malin Hasselskog, Isabell Schierenbeck, Peter Mugume, Eric Ndushabandi
3rd Joint Nordic Development Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, 5-6 November 2015 - 2015 -
The struggle versus the song: the local turn in
peacebuilding
Caroline Hughes, Joakim Öjendal, Isabell Schierenbeck
Third World Quarterly - 2015 -
Beyond the local turn divide: lessons learnt, relearnt and
unlearnt
Isabell Schierenbeck
Third World Quarterly - 2015 -
National policy in local practice: the case of
Rwanda
Malin Hasselskog, Isabell Schierenbeck
Third World Quarterly - 2015 -
Political Leadership and Quality of Government. Restraining Elites at Nascent
Statehood
Ulrika Möller, Isabell Schierenbeck
Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government - 2015 -
From Small-Scale Resistance to Full-Blown
Mobilization
Arne Wackenhut, Michael Schulz, Isabell Schierenbeck
ISA Annual Conference, Toronto - 2014 -
Health care practitioners´perceptions of public mental health care in the Eastern Cape, South
Africa
Dalena van Rooyen, Kegan Topper, David Morton, Joanitha Strupmher, Isabell Schierenbeck, Lena Andersson
Journal of Psychology in Africa - 2014 -
Barriers to accessing mental health care in the Eastern Cape province of South
Africa
J. Strumpher, R. M. van Rooyen, K. Topper, Lena Andersson, D. Morton, Isabell Schierenbeck
Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery - 2014 -
Political Leadership, Nascent Statehood and Democracy: A Comparative
Study
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Understanding the role of social capital for mental wellbeing among older
adults
A. K. Forsman, C. Herberts, F. Nyqvist, K. Wahlbeck, Isabell Schierenbeck
Ageing & Society - 2013 -
Safeguarding a Child Perspective in Asylum Reception: Dilemmas of Children’s Case Workers in
Sweden
Lisa Ottosson, Marita Eastmond, Isabell Schierenbeck
Journal of Refugee Studies - 2013 -
Barriers to accessing and receiving mental health care in Eastern Cape, South
Africa
Isabell Schierenbeck, Peter Johansson, Lena Andersson, Dalena van Rooyen
Health and Human Rights - 2013 -
Winds of Change: From Small-Scale Resistance to Full-Blown
Mobilization
Isabell Schierenbeck, Michael Schulz, Arne Wackenhut
ISA, April 3-6 - 2013 -
Help-seeking behaviour, barriers to care and experiences of care among persons with depression in Eastern Cape, South
Africa
Lena Andersson, Isabell Schierenbeck, Johanita Strumpher, Gunilla Krantz, Kegan Topper, Gunilla Backman, Esmeralda Ricks, Dalena van Rooyen
Journal of Affective Disorders - 2013 -
Structural and cognitive social capital and depression among older adults in two Norcic
regions
A. K. Forsman, F. Nyqvist, Isabell Schierenbeck, Yngve Gustafson, K. Wahlbeck
Aging & Mental Health - 2012 -
Key to Democracy? Political Leadership at Nascent
Statehood
Ulrika Möller, Isabell Schierenbeck
EPSA, Dublin, 16-18 juni 2011 - 2011 -
Key to Democracy? Political Leadership and Nascent
Statehood
Isabell Schierenbeck, Ulrika Möller
ECPR Joint Sessions - 2011 -
Psychosocial Interventions for the Prevention of Depression in Older Adults: Systematic Review and
Meta-Analysis
Isabell Schierenbeck, Anna Forsman, Kristian Wahlbeck
Journal of Aging and Health - 2010 -
Medicalization of sickness
absence
Isabell Schierenbeck
Work - 2010 -
Political Leadership from Nationhood to Statehood: Exploring the Role of
Charisma
Isabell Schierenbeck, Ulrika Möller
ASEN Conference, London, 13-15 April, 2010 - 2010 -
Hidden Treasure or Sinking Ship? Exploring the Study of Political
Leadership
Isabell Schierenbeck, Ulrika Möller
International Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 17-10, 2010 - 2010 -
Sense of Community. Trust, Hope and Worries in the Welfare
State
Isabell Schierenbeck, Bo Rothstein, Helena Stensöta, Jonas Frykman, Kjell Hansen, Mia-Marie Hammarlin
Ethnologia Europaea - 2009 -
Psychosocial interventions for prevention of depression in older
people
Isabell Schierenbeck, Anna Forsman, Kristian Wahlbeck, E Jane-Ilopes
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - 2009 -
Hidden Treasure or Sinking Ship? Diagnosing the Study of Political
Leadership
Ulrika Möller, Isabell Schierenbeck
QoG working paper - 2009 -
Diplomati är det som
behövs
Isabell Schierenbeck
Göteborgs-Posten - 2009 -
Power, Identity and Modernity. Individualisation and Destabilisation in a Globalised
World
Ulf Bjereld, Ann-Marie Ekengren, Isabell Schierenbeck
International Review of Sociology, 2009, No 2 - 2009 -
Sense of Community: Trust, Hope and Worries in the Welfare
State
Isabell Schierenbeck, Helena Stensöta
Statsvetenskapliga förbundets årsmöte, Uppsala 26-28 september 2008. - 2008 -
Sjuk av arbete? Om arbetsoförmåga och
sjukdom
Isabell Schierenbeck, Frida Boräng, Bo Rothstein
Vahlne Westerhäll, Lotta (red.) Arbets(o)förmåga – ur ett mångdisciplinärt perspektiv. Stockholm: Sandtérus Förlag. - 2008 -
Jämförande
politik
Jessica Lindvert, Isabell Schierenbeck
2008 -
The Road to Democracy: Exploring the Impact of Leadership
Guidance
Ulrika Möller, Isabell Schierenbeck
Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift - 2008 -
Fredsplaner och protester i
Israel
Isabell Schierenbeck
www.utrikesbloggen.se - 2007 -
Abbas och Israel har mycket att
förlora
Isabell Schierenbeck
www.utrikesbloggen.se - 2007 -
Nu behöver Fatah
pengar
Isabell Schierenbeck
www.utrikesbloggen.se - 2007 -
Möte mellan människa och
byråkrati
Isabell Schierenbeck
Analyserar - 2007 -
Israel mellan sionism och
välfärdspolitik
Isabell Schierenbeck
Alba nr. 2. - 2006 -
Freden mer avlägsen än på
länge
Isabell Schierenbeck
Göteborgs-Posten 30 mars 2006. - 2006 -
Palestinierna får
vänta
Isabell Schierenbeck
Göteborgs-Posten 30 juli 2006 - 2006 -
Vem förvaltar kunskapen om sjukdom? Diskursiva praktiker i
sjukskrivningsprocessen.
Isabell Schierenbeck
Presenterat vid Den svenska sjukan: central styrning och lokal variation. Stockholm 23-24 augusti 2006 - 2006 -
Det splittrade Israel? Politiska och sociala
skiljelinjer
Isabell Schierenbeck
2006 -
Globalization, Migration and Multiple Citizenships: The Case of
Israel
Isabell Schierenbeck
International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1-5 March - 2005 -
I dörren står
byråkraten
Isabell Schierenbeck
Invandrare och minoriteter - 2004 -
Den europeiska judenheten mellan öst och
väst
Isabell Schierenbeck
Svanberg, I. & Söhrman, I. (red). Minoriteter i Europa - 2004 -
En välfärdsstat för alla? Frontlinjebyråkrater och
invandrarklienter
Isabell Schierenbeck
Engagemang, mångfald och integration : om möjligheter och hinder för politisk jämlikhet : rapport från Integrationspolitiska maktutredningen, Statens offentliga utredningar, SOU - 2004 -
Bakom välfärdsstatens
dörrar
Isabell Schierenbeck
2003