Monika Berg
Title: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesPhone: +46 19 303672
Room: F3277
Research subject
Research environments
About Monika Berg
Monika Berg is associate professor in sociology and has a doctoral degree in political science. She is part of the Environmental Sociology Section at Örebro University.
Research
Monika Berg current research focuses on environmental policy, the interaction between science and policy and the handling of ethical conflicts when governing society towards a sustainable transition. In addition, Berg has recently headed a research project on the organisation of the welfare state and its implications for institutional trust.
Berg received her Ph.D. in Political Science at Örebro University. Her thesis is within the field of policy studies and explores the dynamics of policy formation, with a particular focus on problem formulation and knowledge usage. The empirical focus is on the policy field of local crime prevention and safety policy in Sweden.
Teaching
Monika Berg is responsible for the master courses Theoretical perspectives on sustainable development, and for the advanced course in Sociology.
Research projects
- Green public ethics: exploring and elaborating value conflict handling of public administrators
- The shaping of environmental expertise. Institutionalized expertise, boundary organizations and global environmental matters
- Conceptual development of environmental sociology
- The legitimacy of the welfare state - New mechanisms of trust in a hollow state development?