Klaus Petersen is Director of DaWS
Research Areas: Welfare state history/The Nordic welfare model/ History and social science
Special Research Focus: Social Democracy and the welfare state/ Difussion and transnational history of the welfare state/ Family Policy/ War and Welfare States/ Pensions and retirement policy/ Concepts and language of the welfare state.
Current projects: War and Social Reform/Danish Social Policy in the Shadow of Nazi-Germany/ The comparative history of the concept “welfare state”/NICE-welfare/"Velfærdshistorier fra kanten"