Academic background:
Master in International Security, Institute d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). PhD student at the University of Gothenburg.
Research areas:
Responsible business | Decent Work | Digitalization of work
Kristin Jesnes is a researcher at Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Norway. Her main areas of research are non-standard forms of work (including platform work) and industrial relations.
Jesnes is also a Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. In her PhD work, she explores how platform work affects different labour markets, and how different institutional contexts forms how platform work develops.
Between 2017 and 2021, she coordinated the work of a Nordic group of researchers on platform work, culminating in the report “Platform work in the Nordic models: issues, cases and responses”. Her research on platform work is published in the Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies and in A Modern Guide to Labour and the Platform Economy.
Since 2022, Jesnes is in the Steering Committee of IWPLMS (The International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation).
