About

I’m a PhD candidate at the department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) in the Netherlands.

My work centers around discrimination and prejudice against different minority groups, and what effect this have on societal inequalities, as well as life-course outcomes such as education, income, and health. In my research I make use of various quantitative methods such as regression analysis, and computational methods including machine-learning and large-scale text analysis.

My PhD project is placed in the Horizon Europe funded project EQUALSTRENGTH which investigates cumulative and structural forms of discrimination, outgroup prejudice and hate crimes against ethnic, racial and religious minorities. EQUALSTRENGTH is a consortium of ten instiutions in nine European countries: Belgium, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. More information about EQUALSTRENGTH can be found here.

I am also working on improving robustness of educational mobility research, my master’s thesis can be found here. A working paper titled “How Robust are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?” that I am writing together with Per Engzell (UCL) is available at Socarxiv here.

Previously I have worked as a research assistant in a project on the role of recrutiment for gender differences in Swedish universities, led by Anna Sandberg and Eva Ranehill. You can read more about that project here.

You can get in touch via Mastodon or email e.o.stromberg[at]uva.nl