Kristina Bakkær Simonsen is the project leader of YOPOW. Her research broadly seeks to understand what it means to be part of a national, political community. With a particular interest in young people and their sense of political belonging, she has previously studied how especially ethnic minority youth experience conditions of membership and citizenship.

Louise Halberg Nielsen is a postdoctoral researcher at YOPOW. Her research examines why some groups participate less in politics than others with a key focus on gender and how the political environment shapes men and women’s interest in politics. Methodologically, she combines in-depth interviews, survey experiments, and cross-national surveys to understand these matters.

Lisa Herbig is a postdoctoral researcher at YOPOW. Her research examines how emergency politics, such as border closures, and their communication by political actors affect public opinion and institutional trust. Methodologically, she applies quantitative, experimental, and text-as-data approaches to study political communication and public opinion.

Nanna is a PhD student at YOPOW. She is especially interested in the expectations and norms that minority and majority ethnic boys and girls encounter in the education system. In her PhD project, she examines how pupils learn about norms of political power in school and how these norms shape who are perceived, and who perceive themselves, as (un)suitable for political power.