Katren Rogers

Katren Rogers joined InIIS as a postdoctoral researcher in February 2024. She studied International and Global Studies at the University of Sydney (2009–2012) and Economic and Social History at the University of Cambridge (2014–2015). She defended her doctoral dissertation in Political Science at Lund University in December 2022. Her dissertation, After Asylums and Orphanages, considered the effect of party politics on the types of care policies that replaced large, custodial care institutions in advanced capitalist countries.

Katren’s research has focused mainly on comparative social policy. She has also worked on public finance and education policy at the New Zealand Treasury (2016–2018), and on peace and conflict analysis at the Institute for Economics and Peace (2023).