Research profile

Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen is a legal sociologist and is actively building her academic profile through international research collaboration in the fields of welfare states’ social rights regulations, and encounters between welfare practitioners and citizens in marginalized situation.

Methodologically, her research draws on qualitative and dogmatic methods to examine the interplay between law and social practices.

In her research, Stine emphasises close collaboration with welfare state practitioners and citizens to bridge academic research and practice.

Teaching profile

Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen teaches law at Aalborg University’s Social Worker Education programme, and she supervises students at Aalborg University’s Social Worker Education programme and at the Law programme.

Administrative profile

Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen participates in national and international research networks, including: 

• Working Group on Social Systems and Law under the auspices of the Research Committee of Sociology of Law, RCSL (co-chair)
• Working Group on Legal Consciousness  under the auspices of the Research Committee of Sociology of Law, RCSL (member)
• The Systems Theory Reading Group, an international reading group for sociology of law scholars with an interest in systems theory (co-chair)
• Sociology of Law Group at Aalborg University (co-iniator)