Alexi Gugushvili

Academic interests

• Socioeconomic and political determinants of health and well-being
• Social stratification, social mobility, and equality of opportunity
• Public opinion, collective memory, and social change 

Courses taught

• SOS4150 – Sociology of Health and Illness
• SOS4100 – Social Inequality in the 21st Century: Egalitarian Norway in Comparative Perspective
• SOS2001 – Modern Social Theory

Education

• 2014 PhD in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
• 2011 Visiting Scholar, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, the United States
• 2008 Hansard Research Scholar, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, the United Kingdom
• 2007 MSc in Policy Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, the United Kingdom
• 2005 MA in International Economic Relations, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia  

Academic Positions held

• 2020-present University of Oslo, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, Associate Professor of Sociology
• 2019-2020 Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology
• 2018-2019 University of Oxford, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Lecturer in Comparative and Quantitative Methods
• 2016-2018 University of Oxford, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• 2015-2016 University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology, Research Associate
• 2014-2015 University of Bremen, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Postdoctoral Researcher

Academic Appointments

• Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Associate Member
• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Affiliated Scholar