Anja Eleveld is associate professor social law at the VU University. She graduated in Labour Law (cum laude) (University of Amsterdam), Political Science (University of Amsterdam) and Cultural Anthropology (Utrecht University). In 2012 she obtained her PhD at the Law Faculty of Leiden University.
Anja conducts social-legal research in precarious work and poverty. In her most recent research she investigates the ways in which social security law in European welfare states can adapt to the challenges posed by climate change. Anja's multi-disciplinary research has been published in various leading international and national journals in the field of labour law and social security law, social-legal studies, and policy & political studies.
She is the chair of the task force Emprical Legal Studies at the Law faculty, the leader of the Research Programme Rights, Regulation and the Responsible Government and the director of the Fair Expertise Centre at the social law department.
In 2021 Anja Eleveld received the Levenbach prize for the best international article in the field of labour law and social security law (January 2018-September 2020).
In 2017 the Ph.D thesis of Anja Eleveld was nominated for the dissertation prize (2012-2016) in the area of labour law and social security law (shortlist of five dissertations).
2023 NWO XS grant (Dutch organisation for science), research project 'The use of solicited oral diaries in research on workers who are vulnerable to subtle abuse and exploitation' (August 2023-August 2024)
2020 Grant for a NIAS-Gak fellowship, research project 'The meaningfulness of unfree work' (Feb-June 2021)
In 2015 NWO Veni grant (Dutch organization for Science), research project ‘The activating welfare state and the recipient of social assistance: the birth of a new worker in need of new rules?’ (2016-2020)
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