Jens Zinn

Professor, Gäst|Visiting Professor

  • Professional title: Visiting Professor
  • Other title: Associate Professor
  • Department: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSV)
  • Email: Jens.Zinn@miun.se
  • Research centers: Risk and Crisis Research Centre

Background

Jens Zinn is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

During 2016–2017, Jens Zinn will be a part time Visiting Professor at Mid Sweden University.

Area of interest

How people in modern societies experience and respond to pressing social, economic, natural and technological challenges is a central research interest of Jens Zinn.

He is an expert in interdisciplinary risk research and has founded research networks within the International Sociological Association (2006) and European Sociological Association (2005).

Other information

In 2015 the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded him the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award for his scholarly achievements.

Most well-known publications are Social theories of risk and uncertainty with Blackwell (2008), Heading into the unknown: Everyday strategies for managing risk and uncertainty (2008) in Health, Risk & Society, and with P. Taylor-Gooby Risk in social science (2006) with Oxford University Press.

Extra contact information

Further information and a list of publications can be found at this website. 

Publications

Articles in journals
Chapters in books
Collections (editor)

Articles in journals

Zinn, J. (2019). The meaning of risk-taking – key concepts and dimensions. Journal of Risk Research, vol. 22: 1, pp. 1-15.    

Chapters in books

Zinn, J. & Olofsson, A. (2018). Concluding Thoughts and Perspectives for Interdisciplinary Risk Research. In Researching Risk and Uncertainty : Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies. Palgrave Macmillan (critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty). pp. 367-375.  

Zinn, J. & Olofsson, A. (2018). Introduction. In Researching Risk and Uncertainty : Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies. Palgrave Macmillan (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty). pp. 1-28.  

Zinn, J. (2018). Utilising Corpus Linguistic Tools for Analysing Social Change in Risk. In Researching Risk and Uncertainty : Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies. Palgrave Macmillan (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty). pp. 337-366.  

Collections (editor)

Olofsson, A. (ed.) & Zinn, J. (ed.) (2018). Researching Risk and Uncertainty : Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies. Palgrave Macmillan (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty ).