1. Can you briefly describe your role as an accompanying researcher in this project?
Together with Ulla-Karin Schön, I have an assignment to investigate the outreach work in Lumena aimed at people who are neither working nor studying.
2. What are the most interesting or unexpected insights you have seen so far in your research?
Like many terms we often use - outreach, prevention, etc. - it is important that we define what is meant by outreach. Who should be reached out to, by whom, in what way and why? These are important questions to ask when planning an outreach activity. It is interesting to see how this has different impacts in a project as large as Lumena.
3. What are the main challenges you have encountered in your role as an accompanying researcher?
We have not really encountered many challenges, except when employees do not see themselves doing any outreach work. But even then, we have had interesting discussions about how the employees in Lumena see accessibility to support and interventions for the individuals they work with.
More about Joakim
Joakim Tranquist has a Master's degree in Political Science from Lund University and is an evaluator. He has extensive experience in planning, conducting and reporting on evaluation projects on labour market policy interventions at both the structural and individual level, as well as extensive experience in following up projects funded by the ESF and coordination associations.
Joakim is part of the research team consisting of Alexandru Panican, Renate Minas and Ulla-Karin Schön and the team is coordinated by Tranquist Evaluation. Together with Ulla-Karin Schön, Joakim will take a closer look at how to conduct outreach activities and coordinate support from different actors to promote more people reaching work or full studies.
Picture of Joakim Tranquist. Photo: Swedish ESF Council
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