My research interests are within economic and social history and business history. My main research areas concerns (1) formal education and practical learning for innovation and economic performance, and how these played out in different industries and (2) access to education, educational opportunity and the historical impact of education on social mobility, and differences in this regard between genders and regions. I am the program leader of The value of social background, education, academic performance and work experience: Following the life course of Scandinavian high school, technical school and university-level graduate cohorts 1880-1920 funded by Handelsbankens Forskningsstifelser where we use Scandinavian biographies as main sources.