Faculty

The BIGSSS faculty consists of more than 60 members who function as supervisors and advisors for our PhD fellows. Please find below their research profiles, publications and contact information.

Methods Center Faculty

Inhouse Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

Visiting Faculty

Faculty

Faculty

Dr. Mandy Boehnke
Universität Bremen
Vice President for International Affairs, Academic Qualification, and Diversity (UB)
Tel.: +49 421 218 66430

Research Interests

  • Social Inequality
  • Families in the Context of Migration
  • Intergenerational Transmission of Value and Transitions

Prof. Dr. Klaus Boehnke
Constructor University
Methods Center Chair (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 200 3401

Research Interests

  • Political Socialization (Xenophobia, Right-wing extremism)
  • Value Change and Value Transmission
  • Social Cohesion


Methods Expertise

  • Analysis of Variance
  • Latent Growth Modeling
  • Nonparametric Statistics
  • Structural Equation Modeling

Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter
Universität Bremen / Institut für Informationsmanagement Bremen GmbH (ifib)
Tel.: +49 (0)421 218 56571

Research Interests

  • Information Management and Educational Technologies
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Mediatization Research

Prof. Dr. Hilke Brockmann
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3491

Research Interests

  • Life Course Research
  • Social Inequality
  • Ageing Societies
  • Quality of Life & Subjective Well-being


Methods Expertise

  • Panel Analysis
  • Time-series Analysis

Prof. Dr. Adele Diederich
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3431

Prof. Dr. Irene Dingeldey
Universität Bremen, Institut für Arbeit und Wirtschaft (iaw)
Tel.: +49 421 218 61710

Research Interests

  • (Comparative) Family Politics Analysis
  • (Comparative) Labor Market Analysis
  • Industrial Relations

Prof. Sonja Drobnič, Ph.D.
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 66360

Research Interests

  • Quality of Life, Quality of Work, Work-Life Balance
  • Family, Household, Gender
  • Social Capital and Social Cohesion
  • Life Course Research


Methods Expertise

  • Event History (Survival) Analysis
  • Questionnaire Construction
  • Research Design and Modeling
  • Survey Design
  • Various Regression Techniques

Prof. Dr. Werner Eichhorst
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Tel.: +49 228 3894 531

Research Interests

  • Labor Market and Social Policy in Europe
  • Comparative labor market research
  • European integration
  • Labor market flexibility
  • Labor market reforms

 

  • Evaluation of Labor Market Programs
  • Labor Market Institutions

Dr. Jakob Fruchtmann
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3035

Research Interests

  • Political and Economic Sociology (Sociology of Money, Sociology of Transformation, Economic Culture, Inequality)
  • Discourse Analysis (qualitative and quantitative approaches)
  • Sociology of Sports
  • Regional Focus: Eastern Europe

Alexander Gattig, Ph.D.
Universität Bremen, Socium
Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 67325

Prof. Dr. Philipp Genschel
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)

Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
Universität Bremen, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft (IfG)
Tel.: +49 421 218 67200

Research Interests

  • Latin American history of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
  • Main regional interests are Chile and the Southern Cone in general, Mexico and Haiti.   
  • Main research interests lie in the history of the armed forces in the Southern Cone and particularly Chile, the history of the welfare state in the Southern Cone, history of health, history of Latin American population, global history, history of migration, gender history
  • Relationship between history and film and its manyfold implications for historic memory and history writing

Prof. Dr. Olaf Groh-Samberg
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 66440

Research Interests

  • The Impact of Social Stratification on Social Mobility
  • Global Dynamics of Middle Classes

Prof. Dr. Tilo Halaszovich
Constructor University
Tel.: +40 421 200 3492

Research Interests

  • Entrepreneurship with a special focus on Emerging Markets and the competitiveness of firms in these markets
  • International Marketing and Branding: Internationalization and market entry strategies, global branding strategies

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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 58572

Research Interests

Social Conflicts

Prof. Dr. Betina Hollstein
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 67280

Research Interests

  • Life Course Research
  • Social Network Research
  • Social Inequality


Methods Expertise

  • Case Selection
  • Generalization in qualitative Research
  • Expert Interviews
  • Grounded Theory
  • Mixed Methods Designs
  • Qualitative comparative Analysis
  • Qualitative Content Analysis
  • Qualitative Interviewing: from guided Interviews to narrative Interviews
  • Reconstructive Methods of Data Analysis (documentary Method of Interpretation / Bohnsack, Narration Analysis / Schütze, objective Hermeneutics / Oevermann)
  • Social Network Research (Theoretical Concepts, quantitative and qualitative approaches)

Dr. Monika Ewa Kaminska
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 58639

Research Interests

  • The Welfare State in East-central Europe
  • Healthcare Systems in East-central Europe
  • Labor Relations in East-central Europe
  • (Comparative) Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health Policy



Prof. Dr. Arvid Kappas
Constructor University
Dean (CU)
Tel.: +49 421 200 3441

Research Interests

  • Emotion and Emotion Regulation
  • Social Robotics and Affective Computing
  • Psychology of the Internet

Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu
Universität Bremen, Pedagogy and Educational Sciences (FB 12)
Tel.: +49 421 218 69020

Research Interests

Educational situation and careers of migrant children and juveniles in Germany

Islam in German schools

Headscarf-discussion in German schools

Living conditions and orientation of girls and women with a migrant family background

Prof. Dr. Torben Klarl
Universität Bremen, Business Studies & Economics (FB07)
Tel.: +49 421 218-66560

Research Interests

  • Sustainability, Health and Climate Change and the Role of Fiscal Policy
  • Computational Economics, esp. (boundly) rational dynamic programing techniques
  • Housing Economics and the Role of Monetary Economics
  • Economics of Innovation and Automation
  • Economics of Inequality

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kühnen
Constructor University
Academic Chair (BIGSSS), Speaker RTG Self
Tel.: +49 421 200 3426

Research Interests

  • Cultural Differences in the Meaning of Choice
  • Learning and Teaching in Multicultural Settings
  • Foundations of Morality and Religious Beliefs

Dr. Mandi M. Larsen
Constructor University
Methods Center Coordinator (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 200 3411

Research Interests

  • Social cohesion
  • Gender-based violence
  • Health inequalities
  • Family and health care policy


Methods Expertise

  • Questionnaire design
  • Phenomenological qualitative research

Prof. Dr. Christoph Lattemann
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3460

Research Interests

  • (Outward Foreign Direct Investment of) Emerging Market Multinationals
  • Social Media Usage
  • Innovation Management, Design Thinking and Diversity

Prof. Dr. Sonia Lippke
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 4730

Research Interests

  • Health Psychology
  • Return to Work
  • Workability
  • Diversity Management

Prof. Dr. Jan Lorenz
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3034

Research Interests

Emergence of social complexity

 

Methods Expertise

  • Social Data Science with R
  • Mathematics for the Social Scientist
  • Data Visualization (with R)

Prof. Dr. Philip Manow
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 58580

Research Interests

  • German Electoral and Legislative Politics (Imperial Period, Weimar & post-1945)
  • Political Careers, their Determinants and Effects
  • The Religious Cleavage and European Party Systems
  • Parliamentarization in France and/or Italy since 1900 - a Quantitative Approach
  • Carl Schmitt's Theory of International Relations/Law
  • Varieties of Education Systems
  • The Role of the Welfare State in the Political Economy of Advanced Industrialiszed Countries

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Martens
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 67498

Research Interests

  • Global Public Policies, especially Global Education, and Social Policy
  • Transnational Relations, International Civil Societies, and NGOs
  • International Organizations, especially the OECD, and the UN

Prof. Dr. Peter Mayer
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 67483

Prof. Dr. Martin Nonhoff
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 67476

Research Interests

  • Contemporary Political Theory, in particular Democratic Theory, Theories of Power and Theories of the Political
  • Income Tax Policy and Fiscal Sociology

Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 58576

Research Interests

  • Democratic Theory and Proceduralism
  • Legitimacy of Capitalism, Empirical Research on Legitimation Processes
  • Political Theory of the Welfare State
  • Theories of Justice

Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 58567

Prof. Dr. Heiko Pleines
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 69602

Research Interests

  • Functioning of (Semi-)authoritarian Political Regimes with a special Focus on Public Protests and Mass Media
  • Reforming Social Policy in the Post-Soviet Region

Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 58557

Research Interests

  • (Comparative) Welfare State Analysis
  • (Compaartive) Long-term Care Economics, Policies and Politics
  • (Comparative) Health Economics, Policies and Politics
  • Ageing Societies

Prof. Dr. Simone Scherger
Universität Bremen, Socium
Academic Chair (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 58569

Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 67475

Research Interests

  • International Political Sociology
  • Sociology of the State
  • Political Violence

Prof. Dr. Achim Schlüter
Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie (ZMT)
Tel.: +49 421 23800 - 104

Research Interests

  • Institutional Change & Environmental Resources
  • Environmental Governance
  • Sustainable Development
  • Marine Social Sciences
  • Institutions and Environmental Behaviour

Prof. Dr. Susanne K. Schmidt
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Academic Chair (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 67484

Research Interests

  • Policy Making in the EU
  • The Power of (National and International) Courts
  • Mutual Recognition as a Means of Integration
  • 'Welfare Migration' in the EU
  • Regional Integration Processes and Labor Migration

Prof. Karen Smith Stegen, Ph.D.
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 4873

Research Interests

  • Transnational Relations, International Civil Societies and NGOs
  • Policy Making in the EU
  • Political Violence
  • Economic Statecraft and International Relations
  • Eurasian Integration: New Silk Road
  • Transnational Governance

Prof. Dr. Christian Stamov Roßnagel
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 4770

Prof. Dr. Tobias ten Brink
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3382

Research Interests

  • The New Silk Road and EU-China Relations
  • China, Global Political Economy and Socio-economic Challenges
  • Implications from the Rise of Large Emerging Countries

Prof. Dr. Markus Tepe
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218-58520

Research Interests

  • Electoral Studies, Parliamentary Research and Political Sociology
  • Political Economy of Redistribution
  • Comparative Public Administration and Public Employment
  • Laboratory Experiments in Social Sciences

Prof. Dr. Colin Vance
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3410

Research Interests

  • Energy and transportation policy
  • Economic development
  • Global environmental change

Methods Expertise

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Spatial econometric modeling

Prof. Dr. Marco Verweij
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3451

Prof. Dr. Sven Völpel
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3467

Prof. Dr. Adalbert Wilhelm
Constructor University
Vice Dean (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 200 3402

Research Interests

Methods Expertise

  • Information and Knowledge Management
  • Statistical Visualization
  • Data Mining
  • Exploratory Data Analysis
  • Computational Statistics

Prof. Dr. Michael Windzio
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 58629

Research Interests

  • Life Course Research
  • Social Network Research
  • Social Inequality
  • Organizations, Organizational Ecologies and Labor Markets
  • Global Migration
  • Residential Segregation and Neighborhoods

Prof. Dr. Arndt Wonka
Universität Bremen, Institute of European Studies
Tel.: +49 421 218 67420

Research Interests

  • European Union Studies
  • Comparative Politics
  • Political mobilization and political contestation
  • Interest groups and political parties
  • Institutions

Dr. Franziska Deutsch
Constructor University
Academic Coordinator (CU)
Tel.: +49 421 200 3958

Research Interests

  • Political Culture, esp. Values and Value Change
  • Political Participation, esp. Protest


Adacemic Coordination

  • Research Training Group SELF
  • Regular and Affiliated PhD Fellows at Constructor University

Dr. Regina Arant
BIGSSS
Director of Studies (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 200 3412

Research Interests

  • Social Cohesion
  • Construction and Change of Geopolitical Identities
  • Personality and Identity Development in Response to Intercultural Experiences
  • Acceptance of Diversity

 

Methods Expertise

  • Mixed Methods
  • Survey Design and Methodology
  • Secondary Data Analysis
  • Qualitative Research Methods, such as (Expert) Interviews, Focus Groups, and Creative Workshops

 

Service Areas

  • Questions around the Curriculum
  • Consulting and mentoring regarding the whole dissertation process
  • Conflict management
  • Strategic and organizational development

Prof. Dr. Gisela Febel
Universität Bremen, Pedagogy and Educational Sciences (FB 12)

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Fehrler
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218-58590

Research Interests

  • Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Social Policy Evaluation
  • Development Economics (projects in Bangladesh and Colombia)
  • Applied Game Theory
  • Human-Algorithm Interaction

Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther
Universität Bremen
President (UB)
Tel.: +49 421 218 66630

Research Interests

  • Economic aspects of system transformation
  • Structural change
  • Innovation processes

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kern
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218-58575

Prof. Dr. Andreas Klee
Universität Bremen, Zentrum für Arbeit und Politik (zap)

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Rabe
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 67460

Research Interests

  • Natural resource governance
  • Digital governance
  • China’s foreign relations
  • Domestic politics of China’s foreign relations
  • Policy implementation in China

Prof. Dr. Patrick Sachweh
Universität Bremen, Socium
Dean (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 218-57081

Research Interests

  • Social Inequality
  • Political Sociology of the Welfare State
  • Economic Sociology
  • Methods of Empirical Social Science

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Schulz
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 58648

Research Interests

  • Social and technological change and inequality
  • Dynamics of intragenerational mobility
  • Family and intergenerational reproduction
  • Gender inequality
  • Skills and competencies in the labor market

Dr. Philipp Schulz
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Tel.: +49 421 218-67467

Research Interests

  • peace and conflict research
  • feminist analyses of political violene and armed conflict
  • methods and ethics of researching political violence
  • masculinities in the context of sexual and gender-based violence
  • love and care in the context of political violence

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Torp
Universität Bremen, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft (IfG)
Tel.: 0049 (0)421 - 218 67235

Research Interests

  • European and Global History from 1800 to the present
  • History of the Welfare State
  • The Correlation of Social Policy and Protectionism
  • Globalization Processes in Modern History

Methods Center

Prof. Dr. Klaus Boehnke
Constructor University
Methods Center Chair (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 200 3401

Research Interests

  • Political Socialization (Xenophobia, Right-wing extremism)
  • Value Change and Value Transmission
  • Social Cohesion


Methods Expertise

  • Analysis of Variance
  • Latent Growth Modeling
  • Nonparametric Statistics
  • Structural Equation Modeling

Prof. Dr. Hilke Brockmann
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3491

Research Interests

  • Life Course Research
  • Social Inequality
  • Ageing Societies
  • Quality of Life & Subjective Well-being


Methods Expertise

  • Panel Analysis
  • Time-series Analysis

Prof. Sonja Drobnič, Ph.D.
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 66360

Research Interests

  • Quality of Life, Quality of Work, Work-Life Balance
  • Family, Household, Gender
  • Social Capital and Social Cohesion
  • Life Course Research


Methods Expertise

  • Event History (Survival) Analysis
  • Questionnaire Construction
  • Research Design and Modeling
  • Survey Design
  • Various Regression Techniques

Alexander Gattig, Ph.D.
Universität Bremen, Socium
Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 67325

Prof. Dr. Betina Hollstein
Universität Bremen, Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 67280

Research Interests

  • Life Course Research
  • Social Network Research
  • Social Inequality


Methods Expertise

  • Case Selection
  • Generalization in qualitative Research
  • Expert Interviews
  • Grounded Theory
  • Mixed Methods Designs
  • Qualitative comparative Analysis
  • Qualitative Content Analysis
  • Qualitative Interviewing: from guided Interviews to narrative Interviews
  • Reconstructive Methods of Data Analysis (documentary Method of Interpretation / Bohnsack, Narration Analysis / Schütze, objective Hermeneutics / Oevermann)
  • Social Network Research (Theoretical Concepts, quantitative and qualitative approaches)

Dr. Mandi M. Larsen
Constructor University
Methods Center Coordinator (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 200 3411

Research Interests

  • Social cohesion
  • Gender-based violence
  • Health inequalities
  • Family and health care policy


Methods Expertise

  • Questionnaire design
  • Phenomenological qualitative research

Prof. Dr. Klaus Schlichte
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 67475

Research Interests

  • International Political Sociology
  • Sociology of the State
  • Political Violence

Prof. Dr. Colin Vance
Constructor University
Tel.: +49 421 200 3410

Research Interests

  • Energy and transportation policy
  • Economic development
  • Global environmental change

Methods Expertise

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Spatial econometric modeling

Prof. Dr. Adalbert Wilhelm
Constructor University
Vice Dean (BIGSSS)
Tel.: +49 421 200 3402

Research Interests

Methods Expertise

  • Information and Knowledge Management
  • Statistical Visualization
  • Data Mining
  • Exploratory Data Analysis
  • Computational Statistics

Prof. Dr. Arndt Wonka
Universität Bremen, Institute of European Studies
Tel.: +49 421 218 67420

Research Interests

  • European Union Studies
  • Comparative Politics
  • Political mobilization and political contestation
  • Interest groups and political parties
  • Institutions

Adjunct Faculty

Prof. Dr. Nikolas Dörr
Hochschule für Polizei Baden-Württemberg
Adjunct Faculty
Tel.: +49 (0) 7720 309-4430

Research Interests

  • Security Studies, Military and International Relations
  • Comparative and Historical Studies of the Welfare State
  • Cold War Studies
  • Politics of Memory/Politics of History
  • Labour History and Communist Studies

Prof. Dr. Adrienne Héritier
European University Institute (EUI)
Bremen Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

  • European Politics and Policy Making
  • Theories of Institutions and Institutional Change
  • Regulation
  • New Modes of Governance

Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli
European University Institute (EUI)
Bremen Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

  • Life Course Research
  • Family and Population
  • Generations
  • (Comparative) Welfare State Analysis

Prof. Dr. Özen Odag
Touro College Berlin
Adjunct Faculty

Prof. Ingo Rohlfing, Ph.D.
Universität zu Köln
Adjunct Faculty

Research Interests

  • Party competition
  • Party organizations


Methods Expertise

  • Case studies (single Case and comparative)
  • Concept Formation and Measurement
  • Multi-method Designs
  • Process tracing
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
  • Time-series Cross-section regression

Prof. Dr. Carina Schmitt
University of Bamberg
Adjunct Faculty

Research Interests


Main Fields of Interest:

  • International Political Ecnomy
  • Comparative Welfare State Research
  • Colonialism and Social Policy
  • Quantitative Methods of Social Science

Method Set and Software Skills:

  • Panel data analysis
  • Spatial Econometrics
  • Structural Equation Modelling
  • STATA, R, ArcGis, Pajek, Matlab

Prof. Dr. Margrit Schreier
Constructor University
Adjunct Faculty

Research Interests

  • Diversity, esp. Gender and Disability
  • Media Reception and Media Effects


Methods Expertise

  • Argumentation Analysis
  • Case Selection in Qualitative Research
  • Coding
  • Metaphor Analysis
  • Mixed Methods
  • Narrative Analysis
  • Pragmalinguistic Analysis
  • Qualitative Content Analysis
  • Subjective Theories#
  • Types and Typologies
  • Qualitative Research
  • Arts-based Research

Prof. Dr. Ursula Staudinger
TU Dresden
Adjunct Faculty

Research Interests

  • Aging
  • Community Health
  • Education
  • Health Care Policy

Prof. Dr. Jelle Visser
University of Amsterdam
Adjunct Faculty

Research Interests

  • Comparative research on trade unions and trade union renewal
  • Evelopments in collective bargaining - institutions, governance and outcomes
  • Changing labour markets, in particular developments in the GIG-economy

Prof. Dr. Christopher Cohrs
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Adjunct Faculty
Tel.: +49 6421 28 26632

Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz
University of Oxford
Adjunct Faculty
Tel.: +49 421 218 66990

Research Interests

  • Institutional Economics
  • Comparative Political Economy
  • Political Economy of Russia and China
  • Bureaucratic Incentives and Economic Growth
  • Industrial Policy, Innovation, Absorptive Capacity, Technology Transfer

Prof. Dr. Céline Teney
Freie Universität Berlin
Adjunct Faculty
Tel.: +49 30 838 72387

Emeritus Faculty

Prof. em. Uwe Engel
Universität Bremen
Emeritus

Research Interests

  • Latent class analysis
  • Multilevel regression for cross-sectional and panel data
  • Structural equation modeling
  • Nonresponse bias and measurement error in survey data    

Prof. em. Karin Gottschall
Universität Bremen
Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 58595

Research Interests

  • Social Policy and Elderly Care Arrangements
  • Gender, Work and Welfare
  • Public Sector Employment
  • Labor Markt Dynamics and Non-standard Work

Prof. em. Walter R. Heinz
Universität Bremen
Emeritus
Tel.: +49 421 218 66379

Research Interests

Sociology of Youth
Transitions from Education to Employment in Cross-National perspective
Biography and Life Course Studies

Prof. em. Johannes Huinink
Universität Bremen
Socium
Tel.: +49 421 218 67340

Dr. Margrit E. Kaufmann
Universität Bremen
Emeritus
Tel.: +49 421 218 67631

Research Interests

  • Intersectionality, Diversity Studies
  • Gender/Queer/Postcolonial Studies
  • Racism and institutional discrimination
  • Refugee Studies
  • Migration and health
  • Research on (higher) education

Methods Expertise

  • Qualitative research methododology: ethnography in theory and practice, organizational research methods

Prof. em. Karl-Heinz Ladeur
Universität Hamburg
Emeritus

Prof. em. Ulrike Liebert
Universität Bremen
Emeritus
Tel.: +49 421 218 67030

Prof. em. Ulrich Mückenberger
Universität Bremen
Emeritus
Tel.: +49 421 218 66218

Prof. em. Uwe Schimank
Universität Bremen
Emeritus
Tel.: +49 421 218 67370

Prof. em. Ansgar Weymann
Universität Bremen
Emeritus
Tel.: +49 421 218 66379

Research Interests

Social theory
Social change
The life course
Education and employment

Prof. em. Matthias Wingens
Universität Bremen
Emeritus

Research Interests

  • Life Course Research
  • Social Theory
  • Knowledge Society