Regular & Affiliated Fellows
BIGSSS hosts more than 90 international fellows in its PhD Programs. Please find below their research profiles, publications and contact information.
Regular Ph.D. Programs
- Research Training Group "Social Dynamics of the Self" (SELF)
- DAAD-GSSP "Global Dynamics of Social Policy and Social Cohesion" (GSPSC)
- DAAD-GSSP "Global Inequality, the Middle Classes and the Welfare State" (GloWel)
- DAAD-GSSP "Contentious Politics in the Digital Age" (CoPoDi)
- BIGSSS-departs / EU COFUND
- DFG Excellence Initiative
- DHET Funda Germany Scholarship Programme (DHET)
Affiliated Ph.D. Program
Visiting Ph.D. Program
DFG Excellence Initiative
Research Interests
Organizational Sociology
Social Theory
Welfare State and Labour Market
Qualitative Methods
BIGSSS-departs / EU COFUND
Research Interests
- Social Complexity
- Agent-based modelling
- Immigrant Integration
Research Interests
- Emerging powers
- Chinese entrepreneur networks
- New Silk Road
- Social network analysis; qualitative interviews
Affiliated Ph.D. Program
Research Interests
- Social policy in Ukraine under conditions of war
- Social care for internally displaced people
- Civil society
- Democratic processes in post-soviet countries
Research Interests
Strategies and Actors of Economic Transformation
(Historical) Regionbuilding
Structural Policies in Socialism and Capitalism
Research Interests
Political regimes, Identity construction, Social contexts mechanisms, Internalization of norms, Useful individual formation,
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Research Areas
Gender
Peace and Conflict Studies
Migration Studies
Qualitative Methods
Research Interests
European Politics, Deep-Sea-Mining, Common Foreign and Security Policy, Securitization, Role Theory
Research Interests
Various developments are increasingly challenging social cohesion, such as anthropogenic climate change, globalisation or populism. In particular, the nature of the latter, including its effects on European democracies, has become the focus of my research interest in recent years.
Research Areas
Social Policy
Public Health
Development Research
Research Areas
Qualitative Methods
Social Networks
Inequality
Mixed Methods
Research Interests
Research Interests
- Transition
- East Germany
- Entrepreneurship
- Vocational Training
- Life-long Learning
Research Interests
- Party Positioning
- Natural Language Processing
- Parliamentary Debate Analysis
Research Interests
Social Cohesion and Polarization
Political Sociology
Urban Sociology
Universität Bremen, Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS)
Tel.: +49 421 218 67477
Research Areas
Gender
Migration Studies
International Relations
Qualitative Methods
International Relations
Research Interests
Queer Forced Migration, Forced Displacements, SOGIESC, Agency, Gender, Conflict-related Sexual Violence
Research Interests
International Political Economy, State-Business Relations and Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies
Research Areas
Social Policy
Welfare State Research
Development Research
Comparative Politics
Quantitative Methods
Research Interests
Sociology of the Family
Intergenerational Transmission
Qualitative & Quantitative Research Methods
Research Interests
- Social protection policies across the Global South
- Social inclusion
- Family policies
- Gender and the welfare state
Research Interests
- Perceptions of and Preferences for Inequality
- Legitimization of Inequality
- Social Policy and Welfare Attitudes
- Comparative Political/Moral Economy
- Quantitative Methods
RTG "Social Dynamics of the Self" (SELF)
Research Interests
- Identity Development and Migration Studies
- Migrants’ Digital Media Usage and Integration
- Intergroup Relations
Research Interests
- Gender Values of Muslim Population
- Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
- Victim blaming and Rape myths
Research Interests
- Bicultural Identity Integration
- Identity Development of Minority Groups
- Transnationalism and Migrant Networking
- Internally Displaced Persons
Research Interests
- Culture
- Moral Judgment
- Social Cognition
- Implicit measures
Research Interests
- Welfare states and social policy
- Redistributive preferences
- Deservingness opinion
- Family policies
Research Interests
- occupational wellbeing
- mental health
- health psychology
DAAD GSSP "Global Dynamics of Social Policy and Social Cohesion" (GSPSC)
Research Interests
My research interests span these fields:
- Housing inequalities
- Social Inequalities
- Urban development
- Disaster risk management
- Urban informal economy
Research Interests
- Mental Health and Psychological Well-being
- Sociology of happiness
- Subjective well-being
- Social policy and immigrants
- Immigrant integration policies
- Social inequality
- Education, happiness and mental health
Research Interests
- Social movements
- Collective identity
- Critical masculinties
- Ethnographic and Interpretive Methods
DAAD GSSP "Global Inequality, the Middle Classes and the Welfare State" (GloWel)
Research Interests
Emotion work; Emotional labour; Care work; Long-term care; Ageing; Gender inequality; Class inequality; Qualitative methods; Grounded Theory; Latin American research; Feminist studies
Research Interests
Social stratification, Social networks, redistributive preferences, distributive justice
Research Interests
- Care work
- Feminist political economy
- Rural sociology
- Spatial mobility
- Qualitative methods
DAAD GSSP "Contentious Politics in the Digital Age" (CoPoDi)
Research Interests
- Computational Communication
- Misinformation Detection
- Climate Communication
Research Interests
Political communication | Digital Media | Youth Engagement | Social Movements | Digital Inequalities
DHET Funda Germany Scholarship Programme (DHET)
Research Interests
- Intersectionality
- Public Policy
- Feminist Political Economy
- Philosophical Ethics
- Women’s Peace and Security
Research Interests
- Hybrid Governance
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Public Land and Asset Management
- Immovable Asset Portfolio Optimization
- Real Estate
- Urban and Regional Planning
