Regular & Affiliated Fellows

Research Interests

Organizational Sociology

Social Theory

Welfare State and Labour Market

Qualitative Methods

Research Interests

Global governance and international organisations
Political Sociology
Armed conflict & Forced migration
Peacekeeping, humanitarianism, development aid, particulary in regards to the 'Protection of Civilians'
Qualitative methods/ Ethnography
Geographic focus: Central and East Africa

Research Interests

Coming from Serbia, my interests focus mainly around societal outliers—Roma children and families, LGBTIQ adolescents, and gifted underachieving pupils. I am currently working on a project investigating the interplay of individuals' personal values and values they are exposed to while interacting with their immediate social groups, and its effects on subjective well-being.

• Child and Adolescent Psychology
• Educational Psychology
• Mental Health
• Values
• Personal Construct Psychotherapy
• Mixed Methods

Research Interests

Digital anthropology

Interpretive sociology

Philosophy of language

Philosophy of mind

Grounded Theory

Netnography & multi-sited ethnography 

Thematic & qualitative content analysis

Research Interests

I am interested in doing research about global governance, regulatory coordination and social outcomes of international trade and foreign diplomacy. I attend to strategic behaviors employed by the stake-holding actors, including work on governance tactics, legislative instruments, and the role that constitutional characteristics and contemporary industrial relations play in shaping these strategies.

During the doctoral study at BIGSSS, under the umbrella term of global governance, I conduct research on the trajectories of social and human rights commitment and compliance along global supply chains of labor-intensive products and explore cases of cooperation and coordination among governments, and between state and non-state actors in the Global South context.

Additionally, I am keen on learning about the prospects of digital transformation for the future of work, the application of artificial intelligence in improving working conditions and labor standards in low-income countries; and most importantly, the social pillar within global sustainability commitment and implementation.

Research Interests

• Social Complexity
• Agent-based modelling
• Immigrant Integration

Research Interests

• Sociology of the Family
• Intersectionality
• Elderly-Care Arrangements
• Gender and Social Policy
• Feminist Methodology
• Life Course Research

Research Interests

• Emerging powers
• Chinese entrepreneur networks
• New Silk Road
• Social network analysis; qualitative interviews

Research Interests

Primary Focus:
My research investigates the intersection of political economy, international organizations, and welfare state transformation, with a particular emphasis on health care systems in transitioning economies.

Specific Research Areas:

• Transformation of health care systems in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) following the collapse of communism, focusing on institutional change and policy outputs.
• The influence of international financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the IMF, on health care reforms in low- and middle-income countries, including transitional economies in CEE.
• The political economy of health care financing reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, exploring the interplay between domestic politics, fiscal constraints, and external actors.

Research Interests

• Noncognitive skills (particularly grit and self-control)
• Positive psychological approach to personality
• Educational inequalities

Research Interests

• Migration studies and Transnationalism
• Long-Term Care Policy
• Gender, Labour Market and Social Policy
• Qualitative Research

Research Interests

•          Healthcare Systems in East-central Europe
•          Quality of health care
•          Patient safety
•          Patient rights

Research Interests

Sociology of the Family
Intergenerational Transmission
Qualitative & Quantitative Research Methods

Research Interests

International organizations (IOs) are active actors of global governance. They direct, fund, and implement different forms of projects that affect people’s lives in different countries. My Ph.D. project focuses on the influence of IOs in China from an educational perspective. Nevertheless, the existing literature has fallen short on the study of international organizations in China mainly due to the challenging interdisciplinary nature of the topic and complex realistic concerns. This study aims to answer the research question - Do international organizations have an influence in China? If so, in what ways do IOs exert their influence?

 

My PhD study will consist of a series of papers. The first paper will carry out an in-depth single-case study on OECD and the change of its influence in China through its well-known international educational program PISA. Then, the second paper will proceed with a comparative case study between the educational programs in China of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The final paper will be a content analysis of the publications from all the IOs carrying out educational programs in China. Each of the papers will answer one of the above sub-research questions. By studying IO’s educational programs in international ranking programs, funding, and ideas in China, the study aims to illustrate the interaction between IOs and the Chinese government through the educational perspective.

 

In addition, I am a member of the University of Bremen’s Collaborative Research Center 1342. Our team, A05 of CRC 1342, investigates the global development of coverage and generosity of state education in the secondary school sector. We conduct in-depth case studies on the influence of global transformation processes on the national education policy of Senegal, Ghana, Malaysia, and Cambodia. I have just finished a paper on Cambodia’s education system.

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 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
Migration Studies
Social Policy
Political Theory
Comparative Politics
Social Stratification
Qualitative Methods
Quantitative Methods

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

Research Areas
Gender
Migration Studies
International Relations

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

• Migration studies
• Diaspora studies
• Belongingness 
• Longing 
• Otherness
• postmigration
• Narratives analysis method 

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 

Research Interests

• Identity Development and Migration Studies 
• Migrants’ Digital Media Usage and Integration
• Intergroup Relations

Research Interests

• Ambivalent Sexism and Rape Myth Acceptance 
• Islamic Feminism and  Gender Values of Muslim Population 
• Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) 
• Urban-Rural Perspectives

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

• Social Cohesion

Research Areas
Comparative Politics
Intergroup Relations
Social Networks
Mixed Methods

Research Interests

• Welfare states and social policy
• Redistributive preferences
• Deservingness opinion
• Family policies

Research Interests

My research interests span these fields:

• Housing inequalities 
• Social Inequalities
• Urban development 
• Disaster risk management 
• Urban informal economy 

Research Interests

environmental policy, social policy, policy narratives, Narative Policy Framework, social cohesion

Research Interests

• Sociology of happiness
• Subjective well-being of immigrants
• Social policy and immigrants
• Immigrant integration policies
• Social inequality

Research Interests

• Gender
• Masculinities
• Social movements
• Victimhood and Vulnerability politics
• Ethnography
• Critical discourse analysis

Research Interests

• Family Solidarity
• Social Policy
• Welfare Preferences
• Quantitative Methods
• Survey Methodology

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