Research

Research focus

  • Sociology of social inequality (poverty research)
  • Sociology of the family
  • Sociology of labor (market)
  • Empirical social research (mixed methods)

Projects

  • Child poverty in Kassel. Service learning project in cooperation with the coordination office of the Kassel "Pakt gegen Armut" and the parliamentary group Bündnis 90/ die Grünen Kassel (2022 - 2023).
  • Families in the Trap? Dynamics of familial poverty in an individualized working society; dissertation project at the University of Kassel (2012 - 2016)
  • "Adolescents and young adults in the basic security system" in the research area "Unemployment and social participation" at the IAB Nuremberg (2010 - 2012)
  • "Living situations and educational situation of children and adolescents in poverty situations", in the research areas "Unemployment and social participation" and "Panel labor market and social security" at IAB Nuremberg (2010 - 2012)
  • Accompanying scientific research for the model project "Pro Kind Sachsen" at the University Hospital Leipzig, Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics of Childhood and Adolescence (2008 - 2010)