Professional Activities
Membership
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie/German Sociological Association
- Section "Social Policy" (member of the managing board since 3/2025)
- Section "Age and Ageing" (member of the managing board 11/2013-12/2019)
- Section "Social inequality and analysis of social structure"
Knowledge Transfer Activities
- 2018-2020: Member of the commission "Reliable generational contract" (pension commission) of the Federal Government of Germany
- 2015-2019: Member of COST-Action "Gender and health impacts of policies extending working life in Western countries" (COST: European Cooperation in Science and Technology; transnational cooperation network for research and policy transfer, http://genderewl.com)
- 2016: Member of advisory board of the network conference "Fit im Job – Erwerbsteilhabe gestalten" [Fit in work – enabling employment participation] in the federal state of Bremen, 6th September 2016
Reviewer
- for the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- for the Minerva Foundation (part of the Max Planck Society)
- for the Research Network Old-Age Provision (FNA) (part of the German pension insurance)
Article Reviews
- Acta Psychologica
- Acta Sociologica
- Ageing & Society
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- European Journal of Ageing
- European Societies
- European Sociological Review
- German Politics
- International Journal of Ageing and Later Life
- Journal of Population Ageing
- Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
- Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
- Leisure Sciences
- Poetics
- Social Inclusion
- Sozialer Fortschritt
- The Sociological Review
- WSI-Mitteilungen
- Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
- Zeitschrift für Sozialreform/Journal of Social Policy Research
- Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Service to the profession: University of Bremen
- Director of the SOCIUM (since April 2024)
- Deputy Director of the SOCIUM (2020-2024)
- Member of managing board of the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS) (since 2021)
- Member of the equal opportunities committee of the Collaborative Research Centre 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" (since 2022)
- Member and head of the examinations board Bachelor Sociology (since 2021)
- Academic Chair (for the SOCIUM) in the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) (since October 2020)
- responsible for double degree "Transatlantic Master Social Policy" (TAM), together with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
- Member the examinations board Master Social Policy (since June 2022)
- elected member of the faculty council FB 08: Social Sciences (2019-2021)
Service to the profession: external
- member of advisory board of "BIOS - Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsforschung" (journal for biographical research, oral history and life course research) (since 2021)
- member of advisory board of project "Kontinuierliche Arbeitsweltberichterstattung" [continuous employment reporting] (funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 2019-2022)
- member of advisory board of project "Materielle Teilhabe im Lebenslauf" [material participation in the life course] (funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 2019-2022)
- member of advisory board of project "Späte Karrieren? Berufswechsel in der zweiten Lebenshälfte" [Late careers? Changes in occupation in the second half of life] (funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 2019-2022)
- member of editorial advisory board of book series "Rethinking Work, Ageing and Retirement", Bristol University Press, edited by David Lain and Sarah Vickerstaff (since 2019)
Miscellaneous
Associated Postdoc-Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute for Advanced Study (2011-2014)
