SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, Universität Bremen

Recently published

Laschinski, M., Hofäcker, D., Scherger, S. (eds.) (2026):

Alter, Kohorten und Generationen in der Sozialpolitik. Perspektiven auf sozialpolitischen Wandel. Paper series of the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS)/5. Frankfurt/New York: Campus

Eggers, T., Scherger, S. (eds.) (2024):

Social policies as life course policies – normative ideas, institutions and individual agency. Special issue of the Zeitschrift für Sozialreform/Journal of Social Policy Research 70 (1). Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

Scherger S. (2024):

Social policies and the life course – a complex relationship re-visited. In: Eggers, Thurid & Scherger, Simone (eds.), Social policies as life course policies – normative ideas, institutions and individual agency, Special issue of the Zeitschrift für Sozialreform/Journal of Social Policy Research 70 (1), Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 7-29.

Simone Scherger - research projects

German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research - Collaborative Research Center (DIFIS-SOFO)
Research Team: Tanja Klenk (Head of project); Ina Bosma; Thurid Eggers; Sebastian Fehrler; Olaf Groh-Samberg; Anna Hokema; Olexandr Nikolaychuk; Frank Nullmeier; Patrick Sachweh; Simone Scherger; Achim Schmid; Wiebke Schulz; Markus Tepe; Caroline Warfelmann

DEVCOBA – DEVeloping COllective BArgaining in the Care Sector
Research Team: Ruth Abramowski (Head of project); Anna Hokema; Simone Scherger

Global Dynamics of Coverage and Generosity in Work-Injury Compensation, Unemployment and Old-Age Pensions
Research Team: Nate Breznau (Head of project); Sebastian Fehrler (Head of project); Simone Scherger (Head of project); Aline Grünewald

Emmy Noether Research Group "Paid work beyond pension age in Germany and the UK"
Research Team: Simone Scherger (Head of project); Steffen Hagemann; Anna Hokema; Thomas Lux