Research
Main Research Interests
- life courses
- social policy
- age and ageing
- employment
- generations
- social inequality
Ongoing Research Projects
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Project A02 in the Collaborative Research Center 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy": "Global Dynamics of Coverage and Generosity in Work-Injury Compensation, Unemployment and Old-Age Pensions" (PI with Nate Breznau, and Sebastian Fehrler)
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German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS) (founding member and part of the core team in field 4 "life courses and social policy")
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Research Training Group "Social Dynamics of the Self" (together with Constructor University)
Completed Research Project
Emmy Noether research group "Paid work beyond retirement age in Germany and the UK" (head of project)
The independent junior research group, funded by the German Research Foundation (from 2010 until 2017), investigated employment in pension age and after the transition to retirement in Germany and the UK. This was done on an empirical basis, applying quantitative as well as qualitative methods. In addition to paid employment beyond retirement, the framing institutions and collective discourses around work, old age and old age provision were studied as well.