SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, Universität Bremen

Recently published

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.

Scherger, S., Abramowski, R., Dingeldey, I., Hokema, A., Schäfer, A. (Hg.) (2021):

Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Alterssicherung? Ungleichheit zwischen den Renten von Männern und Frauen – Befunde, Ursachen, Maßnahmen. In: Heimbach-Steins, Marianne (eds.), Alter – Altern – Alterssicherung. Sozialethische Perspektiven, Jahrbuch Christliche Sozialwissenschaften 64, Münster: Aschendorff, pp. 175 - 201.

Research

Main Research Interests

life courses
social policy
age and ageing
employment
generations
social inequality

Ongoing Research Projects

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)

German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS) (founding member and part of the core team in field 4 "life courses and social policy")

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.