Current projects
Research at the SOCIUM usually is organized in projects carried out by its departments, many of them being financed through third party funding. The SOCIUM receives essential support from institutions such as the German National Research Foundation (DFG), the VolkswagenFoundation, and other public and private organizations, i.e. health insurances.
EPIC: Expertise and Politicization in COVID discourse
Research Team: Sebastian Haunss (Head of project); Sebastian Padó (Head of project); Johannes Kühling; Nina Vikhrova
Protest as a Democracy Test
Research Team: Sebastian Haunss (Head of project); Sophia Hunger (Head of project); Heiko Pleines (Head of project); Nina Krienke; Philipp Srama
DFG Network Manual sociology of violence
Research Team: Jonas Barth (Head of project)
The interplay of social contexts and genetic potentials: cognitive and educational development in the early life course
Research Team: Wiebke Schulz (Head of project); Henriette Bering
Qualitative panel: Milieu-specific practices of endangering and maintaining social cohesion
Research Team: Arne Koevel (Head of project); Patrick Sachweh (Head of project); Sebastian Jürss
Comparing Protests and Social Cohesion in eastern and western Europe
Research Team: Priska Daphi (Head of project); Sebastian Haunss (Head of project); Pál Susanszky
Conflicts between social milieus and social cohesion
Research Team: Olaf Groh-Samberg (Head of project); Thomas Kern (Head of project); Patrick Sachweh (Head of project); Wiebke Schulz (Head of project); Tim Schröder; Anne Speer
Specialised Information Service Criminology
Research Team: Betina Hollstein (Head of project); Katharina Stelzel (Head of project); Kristina Enders; Janina Meister
Generative AI in the world of work (GENKIA)
Research Team: Yongping Bao (Head of project); Florian Butollo (Head of project); Mareike Sirman-Winkler (Head of project); Markus Tepe (Head of project)
DEVCOBA – DEVeloping COllective BArgaining in the Care Sector
Research Team: Ruth Abramowski (Head of project); Anna Hokema; Simone Scherger
