Olivia Jane Whelan

Academic Degrees

• M.A. Sociology, Bielefeld University, 2023. Title of master's thesis: 'The Process of Legislative "Decaffeination": An analysis of the discursive construction of - and approach taken to - the nexus between climate change and migration presented within a case-study INI report and its progression within the European Parliament'
• B.Soc.Sc. Sociology and Social Policy (two-subject Bachelor), Maynooth University, Ireland, 2020

Professional Experience

• Since 06/2024: Research assistant and PhD candidate in the project "Social Security in Crisis Mode - SosiKri", Funding Network for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (FiS) - Junior Research Group 2024 (project management: Dr John Berten), Working Group 4 - Politics and Society / AG Prof. Dr Alexandra Kaasch, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
• 07/2022-09/2023: Managing Editor of the academic journal Global Social Policy, SAGE Publications Inc., Working Group 4 - Politics and Society / AG Prof. Dr Alexandra Kaasch, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
• 01-07/2022: Research Assistant / Webmaster, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University
• 06/2021-01/2022: Research Assistant, Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 1228 "Practices of Comparison" and the Bielefeld University Press, Bielefeld University
• 04-10/2021: Researcher in the development of a concept for the integration of recovering substance users in the Edmonton community, Ladyflower Gardens, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• 01/2021-07/2022: Research Assistant, Coordination Office of the Research Training Group 2225 "World Politics", Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

Awards and Scholarships

• Master's degree graduation as student with the best result of the year, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, 2023
• Social scholarship, OWL Study Fund Foundation