Prof. Dr. Anja Abendroth

Scientific career

• Since 2025
  • IAB Research Fellow,Institute for Employment Research, Nürnberg https://iab.de/en/fellows/professor-anja-kristin-abendroth/

• Since 12/2023
  • Professor for Social Structure Analysis, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

• 2018-2023
  • Junior Professor "Technological and Social Change", working area Social Structure and Social Inequality, Bielefeld University', and NRW-funded focus of research "Digital Future"
  • 02/2021 positive assessment of the first phase of the junior professorship

• 2013-2018
  • Akademische Rätin, Faculty of Sociology, working area Social Structure and Social Inequality, Prof Dr Martin Diewald, Bielefeld University

• 2011-2013
  • Research assistant in the project "Interactions between realisation opportunities in appointment and private life: An investigation of employees in different work organisations'' of the Collaborative Research Centres 882 "From Heterogeneities to Inequalities", Bielefeld University (continued research work in SFB 882 as academic counsellor).

• 2008-2012
  • PhD student and research assistant in the European Science Foundation project "Labour Market Inequalities between Men and Women in Europe" University of Utrecht/ICS, Netherlands

Academic degrees

• 2013
  • Doctorate/Phd studies at the University of Utrecht/ICS, Netherlands; title: Working Women in Europe: How the Country, Workplace, and Family Context Matter (first and second supervisors: Prof. Dr Tanja van der Lippe and Prof. Dr Ineke Maas)

• 2008
  • Diploma in Sociology at Bielefeld University
  • Diploma thesis: Work-life balance support in Europe. The impact of national, workplace and private life support on work-life balance satisfaction (First supervisor: Prof Dr Laura Den Dulk, Utrecht University; second opinion: Prof Dr Martin Diewald, Bielefeld University)

• 2007
  • Second degree: Bachelor of Science in Health Communication
  • Bachelor's thesis: (On the distribution of work-life balance and its health significance in the workplace - first results of an empirical study in different appointment status groups. (First supervisor: Dr Petra Rixgens; second supervisor: Prof Dr Bernhard Badura)

Third-party funds

• 2024-2028
  • Joint project InfraNextGen
  • Sponsored by EU-Horizon
  • Scientific management of the project area "Make it Digital": Prof Dr Anja Abendroth

• 2021-2025
  • Funding of the project '"The choice between time or money: new flexibility for a better work-life balance?"
  • Sponsored by the HBS'
  • Project management: Prof Dr Anja Abendroth & Dana Müller (IAB)

• 2021-2023
  • Acquisition of the project '"Flexibility in digitalised working environments: The use and effects of telecommuting and digital work communication in a European country comparison" as part of the priority programme "Digitalisation of working environments"
  • Sponsored by the DFG
  • Project management: JProf. Dr Anja Abendroth

• 2021-2022
  • Acquisition of the project '"Changing working conditions and quality of life in digitalised working environments: What role do operational framework conditions play"
  • Sponsored by the BAuA'
  • Project management: JProf. Dr Anja Abendroth and Dr Mareike Reimann

• Since 2021
  • Research network "Individualisation in Changing Environments" (InChangeE), Bielefeld University

• 2019-2022
  • Acquisition of the project '"Conflicts of values in the design of socio-technical systems using the example of the distribution of work tasks" as part of the second phase of the Fortschrittskolleg "Digital Design of Flexible Working Environments" applied for
  • Sponsored by the State Ministry of Culture and Science NRW'
  • Project management: JProf. Dr Anja Abendroth

• 2017-2020
  • Acquisition of the project '"Organisational inequalities and interactions between realisation opportunities in professional and private life".
  • Sponsored by the DFG
  • Project management: JProf. Dr Anja Abendroth, Prof. Dr Diewald and Dr Silvia Melzer