07/2015 - 08/2021 Research Assistent & Academic Tutor at the Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning (HUL)
06/2019-10/2021 Freelancer at the Hamburg Institute for Applied Data Analysis (IfaD)
Education
since 2021 Doctoral Researcher at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
2015-2019 Master of Arts in Sociology at the University of Hamburg (Thesis: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Relation Between Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Economic Values from the Perspective of Institutional Anomie Theory)
2011-2015 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at the Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg (Thesis: Ethnic Inequalities in the Transition from Education to Work)
Awards
2019 Janpeter Kob Award for best thesis in Sociology at the University of Hamburg from the Alumni Association of Hamburg Sociologists
2020 Award for outstanding theses at the University of Hamburg from the Dr. Walter Kapaun Foundation
Current research topics
Research project
Leibniz ScienceCampus SOEPRegioHub "Regional Development Dynamics and their Political Consequences"
Nickel, A., & Weber, W. (2024). Measurement Invariance and Quality of Attitudes Towards Immigration in the European Social Survey. methods, data, analyses, 18(2), 213-248. doi:https://doi.org/10.12758/mda.2024.04.
Groß, E.M., Hövermann, A., & Nickel, A. (2023). Entsicherte Marktförmigkeit als Treiber eines libertären Autoritarismus. In: A. Zick, B. Küpper, N. Mokros (Hg.). Distanzierte Mitte. Rechtsextreme und demokratiegefährdende Einstellungen in Deutschland 2022/23. Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. S. 243-256.
Nickel, A., & Groß, E. M. (2023). Assessing Regional Variation in Support for the Radical Right-Wing Party ‘Alternative for Germany’ (AfD)—A Novel Application of Institutional Anomie Theory across German Districts. Social Sciences, 12(7), 412. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12070412
Nickel, A. (2022). Institutional Anomie, Market-Based Values and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes: A Multilevel Analysis in 28 European Countries. International Journal of Conflict and Violence , 16. https://doi.org/10.11576/ijcv-5126