Prof. Dr. Daniela Schiek

• Since June 2024: Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Research with a focus on qualitative methods at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University (DFG Heisenberg Professorship)

• December 2023 - January 2024: Research stay at the School of Welfare at the University of California in Berkeley, USA

• September 2019 - May 2024: Research assistant for teaching (methods of qualitative social research) at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg

• April 2006 - August 2019: Research Assistant (Sociology/Methods of Qualitative Social Research) at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen (C. Ullrich). Leaves of absence for stays abroad and professorships:

• April 2016 - September 2016: Substitute professor for methods of empirical social research with a focus on qualitative methods at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University.

• October 2014 - March 2016: Substitute Professor of Sociology, in particular Microsociology at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg

• February 2014 - March 2014: Research Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington (DC), USA.

• March 2005 - March 2006: Research assistant at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Hohenheim (E. Barlösius).

• August 2004 - February 2005: Research assistant to the Chairman of the Committee on Health and Social Affairs in the German Bundestag (Klaus Kirschner, MdB)

• May 2002 - February 2005: Head of the office of the Baden-Württemberg SPD regional group in the German Bundestag

OTHER POSITIONS:

• Since 2020: Member of the board of the "Methods of Qualitative Social Research" section of the German Sociological Association - since 2023: Spokesperson

• Advisor to the expert panel preparing the research for the 7th Poverty and Wealth Report of the German Federal Government (Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs 2021)

• Advice to the advisory board of the "Living well in Germany" project of the German Federal Government (Federal Chancellery 2015)

ACADEMIC EDUCATION:

• 2017: Post-doctoral habilitation (sociology) at Bielefeld University

• 2010: Doctorate/PhD studies (Dr phil.) at the University of Duisburg-Essen

• 1999 - 2004: Degree (Diploma) in Sociology at the Free University of Berlin