John Berten

Education:

• Dr rer pol, University of Bremen/Germany, 2020, dissertation title: Laboratories of social knowledge: How international organizations constructed social policy through numbers, 1919-2015
• M.A. Sociology, Bielefeld University, 2013
• B.A. Social Sciences, Bielefeld University, 2009

Employment History:

• 2024-ongoing - junior research group leader (Nachwuchsgruppenleiter) of the project "Soziale Sicherung im Krisenmodus" (SoSiKri; Social Security in a Crisis Mode), Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld/Germany
• 2022-2024 - post-doctoral researcher in the working group of Prof. Dr. Alexandra Kaasch (German and Transnational Social Policy), Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld/Germany
• 2019-2022 - researcher in the working group of Prof. Dr. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser (Comparative Public Policy), Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Institute of Political Science, Tübingen/Germany
• 2019 - teaching fellow in the working group of Prof. Dr. Alexandra Kaasch (German and Transnational Social Policy), Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld/Germany
• 2017-2019 - researcher in the working group of Prof. Lutz Leisering PhD (Social Policy and Sociology, Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld/Germany
• 2017 - visiting researcher at ACTORE (host: Prof. Koen Verhoest), Antwerp University, Antwerp/Belgium
• 2017 - visiting researcher at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (host: Prof. Annabelle Littoz-Monnet), Geneva/Switzerland
• 2014-2017 - PhD fellowship at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), University of Bremen/Jacobs University, Bremen/Germany
• 2013-2014 - research assistant at the working group of Prof. Lutz Leisering PhD (Social Policy and Sociology), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld/Germany
• 2010-2013 - student research assistant at the DFG-funded project group FLOOR (Financial, Assistance, Land Policy, and Global Social Rights; Bielefeld University and TU Dortmund); sub-group 'Social Cash Transfers – The Global Construction and Diffusion of the Right to a Monetary Minimum', headed by Professor Lutz Leisering PhD, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld/Germany