Prof. Dr. Alexandra Scheele

Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr Alexandra Scheele

since 24 May 2023 Associate Professor in the Department of Labour and Economic Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University

since 01.10.2021 departmental teaching staff in the Department of Labour and Economic Sociology, Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University

Winter semester 2019/20 to summer semester 2021 Academic Senior Councillor (retired) in the Department of Labour and Economic Sociology, Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University

Winter semester 2017/18 to summer semester 2019 Deputy Professor of Labour and Economic Sociology, Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University

Winter semester 2015/16 to summer semester 2017 Deputy Professor of Gender Sociology, Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University

10/2011-11/2017 Academic assistant at the Chair of Economic and Industrial Sociology at BTU Cottbus Senftenberg (temporarily on leave and parental leave)

Winter semester 14/15 Substitute for the Chair of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University

Summer semester 2011 Visiting Professor for Sociology of Labour and Gender Relations, Institute for
Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Winter semester 2010/11 Substitute for the Faculty of Sociology, Faculty of Political Science at the University of Erfurt

04/2007-10/2007 Visiting Fellow as part of the T.H. Marshall Fellowship Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE)

2006-2011 Research assistant at the Chair of Women's Studies/Sociology of Gender Relations, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam (temporarily on leave and parental leave)

06/2002-06/2005 Research assistant in the research project "GendA - Netzwerk feministische Arbeitsforschung" at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin-Brandenburg (BMBF funding initiative "Zukunftsfähige Arbeitsforschung")

12/1999-12/2001 Research assistant for the project "European Industrial Relations Observatory - EIROnline" at the Institute of Economic and Social Sciences at the Hans Böckler Foundation

10/1995-05/1998 Research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the Philipps University of Marburg.

Research
since April 2024 Member of the coordination team of the focus area "ConGeD - Contestations of Gender and Democracy" and member of the focus area "FAITH - Foundations and Implications of Human-AI Teamwork"

PI in the DFG Research Training Group 2951 "Cross-border Labour Markets: Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions"
2021-2023 Project management "Double Fragility: The Care Crisis in the Corona Crisis" (Volkswagen Foundation)

2020/2021 Head (PI) of the research group "Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights" at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University

2020-2021 Project partner "Examination of equal pay in the workplace and digitalisation" (Hans Böckler Foundation)

since 2016 Expert for "Scientific analysis and advice on gender equality in the EU - SAAGE" of the European Commission, DG Justice

2014-2016 Project work on "Gender Pay Gap: New solutions for an old problem. Developing transnational strategies together with trade unions and gender equality units to tackle the gender pay gap." (EU PROGRESS)

2012-2015 Expert for the "European Network of Experts on Gender Equality (ENEGE)" of the European Commission, DG Justice

2008-2011 Expert for the expert network "Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, Health Care and Long-term Care" (EGGSI) of the European Commission, DG Employment

01/1999-03/1999 Author of the study "Berlin-specific stocktaking on the future of work" on behalf of the Enquete Commission "Sustainable Berlin" of the Berlin House of Representatives

01/1997-12/1997 Project implementation "Flexible Working and the Reconciliation of Work and Family" - Country study Germany (European Commission DG V/Coordination: Dr Diane Perrons, LSE)

02/1996-09/1996 Project work on "Vocational Training in Thuringia" (Hans Böckler Foundation), Structural and Technology Consultancy Agency Erfurt

"'Degrees'"
July 2006 Doctorate (Dr.phil.) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Philipps University of Marburg (Magna cum laude)

Editorial activities
Since October 2022 Editor and editorial director of the Journal of Sociology, De Gruyter Oldenburg

Since January 2004 Co-editor of the book series Arbeit, Demokratie und Geschlecht, Westfälisches Dampfboot Münster

Since June 1998 Co-editor and member of the editorial board of the journal Femina Politica, Barbara Budrich Publishers Opladen

Academic education
April 2017: Doctor of Social Sciences habilitatus (Dr. rer. pol. habil.), Faculty of Economics, Law and Society, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg

2006 Doctorate (Dr.phil.) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Philipps University of Marburg (Magna cum laude)

1995 Magistra Artium at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Philipps University of Marburg (very good)

1990-1995 Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg: Political Science, German Language and Literature and Media Studies

06/1994-08/1994 Summer school at the University of California in Berkeley: Introduction into Women's Studies

1989-1990 Studies at the University of Dortmund: English and German (teacher training)

Scholarships and awards
02/2009-02/2010 Selected participant in the cross-university "ProFiL programme for leadership development in science"

04/2007-10/2007 Research fellowship at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences as part of the "T.H. Marshall Fellowship Programme in European Social Policy" of the Volkswagen Foundation

10/1998-05/2002 Doctoral scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation

Memberships, offices and expert activities

Memberships: German Sociological Association (DGS) as well as the Labour and Industrial Sociology Section and the Gender Studies Section of the DGS; German Political Science Association (DVPW); "Politics and Gender" working group in the DVPW; "Research and Cooperation Centre for Work, Democracy and Gender - GendA" at the Philipps University of Marburg

Elected member of the Section Council "Gender Studies" in the DGS (2016-2021)

Elected member of the advisory board of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) (2009-2012)

Spokesperson of the working group "Politics and Gender" in the German Political Science Association (DVPW) (2006-2008)

Member of the scientific project advisory board of the Hans Böckler Foundation for the project "On the way to becoming a labour market citizen? New concepts of labour market policy using the example of single mothers" (2004-2006)

Reviewer for the journals "Gender, Work & Organisation", "Gender", "Social Science Research", "Arbeit" and "Industrielle Beziehungen", among others