Chair of Sociology, especially Family and Work

We are hiring: Postdoctoral Research Associate (m/f/d)(270.0 KB), 100%, for an initial period of three years (extension possible), start date flexible between July and October 2025.

We welcome applications by May 31, 2025.

The conference “Social Policy and Inequality in the Polycrisis”(886.7 KB) was organised by the SFA Chair team at the University of Bamberg in March 2025.

MIG-AGE project partner Prof. Dr. Ba?ak Bilecen (University of Groningen) presented her research in the first colloquium of the Institute of Sociology.

Welcome!

Our research and teaching activities are in the fields of life course sociology and comparative welfare state research, each with a focus on the topics of family and work.

From an analytical-empirical perspective, we deal with questions concerning the reconciliation of family and work, life course and age(ing), gender inequality in income and wealth, and political attitudes. We usually apply quantitative methods such as sequence analysis, panel or multilevel-regression. In our international research project MIG-AGE, we pursue a mixed methods approach to investigate healthy aging and well-being of older migrants in Europe.