Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kley

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• Research stay at the University of California at Berkeley, School of Social Welfare, at the invitation of Prof. Neil Gilbert, PhD.
• Collaborative research project (completed) on the consequences of commuting on relationships and family with Prof. Dr. Michael Feldhaus, at Universität Oldenburg (project homepage)
• Working group Sustainable Lives at the Center for Sustainable Society Research at the University of Hamburg.
• Co-supervision of a dissertation project on migration in the context of climate change and security with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran in the CliCCS Cluster of Excellence.
• Member of the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability CEN at the University of Hamburg.

Since 2015 member of the Advisory Board of the Journal "Population, Space and Place".

In the past five years reviews for:

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW)
• Schweizerischer Nationalfonds
• Einstein Stiftung Berlin
• Population, Space and Place
• European Journal of Population
• Population Studies
• Comparative Population Studies
• Work and Stress
• Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• European Sociological Review
• European Societies
• Social Science Japan Journal
• American Sociological Review
• Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Applied Research on the Quality of Life
• Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 
• Sustainability
• Land
• Population and Environment 

Since 2023 Chair of the Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences the Universität Hamburg.

2022 Two-month research stay at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, at the School of Social Welfare.

Since 2020 Chair of the Board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute  (ASI); joined the Board in 2017.

2018-2023 Member of the Board of the Academy of Sociology (AS).

Since 2017 Representative of Universität Hamburg at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS).

Since 2017 Representative of Universität Hamburg at the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR).

Since 2017 Program director of the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs in Sociology and Chair of the Examination Board.

Since 2016 Professor for Sociology, in particular Ecologization and Quantative Methods of Social Research at the Universität Hamburg.

In the winter semester 2015/16 Senior researcher in the DFG Research Unit "Horizontal Europeanization" (FOR 1539) at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg with Prof. Martin Heidenreich.

10/2013 – 09/2015 Deputy Professor of Sociology, in particular Social Science Research Methods, in the Department of Social Sciences at the Universtität Hamburg.

10/2011 – 09/2013 Deputy Professor of Sociology, in particular Social Science Research Methods, in the Department of Socioeconomics at the Universität Hamburg.

2010 Four-months research stay at Yale University, USA, at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course.

04/2009 - 07/2015 Research assistant (PostDoc) at the University of Hamburg, Institute of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences, Research Unit Methods of Empirical Social Research with Prof. Sonja Drobnic.

10/2008 Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Bremen.

2007 Two-month research stay at the University of Amsterdam, with Prof. Clara Mulder.

10/2005 - 03/2009 Research assistant at the University of Bremen, Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, Department of Theory and Empiricism of Social Structure and in the project "Migration Decisions in the Life Course" (funded by the German Research Foundation) with Prof. Dr Johannes Huinink.

11/2003 - 09/2005 Research assistant at the University of Bremen, Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology, Theory and Empiricism of Social Structure, with Prof Johannes Huinink.

2004 Award for outstanding theses from the German Sociological Association.

10/2003 Diploma in Sociology, Universität Hamburg.

01/1999 - 10/2003 Student employee at Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft Hamburg (steg).

09/1996 Diploma in Social Economics, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik (HWP) Hamburg.

Topics

Ideally, topics for final theses are developed from in-depth or profile seminars that you have attended with me or other lecturers in the field of methods. In principle, I am open to all sociological topics that are to be worked on using empirical social research methods. However, a prerequisite for my assessment of your thesis is usually that you have attended at least one in-depth seminar in the field of methods. This applies equally to first and second assessments.

Methods

In principle, you should use the approaches and methodological procedures that you have learnt during your studies. It is not the purpose of a thesis to make a new contribution to a theory or to the state of research, or to apply statistical procedures that you did not learn during your studies.

Contact me

Please come to my office hours to discuss your possible topic, after prior registration by email. If you are already at an advanced stage of finding a topic, please submit a two-page synopsis. The submission of an exposé is a prerequisite for the binding acceptance of a review. The synopsis should contain at least Your name, working title, research question, theoretical basis or information on the state of research, information on the data used and the method of analysis, important literature. Furthermore, a rough outline can be discussed.

In the case of initial supervision, you can receive advice at any time during consultation hours or by email/telephone or similar. In the case of a second supervision, no further consultation beyond the synopsis is usually necessary.