Dr. Stefanie Kley
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Professor for Ecologization and Quantitative Methods of Social Research
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International cooperation and expert activities
- 2025 Visiting Professor at the School of Social Ecology, University of California at Irvine (UCI), USA, at the invitation of Distinguished Prof. Jutta Heckhausen.
- Research collaboration on the topic “How enjoying nature benefits affective well-being” with Prof. J. Heckhausen, UCI, USA, Dr. T. Dovbischuk, New York University at Abu Dhabi (NYU), UAE, and Prof. J. Huinink, University of Bremen.
- Research cooperation on “The Eect of Spatial Mobility on Well-Being” with Prof. S. Vidal, Universitat Autònoma & Centre d'Estudis Demogracs in Barcelona, Spain, and Dr. N. Stawarz and Prof. H. Rüger, Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden & University of Mainz.
- Research cooperation on the topic “Contribution of Climate Change Adaptation Actions on Well-Being among the Southwestern Coastal People of Bangladesh with Md. Foezullah Talukder, Head of the Climate Change Program of the Christian Commission of Development in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Prof. Md. Nadiruzzaman, Maastricht University, Netherlands.
- Research collaboration on the topic “Influences on sustainable food practices” with Prof. Bente Halkier, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Research collaboration on “Morality and Cooperation” with Prof. A. Murayama, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, Prof. L. J. Skitka, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Prof. R. Miniesy, British University in Egypt (BUE); Prof. D. Rabie, Northeastern University London, UK, and Prof. V. Vignoles, University of Sussex, UK.
- Member of the Advisory Board of the journal “Population, Space and Place”, Wiley.
- Member of the Committee 260 “Market, opinion and social research services” at Austrian Standards, Vienna, Austria. The committee deals with the further development of the globally valid ISO standard 20252 entitled “Market, opinion and social research, including insights and data analytics - vocabulary and service requirements”.
Academic career
2025 Visiting professorship at the School of Social Ecology, University of California at Irvine (UCI), USA.
Since 2023 Chair of the Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences the Universität Hamburg.
2022 Visiting professorship at the at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, USA, .
Since 2020 Chair of the Board of the Association of Social Science Institutes (ASI); joined the Board in 2017.
2018-2023 Member of the Board of the Academy of Sociology (AS).
Since 2017 Representative of the University of Hamburg at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS).
Since 2017 Representative of University of 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 University of 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, at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Hamburg.
10/2011 – 09/2013 Deputy Professor of Sociology, in particular Social Science Research Methods, at the Department of Socioeconomics, University of Hamburg.
2010 Visiting scholarship at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University, USA.
04/2009 - 07/2015 Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Institute of Sociology, University of Hamburg, with Prof. Sonja Drobnic.
10/2008 Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the University of Bremen (supervisors: Prof. Frank Kalter and Prof. Krämer-Badoni).
2007 Visiting scholarship at the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
11/2003 - 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. Johannes Huinink.
2004 Award for outstanding theses from the German Sociological Association (DGS).
10/2003 Diploma in Sociology, Univerity of Hamburg.
01/1999 - 10/2003 Student employee at Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft Hamburg (steg).
09/1996 Diploma in Social Economics, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik (HWP) Hamburg.