Honors, Awards and Appointments
Honors, Awards and Appointments
- Member of Board of ESPAnet (Network for European Social Policy Analysis) from 01/2016
- Journal article in Journal of Social Policy among top ten of most cited articles of all articles ever published in the journal, last view 13.3.2017 (Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2005): Culture and Welfare State Policies: Reflections on a Complex Interrelation. Journal of Social Policy 34, 1, pp. 1-18).
- Journal Article in European Societies among top ten of most cited articles of all articles ever published in the journal, last view 13.12.2016 (Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (2005): Welfare State Policies and the development of care arrangements. European Societies 7, 2, 321-347)
- The British Sociological Association has 2012 appointed a journal article that I published in Work, Employment & Society as “favourite WES article from the last 25 years” (Pfau-Effinger, Birgit (1993): “Modernisation, Culture and Part-Time Employment: The Example of Finland and West Germany”, Work, Employment and Society 7,3).
- Advisory Board of the Cluster for Research on the Informal Sector and Policy (CRISP) at the University of Sheffield since 2012
- Honorary Professor for Comparative Welfare State Research of the Southern Danish University, appointed for period 2011-2014.
- Nominated and Included by the German Research Council (DFG) for the “Online Portal of Outstanding Women Academics and Scientists” AcademiaNet’, since 2010.
- Member of the Council for the Collaborative Research Programs of the German Research Council (DFG), 1/2008-12/2011 and 1/2012-31/2014
- Board of Directors of the Association of the Research Institutes for Social Sciences (ASI) since 2006
- Advisory Board of the European Data Centre for Work and Welfare of the EU Network of Excellence “Reconciling Work and Welfare” (RECWOWE) 2006-2011
- Governing Committee of the 6th EU Framework Programme Network of Excellence „Reconciling Work and Welfare“, and Co-Leader of the Research Task “Care between Work and Welfare in European Welfare States” (RECWOWE 2006-2011)
- Founding Director and Member of Board of Directors of the Research Institute „Centre for Globalisation and Governance” (CGG) of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, and for several periods Executive Scientific Director, since 2004
- Management Committee and chair of the Working Group “Gender Issues” of the COST A13 Action Programme der EU „Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies and Citizenship“ (2009-2003)(Chair Per H. Jensen, University of Aalborg)
- Vice Chair of the Scientific Network "Gender Inequality and the European Regions" der European Science Foundation (Chair: Prof. Dr. Simon Duncan, University of Bradford) (1996-1998)
- Board of Directors of the German Association for Labour Market Research in Social Sciences (SAMF) (1991-1998)
- Scientific Advisory Board Member for the National Research Programme (NFP) "Problems of the welfare state" of the Swiss National Science Foundation
- Board Member of the „Centre for International Welfare Research“ at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena (with Prof. Dr. Michael Opielka) (2000-2002)
- 1991 Habilitation Stipendium of the University of Bremen