Memberships and others
Membership in Academic Associations
- American Sociological Association (ASA)
- Council for European Studies
- European Social Policy Research Network (ESPANET)(also Board Member)
- European Sociological Association (ESA)
- International Sociological Association (ISA), RC 11 und RC 19
- German Sociological Association (DGS)
- International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation
Editorial Position
- Co-Editor of Zeitschrift für Familienforschung/Journal of Family Research, from 6/2016
- Editorial Council International Journal of Society and Social Policy
- International Editorial Board of Sociolgia e Politiche Sociali
- Co-Editor of Work, Employment and Society; elected for the 3-years-period 1999-2002
- Co-Editor Book Series of Association of Research Institutes in Social Sciences in Germany (ASI) “Empirische Sozialforschung”
- (Research in Social Sciences), Springer
Organisation and Chair of Streams at Conferences
- § 2018 Stream at XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, Canada, with Hildegard Theobald, Unversity of Vechta
- § 2017 Stream at the ESPAnet Conference in Lisbon, with Patricia Frericks, University of Kassel
- § 2017 Stream at the Global Carework Summit in Lowell/USA, 6/2017, with Hildegard Theobald, University of Vechta
- § 2017 Stream at the Transforming Care Conference in Milan/Italy, 6/2017, with Hildegard Theobald, University of Vechta
- § 2016 Stream at the Espanet Conference “The new welfare state policies towards childcare and elderly care: consequences for gender, social and ethnic inequality”, Rotterdam, September 2016 (with Tine Rostgaard, University of Aalborg)
- § 2015 Session Chair "Dilemmas and Contradictions in Social Investment: The Case of Child Care" at the 22nd International Conference of Europeanists CES, Paris, July 2015
- § 2015 Session Organizer ‘The Role of Social Actors and Ideas in the Context of Marketization and Contra Trends’ at the 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Paris, July 2015 (with Patricia Frericks, University of Hamburg)
- § 2015 Stream at Espanet Conference “Comparative research about care policies, gender and work-family relationship – theoretical approaches, concepts and typologies (with Tine Rostgaard, Aalborg University) 3.-5.9.2015 at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense
- § Stream at the German Congress for Sociology, and Annual Conference of the German Association of Social Scientific Research Institutes, on Integration of Methods in Social Research, at the Congress for Sociology of the German Sociological Association, Trier, October 6-10, 2014 (with prof. Paul Hill and Prof. Juergen Schupp)
- § 2014 Stream at Espanet Conference “Marketization and Care in European Welfare States” (with Dr. Patricia Frericks, University of Hamburg), 3.-5.9. 2014, Oslo University
- § 2014 Stream at XVIII World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama, Japan with Patricia Frericks
- § 2014 Stream of RC19 “Marketization in welfare state policies and new social cleavages" , XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, 13-19 July 2014, Yokohama, Japan, (with Dr. Patricia Frericks, University of Hamburg)
- § 2013 Symposium with 3 Sessions at the CES Conference 2013, FAMILY POLICIES IN EUROPE IN TIMES OF AUSTERITY - THE NEW POLITICS AND IDEAS OF GENDER, EMPLOYMENT AND CHILDREN'S WELFARE , 25. Juni 2013 (with Prof. Dr. Tomasz Inglot, State University of Minnesota)
- § 2012 Ad hoc group „Gesellschaft und Tiere – soziologische Analysen eines ambivalenten Verhältnisses“ at the Congress for Sociology of the German Sociological Association, October 10, 2912
- § 2012 Stream “Transforming Family Policies and the Work-Family Relationship”, ESPAnet Conference 2012, Edinburgh, Sept. 6-8.
- § 2010 Stream “Local Care Policies and Care Work in Times of Global Crisis”, ESPAnet Conference 2010, Budapest, 19 September, with Prof. Dr. Hildegard Theobald, Vechta University
- § 2010 Stream at XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology in Gotenburg, Sweden “Change of welfare state policies and old and new tensions related to care” of RC 19, July 11-16
- § 2009 Stream “Paths of innovation of care policies in European welfare states”, ESPAnet Conference 2009, Urbino, 17-19 September 2009, with Prof. Dr. Hildegard Theobald, Vechta University
- § 2008 Stream “The cross-border diffusion of ideas and care workers in the field of long-term care in Europe”, ESPAnet Conference 2009, with Prof. Dr. Marta Szebehely, Stockholm University, Helsinki, September 18-20, 2008
- § 2007 Stream “Paradigm Change and new contradictions in the field of long-term care”, ESPAnet Conference 2007 “Social Policy in Europe: ‘Changing Paradigms in an Enlarging Europe”, Vienna 20-22 September, 2007
- § 2003 Session on ‘Restructuring of Social Care Arrangements”, ESPAnet Conference ‘Changing European Societies. The Role for Social Policy’ in Copenhagen
- § 1998 Ad-hoc-Group "Theoretische und methodologische Fragen der vergleichenden Geschlechterforschung in Europa - Arbeitsmarkt und Wohlfahrtsstaat im Wandel", Annual Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) in Freiburg (with Dr. Traute Meyer, Dr. Mechthild Veil)