Prof. Dr. Almut Peukert

• Care research, particularly sociology of labor and family work with focuses on gender-differentiated division of labor, 'active' fatherhood in organizations, and welfare state frameworks for labor and family work, as well as for family

• Gender sociology with focuses on couples and families, as well as un-/doing gender

• Social policy and welfare state research

• Methodology and methods of qualitative social research with focuses on methodology and social theory: social order and negotiations, grounded theory and situational analysis, as well as (partial) narrative couple and individual interviews

CV of Almut Peukert (english version, PDF)

since January 2019
Junior Professor of Sociology, particularly focusing on work, organization, and gender, University of Hamburg

2018 to 2021 
Project Leader in the DFG Research Project: "Ambivalent Recognition Order? Doing reproduction and doing family beyond the heterosexual nuclear family"

2018
Research Associate (DFG Individual Grant), Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Research Project: "Ambivalent Recognition Order? Doing reproduction and doing family beyond the heterosexual nuclear family"

2015 to 2017
Research Associate, Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Postdoc in the Sociology of Work and Gender Relations department under Prof. Wimbauer.

2014 to 2015
Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, University of Tübingen, Postdoc at the Chair of Microsociology and Gender Relations under Prof. Wimbauer

2014                           
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. soc.) with summa cum laude, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

2011 to 2014
Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, University of Tübingen

2010 to 2011             
Ph.D. Fellow of the State Graduate Funding Program Baden-Württemberg

2008 to 2010
Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, University of Tübingen

2008                           
Master of Arts in Political Science, Sociology, and Philosophy, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Publications (*published in English)

Journal Articles (*peer review)

• Auth, Diana; Peukert, Almut (2022): Gender Equality in the Field of Care: Policy Goals and Outcomes During the Merkel Era. In: German Politics 31 (1), pp. 177-196. DOI [external link].

• Peukert, Almut (2019): ‘Little children are not for dads?’ Challenging and undoing hegemonic masculinity. In: Gender, Work & Organization 26 (10), pp. 1451-1466. DOI [external link].

• Teschlade, Julia; Peukert, Almut (2019): Creating a family through surrogacy: Negotiating parental positions, familial boundaries, and kinship practices. In: GENDER – Journal for Gender, Culture, and Society 11 (2), pp. 56–70. DOI [external link].

Book Contributions

• Auth, Diana; Peukert, Almut (2023): Gender Equality in the Field of Care: Policy Goals and Outcomes During the Merkel Era. In: Petra Ahrens, Phillip Ayoub, and Sabine Lang (Eds.): Leading from Behind. Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era. London: Routledge, pp. 177–196.

Publications (*published in German, title translated to English)

Editorships

• Peukert, Almut; Seeliger, Martin; Jacobsen, Heike (Eds.) (2022): Working in the Corona Crisis (original title: „Arbeiten in der Corona-Krise”). Arbeit. Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik 31 (1-2).
• Peukert, Almut; Teschlade, Julia; Wimbauer, Christine; Motakef, Mona; Holzleithner, Elisabeth (Eds.) (2020): Parenthood and Family/ies beyond Heteronormativity and Binary Gender (original title: „Elternschaft und Familie/n jenseits von Heteronormativität und Zweigeschlechtlichkeit“). GENDER Special Issue. Opladen: Budrich. Available as a PDF in Open Access [external link].

Monographs

• Peukert, Almut (2015): Negotiations of Couples on Parental Leave. Division of Labor under New Conditions? (original title: „Aushandlungen von Paaren zur Elternzeit. Arbeitsteilung unter neuen Vorzeichen?“) Wiesbaden: Springer VS (Gender and Society, Vol. 61). DOI [external link].

Advancement Award 2015 for Dissertation by South West Metal Baden-Württemberg , Prize: 5,000 Euros

Review: Onnen, C./Stein-Redent, R. (2017): New (?) Developments in Family Sociology. Collective Review (original title: „Neues (?) aus der Familiensoziologie. Sammelbesprechung“). In: Sociological Revue, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 196-209.

Review: Aunkofer, S./Neumann, B. (2016): Review of Almut Peukert: Negotiations of Couples on Parental Leave. Division of Labor under New Conditions? (original title: „Aushandlungen von Paaren zur Elternzeit. Arbeitsteilung unter neuen Vorzeichen?“) Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015. In: querelles-net. Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, 17 (1).

• Peukert, Almut (2009): Cui Bono? Two Basic Income Models in Comparison: Solidarity Citizen's Income vs. Green Basic Income (original title: „Cui bono? Zwei Grundeinkommensmodelle im Vergleich: Solidarisches Bürgergeld vs. Grünes Grundeinkommen“). Master's Thesis. University of Tübingen. [Link to PDF].

JPN Foundation Research Award 2010, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Prize: 1,000 Euros.

Journal Articles

• Peukert, Almut; Beblo, Miriam; Lüth, Laura; Zimmermann, Katharina (2022): Work and Family in the Home Office? Contested Intrafamily Division of Labour in the Corona Crisis (original title: „Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit im Homeoffice? Innerfamiliale Arbeitsteilung in der Corona-Krise auf dem Prüfstand“). In: Sozialer Fortschritt 71 (1), pp. 29-51. DOI [external link].

• Seeliger, Martin; Peukert, Almut; Jacobsen, Heike (2022): Editorial: Surviving in the Office? Work in the Crisis of Production, Reproduction, and Legitimation (original title „Editorial: Überleben im Büro? Arbeit in der Produktions-, Reproduktions- und Legitimationskrise“). In: Almut Peukert, Martin Seeliger, and Heike Jacobsen (Eds.): Arbeiten in der Corona-Krise. Arbeit. Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik, 31 (1-2), pp. 1–11. DOI [external link].

• Teschlade, Julia; Peukert, Almut; Wimbauer, Christine; Motakef, Mona; Holzleithner, Elisabeth (2020): Parenthood and Family/ies beyond Heteronormativity and Binary Gender (original title: „Elternschaft und Familie/n jenseits von Heteronormativität und Zweigeschlechtlichkeit“). An Introduction. In: Almut Peukert, Julia Teschlade, Mona Motakef, and Christine Wimbauer (Eds.): Elternschaft und Familie/n jenseits von Heteronormativität und Zweigeschlechtlichkeit. GENDER Special Issue. Opladen: Budrich. pp. 9-27. Available as PDF in Open Access [external link].

• Peukert, Almut; Teschlade, Julia; Motakef, Mona; Wimbauer, Christine (2020): 'Real Mothers and Shadow Figures': On the Reproductive Technological and Everyday Construction of Parenthood (original title „‚Richtige Mütter und Schattengestalten‘: Zur reproduktionstechnologischen und alltagsweltlichen Herstellung von Elternschaft.”). In: Almut Peukert, Julia Teschlade, Christine Wimbauer, Mona Motakef, and Elisabeth Holzleithner (Eds.): Elternschaft und Familie/n jenseits von Heteronormativität und Zweigeschlechtlichkeit. GENDER Special Issue. Opladen: Budrich. pp. 60-76. Available as PDF in Open Access [external link].

• Peukert, Almut; Motakef, Mona; Teschlade, Julia; Wimbauer, Christine (2018): Social Parenthood – a Conceptual Stepchild of Family Sociology (original title „Soziale Elternschaft - ein konzeptuelles Stiefkind der Familiensoziologie”). In: Neue Zeitschrift für Familienrecht 5 (7), pp. 322–326.

• Peukert, Almut (2017): Involved fathers between work and family life: re/production of masculinity in negotiations within couples (original title „‚Involvierte’ Väter zwischen Beruf und Familie. Zur Re/Produktion von Männlichkeiten in paarinternen Aushandlungen“). In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung – Journal of Family Research 29 (1), pp. 90–112. DOI [external link].

• Peukert, Almut (2013): The debate on unconditional basic income (original title „Die Debatte zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen“). In: Gesellschaft. Wirtschaft. Politik. 62 (3), pp. 421–428.

• Peukert, Almut (2006): Parental Allowance: Is Germany on the Path to Gender Equality? (original title „Das Elterngeld: Deutschland auf dem Weg zu Geschlechtergerechtigkeit?“). In: WiP-Working Paper Series (34).

Book Contributions

• Peukert, Almut; Menz, Wolfgang; Carstensen, Tanja; Antelmann, Sandra; Baum, Franziska; Beblo, Miriam; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Böhnke, Petra; Clark, Zoe; Grün, Hannah; Hinrichs, Knut; Kerber-Clasen, Stefan; Liebsch, Katharina; Laschinski, Miriam; Lüth, Laura; Lohmann, Henning; Mucha, Anna; Rastetter, Daniela; Vogelpohl, Anne (2023): Care Transformations: Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Care Work (original title „Sorgetransformationen: Interdisziplinärer Forschungsverbund zur Care-Arbeit“). In: Uta Meier-Gräwe, Ina Praetorius, Feline Tecklenburg (Eds.): Wirtschaft neu ausrichten. Care-Initiativen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Barbara Budrich Publishers, Opladen, pp. 249-258.

• Carstensen, Tanja; Peukert, Almut (2022): Digital Transformation in Care Work. Transformation of Care through Robotics, Platformization, and Virtualization (orginal title „Digitale Transformation in der Sorgearbeit. Wandel von Care durch Robotisierung, Plattformisierung und Virtualisierung“). In: Mara Kastein, Lena Weber (Eds.): Care-Arbeit und Gender in der digitalen Transformation. Weinheim Basel: Beltz Juventa, pp. 52-67.

• Peukert, Almut (2021): Gender still at work? On the Relation of Employment and Family Work in Egalitarian Arrangements (original title „Gender still at work? Zur Relationierung von Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit in egalitären Arrangements). In: Simone Scherger, Ruth Abramowski, Anna Hokema, Irene Dingeldey, and Andrea Schäfer (Eds.): Geschlechterungleichheiten in Arbeit, Familie und Wohlfahrtsstaat. Frankfurt: Campus, pp. 363–388.

•  Linek, Leoni; Peukert, Almut; Teschlade, Julia; Motakef, Mona; Wimbauer, Christine (2021): Social Parenthood (original title „Soziale Elternschaft”). In: Lisa Haller and Alicia Schlender (Eds.): Handbuch Feministische Perspektiven auf Elternschaft. Opladen: Budrich, pp. 363-372. DOI [external link].

• Wimbauer, Christine; Teschlade, Julia; Peukert, Almut; Motakef, Mona (2018): Middle-Class Couple and Family Models between Persistence and Change. A Critique from a Couple and Heteronormativity Perspective (original title „Paar- und Familienleitbilder der ‚Mitte‘ zwischen Persistenz und Wandel. Eine paar- und heteronormativitätskritische Perspektive“). In: Nadine M. Schöneck and Sabine Ritter (Eds.): Die Mitte als Kampfzone. Wertorientierungen und Abgrenzungspraktiken der Mittelschichten. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 125–141.

• Peukert, Almut (2017): Between Consensus and Conflict. How Couples Negotiate Parental Leave (original title „Zwischen Konsens und Konflikt. Wie Paare Elternzeiten aushandeln“). In: Stephan Lessenich (Ed.): Geschlossene Gesellschaften. Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bamberg 2016, pp. 1–14. [Link to PDF].

• Hericks, Katja; Peukert, Almut (2017): Reproduction between Institutional Procreation and the Birth of New Models – a Foreword (original title „Reproduktion zwischen institutioneller Fortpflanzung und der Geburt neuer Leitbilder – ein Geleitwort“). In: Nora Lege: Wie Kinder Männer und Frauen machen. Über die alltägliche Konstruktion von Zweigeschlechtlichkeit im Kinderkriegen. Baden-Baden: Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, pp. 1–10.

Reviews

• Peukert, Almut; Offenberger, Ursula (2023): Rezension. Julia Nentwich/Franziska Vogt (Hrsg.), 2021: (Un)doing Gender Empirically: Qualitative Research in the Daycare Center (original title „(Un)doing Gender empirisch. Qualitative Forschung in der Kita"). In: GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft (2), S. 153–156. DOI [external link].

• Peukert, Almut (2018): Gender and Work. Review (original title „Geschlecht und Arbeit. Rezension“). In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 70 (1), pp. 161–164. Available as PDF in Open Access [external link].

• Peukert, Almut (2015): Changes in the Arrangements of Employment and Family Work? Double Review (original title „Wandel in den Arrangements von Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit? Doppelbesprechung“). In: Soziologische Revue 38 (2), pp. 243–251

Conferences

Conferences (*delivered in English)

• Organization of the international conference "Diverse Families: Parenthood and Family beyond Heteronormativity and Gender Binary" at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG), Humboldt University of Berlin, October 7-8, 2021, with Dr. Gabriele Jähnert, Leoni Linek, Prof. Mona Motakef, Julia Teschlade, Prof. Ulrike Vedder, Prof. Christine Wimbauer.

• Stream Convenor: "Beyond the Gender Binary: Empirical Research and Conceptual Developments in Times of Transformation", 11th International Interdisciplinary Conference Gender, Work & Organization (GWO) "Transforming Contexts, Transforming Selves: Gender in New Times", June 30 - July 2, 2021, digital, with Prof. Julia Nentwich, JProf. Ursula Offenberger, Dr. Tiina Suopajärvi.

• Stream Convenor: "Domestic Care Work under Time Pressure", 5th Transforming Care Conference on "Time in Care: The Temporality of Care Policy and Practices", June 24-26, 2021, online, with Dr. Tanja Carstensen.

• Organization of the international conference "Care | Migration | Gender. Ambivalent Interdependencies" at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG), Humboldt University of Berlin, January 30 - February 1, 2019, with Prof. Urmila Goel, Julia Teschlade, Prof. Christine Bauhardt, Dr. Gabriele Jähnert, Dr. Mike Laufenberg, Prof. Nivedita Prasad.

Conferences (*delivered in German, title translated to English)

2022

• Organization of the ad-hoc group "Polarized Care Worlds: Societal Negotiations of Care Gaps" (translated), 41st Congress of the German Society for Sociology "Polarized Worlds", September 26-30, 2022, Bielefeld, with PD Dr. Tanja Carstensen, Prof. Wolfgang Menz. 2021

2021

• Organization of the first Hamburg Summer School for qualitative methods: "Researching Non-Humans empirically" (translated) at the Hamburg Research Academy (HRA), September 27-28, 2021, with Dr. Hanna Göbel, Prof. Stefan Aykut.

• Organization of the ad-hoc group "(Self-)Care Beyond Romantic Love Before, During, and After Corona" (translated), Joint Congress of the German Society for Sociology (DGS) and the Austrian Society for Sociology (ÖGS) "Post-Corona Society? Pandemic, Crisis and Its Consequences", August 23-25, 2021, digital, with Prof. Christine Wimbauer, Leoni Linek, Prof. Mona Motakef, Julia Teschlade.

2020

• Organization of the ad-hoc group "Care Transformations under Pressure" (translated), 40th Congress of the German Society for Sociology "Society under Pressure", September 14-24, 2020, digital, with Prof. Katharina Zimmermann, Prof. Wolfgang Menz.

2019

• Organization of the forum "Love and Couple Relationships in Post-Growth Societies" (translated), 2nd Regional Conference of the DGS "Great Transformation: The Future of Modern Societies" and final conference of the DFG Collaborative Research Center "Land Grabbing, Acceleration, Activation. On (De-) Stabilization of Modern Growth Societies", September 23-27, 2019, Jena, with Julia Teschlade, Prof. Christine Wimbauer, Prof. Mona Motakef, Leoni Linek.

2018

• Organization of the ad-hoc group "Sociological Perspectives on Transnational Reproductive Economies: Reproductive Practices and their Global Interconnections" (translated), 39th Congress of the German Society for Sociology "Complex Dynamics of Global and Local Developments", September 24-28, 2018, Göttingen, with Julia Teschlade.

2016

• Organization of the ad-hoc group "Continuity and Change in Family Work: On the Phenomenon of 'New' Fathers" (translated), 38th Congress of the German Society for Sociology "Closed Societies", September 26-30, 2016, Bamberg, with Stefanie Aunkofer.

2015

• Organization of the Spring School "Qualitative Data Analysis" (translated) as part of the Graduate Academy of the University of Tübingen, April 9-10, 2015, Tübingen, with Prof. Jörg Strübing, Prof. Barbara Stauber, Prof. Monique Scheer, Anno Dederichs.

2014

• Organization of the Summer School "Writing in Qualitative Research" (translated) as part of the Graduate Academy of the University of Tübingen, September 15-16, 2014, Tübingen, with Ursula Offenberger, Prof. Jörg Strübing, Prof. Barbara Stauber, Prof. Monique Scheer.

• Organization of the Graduate Workshop "Qualitative Research Methods Workshop" (translated), University of Tübingen, April 3-4, 2014, with Ursula Offenberger, Sandra Fietkau.

Workshops (*Workshops delivered in German, title translated to English)

• Lecture "Gender Equality and Social Balance" (translated) at the specialist workshop: "The Development [of the Legal Construct ] of the Community of Shared Responsibility in Discussion," (translated) Future Forum Family, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, October 17, 2022, Berlin.

• "Rethinking Care. Division of Family Care at Key Milestones in Life," (translated) Workshop as part of "Men in Care and Nursing. Changing Gender Roles of Men and Women," (translated) German National Academic Foundation and Association of Alumni of the German National Academic Foundation, January 24-26, 2020, Berlin.

• "Writing Proposals and Exposés for Qualitative Studies," (translated) Workshop as part of the Tübingen Summer School 2019, July 29-30, 2019, Tübingen.

• "Active Fatherhood. Obstacles, Challenges, and Opportunities," (translated) Workshop as part of "The Man as a Feminist!? Male Role Model and Behavior in the Context of Equal Opportunities," (translated) German National Academic Foundation and Association of Alumni of the German National Academic Foundation, October 6, 2018, Berlin.

Teaching (*Lectures delivered in German, title translated to English)

• Introduction to Gender Studies (BA, Lecture)
  
  • Learn more about the lecture concept in the podcast "Flipped Gender" – Flipped Classroom in Teaching Gender Studies.
• Care Transformations: Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Care(work) Research (WiSo Graduate School)
• Who Cares? Gender-differentiated Care Work in Crisis (MA, Seminar)
• Work, Gender, and Sphere Separation in Post-Fordism (MA, Seminar)
• Transnational Reproductive Economies (MA, Seminar)
• Writing in Qualitative Research (WiSo Graduate School)
• Virtual Writing Coaching (WiSo Graduate School)

• 2023 Interview for the article "Not from well-earning parents" by Charlotte Parnack, DIE ZEIT, No. 43, October 12, 2023.

• Blog article: "The reduction of parental leave affects few and angers many," German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS), available on the social policy blog [external link], October 4, 2023.

• Interview: "Looking for a partner to have children. No romance!" in the ZEIT-WISSEN podcast, October 16, 2022.

• Book presentation "Feminist Perspectives on Parenthood," Hamburg Center for Gender & Diversity, University of Hamburg and TU Dortmund, October 6, 2022 (digital).

• "Family and LGBTQ – Diversity of Family Life Forms," in: impu!se for Health Promotion, No. 115, State Association for Health and Academy for Social Medicine Lower Saxony e. V., www.gesundheit-nds.de, pp. 11-12 (with Christine Wimbauer, Julia Teschlade, Mona Motakef, Almut Peukert, Leoni Linek).

• Interview for the article "The Shadow of the Pandemic: Why We Need to Rethink Work" by Carina Frey, Riffreporter, March 30, 2022.

• "Mother, Mother, Child - Families Today," panel discussion on current realities of rainbow families, Heinrich Böll Foundation Hessen, March 3, 2022 [digital].

• TV interview "Pandemic as an opportunity for rethink," rbb Abendschau, March 8, 2021/Berlin.

• "We want to know!" (UHH), lecture and discussion with students from Gymnasium Buckhorn on "Who does what? Parents between children, kitchen & career," February 24, 2021.

• Radio interview on caregiving and mental load in families by Louisa Schmidt, WDR 5, June 4, 2020.

• TV interview "How important is family nowadays?" on NRD "Mein Nachmittag," May 15, 2019.

• "What is a family – and if so, how many?" humboldt equal opportunities, 2019 (with J. Teschlade, M. Motakef, C. Wimbauer).

• Interview for the radio feature "Heroes and heroines against their will. The sandwich generation between children, work, and their own parents" by Dagmar Penzlin, NDR Info Spezial, January 1, 2019.

• LGBT*IQ families: Between recognition and inequality. Two sociologists examine the disadvantages of "rainbow families," in: HUMBOLDT. The newspaper of Alma Mater Berolinensis, Issue 7, Volume 62, May 2018 (with M. Motakef).

• Radio interview (Radio lohro, PolitRadar program) on "Gender roles in men and women," February 22, 2018, Berlin/Rostock.

• Interview for the article: "'Onbruikbaar': German mothers on discrimination after pregnancy. Parental leave in Germany: example or nightmare" by Angela Wals, deVolkskrant (Netherlands), December 10, 2016.

• Interview for the article: "Unconditional basic income. Paths to happiness or catastrophe" by Ann-Cathrin Karg, Yahoo News, June 3, 2016.

• Interview for the article: "Where are the househusbands? Do Berlin's stay-at-home dads really reverse the old gender paradigms? Maybe not." by Tony Andrews, exberliner, Issue 149, May 2016.

• Interview for the article: "Full-time mom, part-time job" by Tatjana Junker, Mannheimer Morgen, March 26, 2016.

• "Who cares? Negotiations of couples about parental leave," lecture, Future Discussion of the DGB Federal Executive Board: Parental LeavePlus – An Plus for more Partnership?, December 9, 2015, Berlin.

• Interview for the article "Parental leave for better earners" by Birgit Vey, Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, August 5, 2015.

• Radio interview (horads 88.6) on "Gender relations in Germany in 2015," Stuttgart Media University, February 11, 2015

• Maria Weber Grant from the Hans Böckler Foundation for Outstanding Female Junior Researchers 2023, Prize Money: 40,000 Euros.
• Hamburg Teaching Award 2021 for the lecture "Introduction to Gender Studies" in the summer semester of 2020, Prize Money: 10,000 Euros.
• Inclusion in the cross-university ProFiL program for leadership development and professionalization in research and teaching at TU Berlin, HU Berlin, and FU Berlin, 2016.
• Promotional Award from Südwestmetall Baden-Württemberg for the dissertation "Changing Division of Labor? How Couples Negotiate Parental Leave in the Family Formation Phase," 2015. Prize Money: 5,000 Euros.
• Research Award from the JPN Foundation at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main for the master's thesis "Cui bono? Two Basic Income Models in Comparison," 2011. Prize Money: 1,000 Euro