Forschung

Research Project of the German Research Council (DFG), as part of the OIKON project group: Institutional Framework of senior care by family members between market logic and family solidarity – conditions for institutional incomplementarity, Principal Investigator, 2014-2017, 353.303 Euro.

DFG-Projekt FAMICAP

Soziologische Forschungsgruppe zum Mensch-Tier-Verhältnis

Collaborative Research Program NICE Welfare "Narratives, Indicators and Concepts in Changing European Welfare Societies", Team of University of Southern Denmark Pernille Tanggard Andersen, Kim Brixen, Bernard Jeune, Prof. Paul Marx, Klaus Petersen, Peter Simonsen, and international team Daniel Béland, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada; Olli Kangas, KELA Helsinki, Finland; Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany; Charles Ragin, UC Irvine, USA, Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, USA, financed by SDU Horizon 2020, 2014-2017.

Birgit Pfau-Effinger was main applicant and is the coordinator of a research project group "Strengthening of Economic Principles and Mismatch in Institutional Settings” OIKON. It includes four research projects funded by the DFG (German Research Council), University of Hamburg and University of Leipzig, 2014-2017, with 1.479.000 Euro; Principal Investigators Jürgen Beyer, University of Hamburg; Holger Lengfeld, University of Leipzig; Constanze Senge, University of Halle, and Birgit Pfau-Effinger, University of Hamburg (Co-Ordinator).

• FLOWS – International Collaborative EU Research Project

  International Research Project in the 7th EU Framework Programme FLOWS “Impact of Local Welfare Systems on Female Labour Force Participation and Social Cohesion , Coordinator: Per H. Jensen, Aalborg University, Birgit Pfau-Effinger Co-Leader of WP1, WP3 and WP6,  Leader of Hamburg team; 2, 7 Million Euros total, 2011-2014, Uni Hamburg 227.000 Euros

• German Research Council (DFG) Grant for an international Conference ‘Reforming Activation – A New Turn in Policy? University of Hamburg, December 2010, with Patrizia Aurich

• Invited Co-organiser of the Sloan Network Panel Meeting ‘Intended and Unintended Consequences of Work-Family Policy: Lessons through International Comparison’, April 15, 2009, Utrecht, Netherlands, with Judy Casey, Judi C. Casey, MSW Principal Investigator and Director, Sloan Work and Family Research Network Boston College Graduate School of Social Work; Suzan Lewis, Ph.D, Middlesex University, Organizational Psychology; Moshe Semyonov, Ph.D, University of Illinois-Chicago, Sociology and Tel-Aviv University, Sociology of Labor; Stephen Sweet, Ph.D., Ithaca College, Sociology

• German Research Council (DFG) Grant for an international Conference ‘Local Social Policy -Concepts, Types and Governance’, University of Hamburg, 23-24 April 2009, with Ralf Och

• EU Network of Excellence  RECWOWE ‘Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe 6th Framework Programme, coordinated by Denis Bouget, Maison de Sciences de l’Homme Nantes; International Partner, leader of Hamburg team and member of Governing Committee,  2006-2011

• Leader of International Collaborative Research Task  of RECWOWE ‘Tensions related to care in European welfare states’, with Tine Rostgaard, SFI Copenhagen  (Co-Leader 2009-2011), Anneli Anttonen, University of Tampere (Co-Leader 2007-2009), Per  H. Jensen, University of Aalborg; Teppo Kröger, University of Tampere; Ingela Naumann, University of Edinbourgh, 117.200, 2007-2011

• German Research Council (DFG) Grant for Research Project ‘The Local Restructuring of Long-Term Care – Cultural Values, Actors and Conditions of Action’, (with Ursula Dallinger), 164.000 euro, 2006-2008

• EU Project Specfic Support Action in the 6th EU Framework Programme: Women in Nano Sciences, coordinated by Annette Gebert, Technical University of Dresden, overall budget 535.620, Univ. Hamburg 28.260 euro, 2005-2007

• EU project 6th EU Framework Coordination Action ‘The Impact of Changing Family Forms and Life Courses on the Wellbeing of Children: The Role of Social Policy and Family Legislation (WELLCHI), co-ordinated by Lluis Flaquer, CIIMU, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; overall budget 600.000 Euro, Univ. Hamburg: 59.000 euros, 2004-2006

• EU Grant for Coordination of international EU research project  FIWE ‘Formal and informal work in Europe. A Comparative analysis of their changing relationship and their impact on social integration’), with seven sub-projects in Universities of six European countries (Denmark, Finland, U.K., Spain, Poland and Germany); 1.060.000 euros, 2003-2005

• Research Project ‘Long-term Care Insurance as Gender Policy – Consequences in East and West Germany’, (with Christoph Köhler/Universität Jena and Ursula Dallinger), financed by the Research Ministry of the Federal Republic of Thuringia, 61.400 euros, 2003-2005

• Research Project ‘Professionalisation and Socio-Cultural Construction of Parenthood in Comparison of Germany and France’ at the Center of Feminist Studies/Gender Studies of the University of Bremen (with Ulrike Liebert); financed by the University of Bremen, 2000-2003

• Grant for Updating, English Language Translation and Publication of my habilitation book in the U.K: Culture, Welfare State and Women’s Employment in Europe; Aldershot: Ashgate 2004, financed by the ‘Inter Nationes’ Programme of the German Government, 2002

• Grant for Research Project of the Enquetekommission ‘Citizen’s Engagement/Voluntary Work’ of the German Parliament on ‘Change of Structures and Motivations of Citizen’s Commitment in Voluntary Work – The Gender Dimension’ (with Fritz Böhle and Ernst Kistler); financed by the German Parliament, 2000-2003

• COST A13 Action ‘Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies and Citizenship’ of the EU; financed by the European Union, International Partner, Member of Management Committee, Chair of Stream on ‘Gender Issues’; 2000-2003; Scientific Mission‘ of the COST A13 Action Programme on  ‚Social Care Services, Labour Market Exclusion and Social Integration‘ in co-operation with the University of  Utrecht, the Netherlands; financed by the European Union, 2000

• International Research Project ’Gender Differences in Employment Strategies During Economic Transition in Russia’; Chair: Sarah Ashwin, London School of Economics; financed by INTAS, International Partner, 1999-2002

• Vice chair of the Scientific Network ‘Network Gender Inequality and the European Regions’ of the European Science Foundation (Chair: Simon Duncan, University of Bradford), 1994-1997

• Research Project on ‘Biographical Discontinuities in the Lifecourse of Women – Risk or Chance?’; financed by the Chamber of White Collar Workers in Bremen, 1991

• Research Project ‘Structures of Unemployment in the region of Bremen’; financed by the Chamber of Manual Workers and the Chamber of White Collar Workers Bremen, 1988

• Grant for a Research Stay at the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Cambridge, U.K; funded by the Anglo-German Foundation, 1988

• Grant for Research Project: ‘The Shaping of Working Times of Parents in Social and Labour Market Policies’, (with Birgit Geissler); financed by the Green Party in the German Parliament, 1986-1987

• Co-Leader of Research Project ‘Dependent Self-Employment of Driving Sellers’, financed by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation of Economic and Social Research, 1985