Methods Center

Désirée Wägerle

Research Scientist at the Methods Center

Office
Methods Center
Haußerstr. 11
72076 Tübingen

desiree.waegerle@uni-tuebingen.de

Research

Main research and research interests

  • Social inequality and transitions
    • Inequality structures in the postdoc phase as a transitional phase
    • Inequalities in early childhood
    • Inequalities at the transition from school to work
    • Inequalities at the transition from SGB VIII to SGB II
  • Theories of Social Work
  • Research methods
    • Mixed methods
    • Qualitative evaluation research
    • Qualitative content analysis
    • Qualitative metaphor analysis

Curriculum Vitae

since 10/22
Research Scientist

at the Methods Center University of Tübingen

since 10/22
Lecturer at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart
10/2020 - 09/2022
Master of Arts

in Research and development in social pedagogy / social work University of Tübingen

01/2019 - 03/2019
ERASMUS-Stay Gothenburg (SWE)
10/2017 - 09/2020
Bachelor of Arts

in Social Work at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart

Publications

Publications

  • Bauer, Petra/Blick, Teresa/Gakos, Sofia/Gödel, Celina/Nietsch, Sarah/Wägerle, Désirée Wägerle (2022): Families as addressees in Early Childhood Intervention. Summary report on the teaching research project in the Master's programme „Research and development in social pedagogy / social work“.

Scientific Presentations

  • Wägerle, Désirée (2023): Fair Chance? Inequalities in the postdoc phase using a doing transitions approach: A discussion starter./ Chacun son tour? Inégalités dans la phase postdoctorale dans l'approche doing transitions: Pour lancer la discussion. Presentation at the German-French Conference: Insights and Reflections on the Concepts of "Bifurcations" & "Doing Transitions" / Regards et Réflexions sur les concepts de „Bifurcations“ & „Doing Transitions“
  • Landhäußer, Sandra; Neumann, Sascha; Wägerle, Désirée (2023): The agony of choice: On the selective representation of theories of Social Work in textbook literature.
    Presentation on the ‘Theorie-AG’ 2023 of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) - Commission on Social Pedagogy, Bielefeld.
  • Wägerle, Désirée (2023): "Families as Addressees in Early Interventions. Insights from a social pedagogical research perspective on offers in the field between compensatory and complementary support." Presentation at the Conference "Perspectives in Motion" – Current Developments and Discourses in the Context of Addressee, User, and (Non-) Use Research.
  • Wägerle, Désirée (2023): Methodological Relationing in the Context of Mixed-Methods Studies. Lecture in the context of the working group on methodological-methodological exchange of the Empirie-AG 2023 of the German Educational Research Association (DGfE) research network Social Pedagogy, Bielefeld.
  • Wägerle, Désirée (2023): Post-doc, quo vadis? An examination of social inequalities in the postdoc phase. Poster presentation at international conference „Doing Transitions in the Life Course“, 11th Mai 2023, Frankfurt am Main.
  • Gakos, Sofia und Wägerle, Désirée (2022): Presentation of the research results of the teaching research project "Families as addressees in Early Childhood Intervention" under the direction of Prof. Petra Bauer. Presentation to the Youth Welfare and Education Committee in the district of Böblingen.
  • Nietsch, Sarah und Wägerle, Désirée (2022): Presentation of the research results of the teaching research project "Families as addressees in Early Childhood Intervention" under the direction of Prof. Petra Bauer and presentation of the results of the study on improving cooperation between gynaecologists in private practice and the network coordinators in the Early Childhood Intervention Network. Presentation at the Central Round Table Early Childhood Intervention in Böblingen.

Memberships in Professional Organizations

  • The German Association of Social Work (DGSA)
  • German Educational Research Association (DGfE), research networks „Social Pedagogy and Early Childhood Education“ and „Empirical Educational Research“ 

Teaching

  • Bachelor seminar "Propaedeutics - Introduction to Studies and Science" (BadenWürttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart, winter semester 2022/2023)
  • Bachelor seminar "Propaedeutics - Techniques of Scientific Work" (BadenWürttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart, winter semester 2022/2023)