Methods Center

Désirée Wägerle

Research Scientist at the Methods Center

Office
Methods Center
Haußerstr. 11
72076 Tübingen

desiree.waegerle@uni-tuebingen.de

 

Key Research Topics

  • 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
    • Poverty and basic security benefits for job seekers
  • Theories of Social Work
  • Research methods
    • Mixed methods
    • Qualitative evaluation research
    • Qualitative content analysis
    • Qualitative metaphor analysis

Research Projects

Doing transitions – the formation of transitions over the life course (Ongoing)

Profile

Since 2023
Academic staff member

Department of Social Pedagogy, Institute of Education, University of Tübingen

Since 2023
Associated Candidate of the Cooperative Research Training Group “Doing transitions – the formation of transitions over the life course”

University of Frankfurt and University of Tübingen

Since 2022
Research Scientist

Methods Center University of Tübingen

Since 2022
Lecturer

Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart

2022
M.A. Research and Development in Social Pedagogy / Social Work

University of Tübingen

2019
Erasmus Semester

University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

2020
B.A. Social Work

Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart

Publications

  • Wägerle, Désirée/ Bauer, Petra (i.E. 2025): “Families as recipients of early intervention services. The recipient perspective on services in the area of conflict between compensatory and complementary support. In: van Rießen, Bhatti, Gille & Jepkens (Eds.): Perspectives in motion. Current developments and discourses in the context of addressees, users and (non-)utilisation research” (translated). Springer Nature.
  • Bauer, Petra/Blick, Teresa/Gakos, Sofia/Gödel, Celina/Nietsch, Sarah/Wägerle, Désirée (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

  • Neumann, Sascha/ Sandermann, Philipp/ Schwenker, Vanessa/ Wägerle, Désirée (2024): “How do theories of social work emerge? An empirically controlled epistemology on the interplay between theory production and theory classification in social work.” (translated) Presentation as part of the Reflection and Interpretation Workshop for Research on Social Pedagogy, Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
  • Wägerle, Désirée (2024): Introduction in a Scoping Review on Inequalities in the Postdoctoral Phase in German Higher Education. Presentation as part of the graduate programme Cooperative Research Training Group of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen funded by the German Research Association (DFG), Tübingen.
  • Wägerle, Désirée/ Setareh, Ali (2024): AI-mazing Progress?! Exploring the Potential of Using Large Language Models as a Research Tool. Presentation as part of the graduate programme Cooperative Research Training Group of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen funded by the German Research Association (DFG), Tübingen.
  • Wägerle, Désirée (2024): Sh-AI-ping Future Research. A New AI-based Research-Approach in Examining Trajectories and Student Drop-out in Higher Education. Presentation at the European Educational Research Association Conference: Education in an Age of Uncertainty: memory and hope for the future, Nicosia.
  • Neumann, Sascha/Wägerle, Désirée (2024): Once upon a Polycrisis...ExpIoring the Pedagogisation of Crises Through Educational Ethnography. Presentation in the Symposium “Capturing the (Poly-)Crisis through Educational Ethnography: Conceptual Considerations, Methodological Potentials, and Empirical Insights” at the European Educational Research Association Conference: Education in an Age of Uncertainty: memory and hope for the future, Nicosia.
  • Wägerle, Désirée (2024): On the architecture of inequality: “An investigation of classification practices” (translated). Presentation at the Sectionsconference oft he German Sociological Association, Osnabrück.
  • 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 & 2023/2024)
  • Bachelor seminar "Propaedeutics - Techniques of Scientific Work" (BadenWürttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart, winter semester 2022/2023 & 2023/2024)
  • Bachelor seminar “Expertise in theories of social work & social pedagogy” (BadenWürttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart, winter semester 2023/224 & summer semester 2024)
  • Bachelor seminar “Introduction to social work theory” (BadenWürttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart, winter semester 2024/2025)
  • Masters seminar “Empirical social research Il: Evaluation, reporting, utilisation of results” (BadenWürttemberg Cooperative State University Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Heilbronn, summer semester 2024)