Karoline Mikus
Office
Keplerstraße 2, room 145
72074 Tübingen
+49 7071 29 77461
Office hours
Mon 2:30 – 4 pm, by email appointment
Email: karoline.mikus@uni-tuebingen.de
Short biography
since October 2015
Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Sociology and the LEAD Graduate School & Research Network, University of Tübingen.
Research interests: Educational inequalities, early childhood
09/2013–07/2015
Master of Arts in Sociology, University of Mannheim
Areas of specialization: quantitative social research, family, education and labour market / Master thesis: "The Effect of Childhood Health on Educational Outcomes" (grade 1.7)
09/2009–07/2012
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with minor in educational sciences, University of Mannheim
Areas of specialization: quantitative social research, social psychology, general sociology and special sociological disciplines / Bachelor thesis: "The connection between environmental awareness and ecologically responsible behaviour. A matter of awareness or costs?" (grade 1.0)
09/2011–05/2014
Stays at universities abroad
Indiana University, USA (2013-2014); Kingston University, UK (2013); Universität Bern (2011-2012)
Research interests
- Educational inequalities
- Cultural capital
- Early childhood education
- Parenting
- Children's skill development
PhD-project
Conference presentations
Organized leisure activities in early childhood and social inequalities in cognitive and social skills
Poster presentations:
- Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies Konferenz, Amsterdam (07/2018)
- ISA RC 28 Spring Meeting, Seoul (03/2018)
Channels of reproduction: Parents' transmission of cultural capital and children's conversion of cultural capital into high educational performance
Poster presentations:
- ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Köln (03/2017)
- Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung Tagung, Heidelberg (03/2017)
- National Educational Panel Study Nutzerkonferenz, Bamber (07/2016)
Teaching
Summer term 2019
Bachelor
- Childhood Socialization and Skill Development in a Digital Age (seminar - module B5.2)
Winter term 2018/19
Bachelor
- Seminar: Childhood Socialization and Skill Development in a Digital Age (BA)