Service to the profession
Scientific advisory board memberships: | |
International Editorial Advisory Board of the journal „Families, Relationships, Societies” | 2016-2019 |
Scientific Advisory Board of Foundation "Haus der kleinen Forscher" (“Little Scientists' House”) | 2015-2020 |
Junior Research Group “Medicalising and psychologising social problems: Challenges and opportunities for social policy (MEPYSO)” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs | 2017-2020 |
Project “Evaluation of parental leave in Luxembourg, focus on couples’ strategies and the role of workplace characteristics (PARENT)” funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund | 2017-2019 |
Projects ‘Flexible living and working‘ and ‘Daddy at home, mummy at work...?"’ funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation | 2016-2018 |
Project ‘Atypical employment and key life domains’ funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation | 2014-2015 |
Referee for scientific journals:
American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review; Acta Sociologica; Child Indicators Research; Comparative Population Studies; Demography; European Sociological Review; Fathering; Feminist Economics; Frühe Bildung (Early Education); Gender & Society; International Journal of Comparative Sociology; Journal of European Social Policy; Journal of Family Issues; Journal of Happiness Studies; Journal of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies; Journal of Marriage and Family; Journal of Social Policy; Population Studies; Research in Labor Economics; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility; Schmollers Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies); Social Science Research; Sociology of Education; Work, Employment & Society; World Development; Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaften; Zeitschrift für Familenforschung (Journal of Family Research); Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Referee for grant applications:
European Research Council; Flemish Research Council; Hans-Böckler Foundation; Swiss Research Council
Conference organisation:
Organiser, Workshop “Current social challenges in China and Germany”, University of Tübingen, September 2019
Co-Organiser, Conference ‘ ECEC quality – new interdisciplinary perspectives on an old issue’, DIW Berlin, March 2017
Organiser, Conference ‘Greater gender equality, (un)happier families?’, Cambridge University, December 2010
Co-organiser, Policy conference on gender inequalities, Cambridge University, December 2009
Other professional roles
Head of Department, Sociology, University of Tübingen Mar 16 – Nov 18
International exchange coordinator, Sociology, University of Tübingen Mar 16 – Mar 17
Ph.D. student representative, Social Policy Department, London School of Oct 05 – Sep 08
Economics, UK