Prof. Dr. Katja M?hring

I lead the Chair of Sociology, especially Family and Work at the Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg and am project leader at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. Before, I was Assistant Professor of Sociology of the Welfare State and from 2018 to 2021 Interim Chair of Macrosociology at the University of Mannheim. I studied Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin and received my PhD from the University of Cologne in November 2013. I was then a postdoctoral fellow at the SOCIUM Research Center at the University of Bremen, and in 2017 a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

What factors influence gender inequality in employment histories and retirement incomes across Europe? How does caregiving affect women’s labour force participation? Did the Corona crisis increase inequality in work and care? How do migrants in Europe age well? Which quotas for leadership positions are accepted by citizens and why? These and related questions are the focus of my research agenda.

Currently, I lead the international research project “Do migrants in Europe age well? A mixed methods and intervention study in four countries (MIG-AGE)” (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation) and the project "Life Course, Wealth and Retirement Income in East and West Germany: A Cohort and Gender Comparison" (funded by the German Pension Insurance "Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung"). Since 2019, I have been co-project leader of the interdisciplinary junior research group “Integration of Migrants and Attitudes towards the Welfare State (IMES)” (in in cooperation with the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, funded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs).

I am co-editor of the Journal of Social Policy Research, member of the editorial board of the journal Work, Aging and Retirement, and board member of the Section Social Policy of the German Sociological Association, and active in the ESPAnet Germany network.

Dear students 

Check out the chair's course program in BA and MA Sociology. We emphasize the combination of learning theoretical knowledge and practical (research) skills.

I and the team are happy to take on the supervision of Bachelor's and Master's theses. Please contact me personally or at sfa(at)uni-bamberg.de

Contact

Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg
Feldkirchenstra?e 21 / Room 00.19c
96052 Bamberg

phone. +49 (0)951/863-3148  / -3122

e-mail: katja.moehring(at)uni-bamberg.de

Research interests

• Life course sociology
• Age and retirement
• Gender inequality and attitudes
• Comparative welfare state research
• Multi-level and panel analyses