Katja M?hring

// CURRENT POSITIONS

• Professor of Sociology, especially Family and Work
• Faculty Member at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences
• External fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
• Fellow at the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (Difis)

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// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. M?hring is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students in the areas of comparative research on life courses and social inequality with micro data, age(ing) and retirement, family and work, gender inequality, political attitudes and the well-being of migrants.

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// RESEARCH

One focus of Professor Dr. M?hring’s research is life course sociology. Here, she is especially interested in employment and family trajectories, and how these relate to well-being in old age and inequalities between genders and (non-)migrants. The second focus of her research is political sociology. She is particularly interested in attitudes toward social policy and toward diversity/anti-discrimination measures. In her research, she integrates micro- and macro-level perspectives using comparative and longitudinal data as well as mixed methods.

Research Projects:                                              

• Do migrants in Europe age well? A mixed methods and intervention study in four countries (MIG-AGE), Volkswagenstiftung
• Lebenslauf, Verm?gen und Alterseinkommen in Ost- und Westdeutschland: Ein Kohorten- und Geschlechtervergleich (AGE-WEALTH), Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung (FNA) / Deutsche Rentenversicherung
• Integration of migrants and attitudes towards the welfare state, F?rdernetzwerk Interdisziplin?re Sozialforschung (FIS) / Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS)

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

M?hring, K., Zinn, S., & Ehrlich, U. (2023). Family care during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: Longitudinal evidence on consequences for the well-being of caregivers. European Journal of Ageing, 20(1), 15. doi.org/10.1007/s10433-023-00761-2

M?hring, K., & Weiland, A. P. (2022). Couples’ Life Courses and Women’s Income in Later Life: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis of Linked Lives in Germany. European Sociological Review, 38(3), 371–388. doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcab048

Teney, C., Pietrantuono, G., & M?hring, K. (2022). Who supports whom? Citizens’ support for affirmative action policies in recruitment processes towards four underrepresented groups. Journal of European Public Policy, 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2022.2131885

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Professor M?hring's website at the Chair of Sociology, especially Family and Work