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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Prof. Dr. Daniela Grunow
Sociology of Social Change
Faculty of Social Sciences
Goethe-University
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, Room: 3G.116, PEG
60629 Frankfurt am Main
E-Mail: grunow[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de
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Daniela Grunow is
the director and principal investigator of the APPARENT project. Since
January 2013 she is a Full Professor of Sociology at the
Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Daniela received her Ph.D.
(summa cum laude) from the Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg (Germany)
in 2006. From 2006-2008 Daniela was a Postdoctoral Associate at the
Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale
University (CT, USA). Before joining the Goethe-University Daniela had
been a faculty member at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
at the University of Amsterdam (NL), 2008-2012.
As the director and principal investigator of the APPARENT project she
coordinates the cross-national cooperation with researchers in seven
European countries, collects original data on parental roles, norms and
identities, and engages in comparative research within the APPARENT
subprojects.
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STAFF
Katia Begall, Postdoctoral Researcher
Sociology of Social Change
Faculty of Social Sciences
Goethe-University
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, Room: PEG 3G.090
60629 Frankfurt am Main
E-Mail: begall[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de
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Katia
Begall is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (Germany) . She
holds a Ph.D. in Sociology which she obtained from the University of
Groningen in 2012. In her dissertation research, Katia studied the
effect of working conditions and occupations on fertility.
Katia’s research interests include fertility and family
formation, the division of paid and unpaid labor within households,
cross-national comparative research and quantitative methods.
As a postdoctoral researcher in the APPARENT project, Katia will focus
on the career consequences of gendered patterns of employment
interruption and part-time work and associations between national
context and gender roles in comparative perspective.
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Alexandra Ils, Junior Researcher
Sociology of Social Change
Faculty of Social Sciences
Goethe-University
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, Room: PEG 3G.102
60323 Frankfurt am Main
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Alexandra Ils studied Political Science and
Sociology at the RWTH Aachen University and at the Lomonosov Moscow
State University. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in September
2012 and started her Master’s programme in Sociology at the Goethe
University in Frankfurt in the same year. Her Master’s thesis was a
study in norms and values of medical experts who advice parents (to be)
in the pre- and postnatal phase.
As a member of the APPARENT team she
will collect data to scrutinize norms and values of parenthood in influencial media outlets in Germany.
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Gerlieke Veltkamp, Junior Researcher
Sociology of Social Change
Faculty of Social Sciences
Goethe-University
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, Room: PEG 3G.089
60629 Frankfurt am Main
E-Mail: veltkamp[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de
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Gerlieke Veltkamp is a PhD candidate at the Goethe-University. She
studied Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam and completed her
Research Master with specializations in Health, Care and the Body and
Institutions and Inequality. Her thesis focused on Dutch professionals in
postnatal care, constructing knowledge of parents in a context of risk. Gerlieke
works as an editor for the ‘Sociologie Magazine’ and is furthermore employed in
the forensic youth psychiatry sector in Amsterdam, where she is involved in
effect research and policy writing. Previously, she was educated as a family
therapist and she worked with youth and families with psychosocial problems in a
forensic setting.
As a junior
researcher in the APPARENT project, she will coordinate a cross-national
comparison on expert-parent interactions in (pre)natal and postnatal
care.
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Dr. Sandra Buchler, Postdoctoral Researcher
Sociology of Social Change
Faculty of Social Sciences
Goethe-University
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, Room: PEG 3G.090
60629 Frankfurt am Main
E-Mail: buchler[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de
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Sandra Buchler has been
employed as a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the
Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main since January 2014. She majored in Sociology and German at the University of
Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), before completing a first class
Honours Degree and PhD at the same university. Her doctoral
dissertation, which was undertaken within the frame of a joint ARC
(Australian Research Council) and FaHCSIA (Federal Government
Department of Families, Housing, Communiy Services and Indigenous
Affairs) funded research project, conducted a systematic analysis of
cohabitation in Australia. Titled "Cohabitation in Australia:
Characteristics, Transitions and Outcomes", her doctoral dissertation
explored the characteristics of cohabiters, which factors influence
transitions out of cohabitation and how cohabitation influences
happiness. Sandra received the Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree
Excellence for her doctoral dissertation.
Sandra was employed at the
University of Bamberg from mid 2011 to late 2013, where she was
involved in the eduLIFE
Project. Her current research focuses include how first births
influence attitudes towards gender roles, the influence of gender on
transitions into labour market and the association between marital
status and happiness. Her primary interests include families and household, cohabitation,
gender, longitudinal research, life course research and quantitative
methods.
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Dr. Christian Haag, Assistant Researcher
E-Mail: christian.haag@lifbi.de
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Christian Haag holds a diploma degree in
Sociology from the University of Bamberg and also studied at the
National University of Ireland in Galway. He has taught and researched
at the Chair of Sociology I at the University of Bamberg, at the State
Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg (ifb),
and at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His work is focussed on
empirical methods in social research, social inequality, life course
research, and family sociology. Specialties include employment of women
and mothers, reconciliation of family and employment, same-sex
relationships and homosexuality, attitudes towards the family and
normative images of the family, and parenting intentions, particularly
in the context of artificial reproductive techniques
In
his dissertation, Christian Haag contributes to the body of research in
family sociology in providing original results on parenting intentions
of homosexual women and men. Based on a quantitative German dataset from
the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg (ifb),
the thesis delineates parenting intentions, finds evidence for
influencing factors which are important in the development of these
intentions, and furthermore describes and discusses intended family
patterns of homosexual women and men. The implications are discussed at
an individual and a societal level. Results throughout point towards the
importance of the social and legal framework. Results and their
implications extend to common issues and topics for all couples in
treatment with assisted reproductive techniques.
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Maria Reimann, PhD Candidate
E-Mail: reimann[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de
Maria Reimann is a
PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam and worked as Junior Researcher at
the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (Germany). She studied ethnography
and cultural anthropology at the University of Warsaw and the
University of Copenhagen (ERASMUS scholarship). She defended her MA
thesis “The good stepfather. A father figure or a friend?”
at the University of Warsaw in February 2011. Maria’s main
research interests include kinship and family, parenthood, medical
anthropology, institutions and human agency, and qualitative methods.
As a junior researcher in the APPARENT project, she conducted
in-depth interviews with Polish couples at the life course transition
to parenthood. She then compared the data with the data from other
European countries of the project, focusing on the norms and practises
of parenting and the gender division of labour.
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Dr. Katarzyna Adamczyk, Postdoctoral Researcher
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Institute of Psychology
ul. Szamarzewskiego 89/AB
60-568 Poznań
E-Mail: Katarzyna.Adamczyk[at]amu.edu.pl
Katarzyna Adamczyk is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Human Development Psychology and Family Studies at the Institute of Psychology, Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznań, Poland. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on
psychological factors associated with singlehood in young adulthood. She has
published several papers in the field of singlehood, including the book 'Selected psychological circumstances of
singlehood in young adulthood' and articles, such as 'An Investigation of loneliness and perceived social support among single
and partnered young adults and Perceived
social support and mental health among single vs. partnered Polish young adults'
(with Prof. Chris Segrin). Currently, together with Prof. Chris Segrin from the
University of Arizona, she is serving the function of a Principal Investigator
in the research project “A longitudinal assessment of mental and physical
health among Polish and American young adults” (UMO-2014/13/B/HS6/01382) funded
by the Polish National Science Centre.
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FORMER STAFF

Kristina John, Junior Researcher
E-Mail: kristina.john[at]uni-mannheim.de
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Kristina John worked as a junior
researcher in the APPARENT Project from April 2011 to January 2014. She collected
data on the (political) discourse and norms about fatherhood and motherhood
from mainstream media from the 1980s to 2010 in the Netherlands and Germany.
She is now a junior researcher at the Research and Study Centre Dynamics of
Change at the University of Mannheim.
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