Prof. Dr. Sandra Buchholz studied Sociology at Bielefeld University. She successfully completed her Ph.D. in 2008 and her postdoc qualification (Habilitation) in 2016, both at Bamberg University. From 2012 to 2017, she held a temporary appointment as Professor of Sociology in Bamberg. From 2017 to 2018, Sandra Buchholz has been interim Director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories and Professor for Longitudinal Educational Research in Bamberg. In 2018, she joined DZHW as Head of the Research Area “Educational Careers and Graduate Employment”. Additionally, Sandra Buchholz holds the W3-Professorship "Quantitative Life Course Sociology" at Hanover University.
Prof. Dr. Sandra Buchholz
Research Area Educational Careers and Graduate Employment
Head of Department
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Academic research fields
Educational research; life course research; social inequalities; social mobility and stratification; international comparative social structure analysis; labour market research; young people and their entry into the labour market; old age, entering retirement and retirement; wealth inequalities; gender-specific employment histories and family processes; comparison of welfare states, labour market regimes and educational systems; quantitative research methods (esp. longitudinal analysis methods)
Projects
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Publications
List of publications
Presentations
Curriculum Vitae
Professional career
Jan. 2023
Seat on the Board of Trustees of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB)
Since June 2021
Co-Editor of the Journal for Labour Market Research
Oct. 2020
Appointed as Member of the LCSS Leibniz Center for Science and Society
Feb. 2020
Appointed as Member of the scientific advisory board of the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training [Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)]
Sept. 2019
Appointment as LIfBi Research Affiliate, Leibniz-Institute for Educational Trajectories
Since August 2018
Member of the Educational Report author group
April 2018
Appointment as Research Fellow, Leibniz Center for Science and Society
Since April 2018
Head of the Research Area 'Educational Careers and Graduate Employment' at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) and W3 Professor for Quantitative Life Course Sociology at Leibniz University Hanover
April 2017 - March 2018
Interim Director of the Leibniz-Institute for Educational Careers (LlfBi) and W3 Professorship for Longitudinal Educational Research at Bamberg University
Since Sept. 2012
Member of the National Educational Panel Study
Sept. 2012 - March 2017
Professor of Sociology, University of Bamberg
March 2007 - Aug. 2012
Senior Researcher, University of Bamberg
April 2003 - Feb. 2007
Junior Researcher in various international comparative research projects, University of Bamberg
Education and academic degrees
Jan. 2017
Venia Legendi in Sociology, University of Bamberg
Nov. 2016
Habilitation in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, University of Bamberg
April 2003 - April 2008
PhD in Sociology (Dr. rer. pol.), Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, University of Bamberg
Summa cum laude
Oct. 1998 - March 2003
Diploma Studies in Sociology (with minors in Social Psychology), University of Bielefeld
