Research Interests

• Life Course Research
• Social Network Research
• Social Inequality

Methods Expertise

• Case Selection
• Generalization in qualitative Research
• Expert Interviews
• Grounded Theory
• Mixed Methods Designs
• Qualitative comparative Analysis
• Qualitative Content Analysis
• Qualitative Interviewing: from guided Interviews to narrative Interviews
• Reconstructive Methods of Data Analysis (documentary Method of Interpretation / Bohnsack, Narration Analysis / Schütze, objective Hermeneutics / Oevermann)
• Social Network Research (Theoretical Concepts, quantitative and qualitative approaches)