Simon Christoph

// DISSERTATION PROJECT

The Influence of Close Friends on Individual Educational Achievement in the Later Course of Education

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND   

2012 - 2015
Master in Sociology (M.A.) at University of Bamberg, Germany

2008 - 2012
Bachelor in Sociology (B.A.) at University of Bamberg, Germany

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// PUBLICATIONS
 

Christoph, Simon (2016): Is Tertiary Education Putting the Future Labour Markets at Risk?. The article was first published in the printed programme of the Annual BAGSS Conference 2016, page 41-45.

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// CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
 

2019
Teaching Assistant for the Data Analysis Course "Introduction to Applied Social Network Analysis" at the ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques at the University of Bamberg.

2018
Presentation on "The influence of the Ethnic Composition of Friendships on Individual Educational Achievment in Higher Education" at the 2018 ECSR Conference (European Consortium for Sociological Reseach) at the Sciences Po, Paris, France.

Participation at the 12. Trierer Summer School on Social Network Analysis, University of Trier.

2^nd CILS4EU Conference. Presentation on "Towards a better Understanding of the Peer Group Context: Close Friends & Individual Educational Achievement". Utrecht University/Netherlands.

2017
Third European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN2017). Presentation on "Towards a better Understanding of the Peer Group Context: Close Friends & Individual Educational Achievement". Johannes Gutenberg University/Mainz.

Third European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN2017). Session Chair "Knowledge and Science Networks II". Johannes Gutenberg University/Mainz.

ECSR Conference (European Consortium for Sociological Research). Presentation on: "The Influence of Close Friends on the Individual Educational Achievement". Bocconi University Milan/Italy.

2016
Main organizer of the Third Annual BAGSS Conference (together with Agata Kraj, Diana Klose & Marc Saur) "When the State Intervenes" at the University of Bamberg.

III. Internal BAGSS Conference, University of Bamberg. Presentation on: "The Impact of Peer Groups on Immigrant and Native Students’ Educational Achievement and Aspirations". Bamberg/Germany. 

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// EXPERIENCE

Since May 2019:
Leader of the Data&Analytics project division of the IDM (Institut für Digitales Management).

Since 06/2016:
Research Associate at the Chair of Sociology, especially Methods of Empirical Social Research (Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel), University of Bamberg

10/2015 – 04/2016:
Graduate assistant at the Junior Professorship for Sociology with focus on educational inequalities (Prof. Dr. Ilona Relikowski), University of Bamberg

02/2015 – 03/2015:
Student assistant at the Chair for Sociology, especially Analysis of Social Structures (Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen), University of Bamberg, participation in the project „Pathways to Power: The Political Representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin in Seven European Democracies”

04/2013 – 09/2015:
Student assistant at the Junior Professorship for Sociology with focus on educational inequalities (Prof. Dr. Ilona Relikowski), University of Bamberg

06/2012 – 04/2013:
Student assistant at the Chair of Sociology 1 (Prof. Dr. Sandra Buchholz), University of Bamberg, participation in the research project BiKS (Bildungsprozesse, Kompetenzentwicklung und Selektionsentscheidungen im Vorschul- und Schulalter)

06/2011 – 01/2012:
Student assistant at the EFMS (European Forum for Migration Studies), scientific institute at the University of Bamberg, participation in several research projects on discrimination

04/2011:
Internship at the Federal Agency of Migration and Refugees, Scientific advisory board, Nuremberg

04/2010 – 09/2010:
Student assistant at the Chair of Sociology I, University of Bamberg, participation in the research project BiKS (Bildungsprozesse, Kompetenzentwicklung und Selektionsentscheidungen im Vorschul- und Schulalter)


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