Antonia Schier

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Office: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Wilhelmsplatz 3, Room: AS6/01.01A, 96047 Bamberg
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E-Mail: antonia.schier(at)lifbi.de
Phone: +49(0)951/863-3591
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Pillar 2: Educational and Social Inequality Across the Entire Life Course

Field: Sociology

Research Interests: Empirical Educational Research, Social Inequal
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// DISSERTATION PROJECT

Atypical Educational Careers and Non-traditional Educational Paths in Germany and Their Impact on Social Inequalities. An Analysis of Recent NEPS Data.

The dissertation project deals with atypical educational pathways and their impact on educational inequality and social mobility. Besides the traditional secondary school tracks (lower, intermediate, and upper secondary schooling) the German education system offers a variety of additional institutional options to attain secondary school qualifications and to gain access to academic education. These atypical educational pathways are often used to upgrade the original educational outcome after a first school career. Non-traditional pathways were introduced during the educational reforms 1969/1970 to open up the highly stratified German school system and to reduce educational inequality. Now 45 years after the reforms, little is known about the relevance of such atypical pathways or about the social inequalities they harbour.

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

2013
Diploma (Dipl.-Soz.) in Sociology, University of Bamberg

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// PUBLICATIONS

Schier, A., Bender, M., Koberg, T., Bogensperger, B., Gruner, S., Schiller, D., von Maurice, J., & Engelhardt-Wölfler, H. (2019). Data Protection Issues in the National Educational Panel Study. In H.-P. Blossfeld & H.-G. Roßbach (Eds.), Education as a Lifelong Process. The German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) (2^nd ed.). Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS.

Buchholz, S., Skopek, J., Zielonka, M., Ditton, H., Wolkinger, F. & Schier, A. (2016). „Secondary school differentiation and inequality of educational opportunity in Germany”. In: Blossfeld, H.-P., Buchholz, S., Skopek, J., and Triventi, M. (eds.), Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality – An International Comparison. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 305–322.

Buchholz, S. & Schier, A. (2015): New Game, new Chance? Social Inequalities and Upgrading Secondary School Qualifications in West Germany. European Sociological Review.

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// CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Schier, A., Bains, F., & von Maurice, J. (März, 2019). (Neue) Anforderungen der DSGVO – Ein Praxisbericht aus den Panelsurveys NEPS, ReGES, INSIDE am LIfBi. Vortrag im Rahmen des „13. Workshop der Panelstudien im deutschsprachigen Raum”, DZHW Hannover, Deutschland.

Buchholz, S. and Schier, A. (2015, September). New game, new chance? Social inequalities and upgrading secondary school qualifications in West Germany. Paper presentation at the ECSR Conference (European Consortium for Sociological Research), Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estland.

Blossfeld, H.-P., Ditton, H. , Buchholz, S., Schier, A., Skopek, J., Wohlkinger, F. and Zielonka, M. (2014, November). Tracking and inequalities of educational opportunities in Germany. Paper presentation at the eduLIFE Workshop, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Koberg, T., Müller-Kuller, A., Reichert, F. and Schier, A. (2014, September). Datenschutz im Nationalen Bildungspanel (NEPS). Presentation at the conference „Forschungsethik in der qualitativen und quantitativen Sozialforschung“, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.

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// EXPERIENCE

Professional experience

02/2014 - Today
Coordination of Executive Unit Data Protection in Surveys and Research Assistant, Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg

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