Prof. Dr. Steffen Schindler

Professor of Sociology with Focus on Education and Work in the Life Course
Contact information
Feldkirchenstraße 21
96045 Bamberg
e-mail: steffen.schindler(at)uni-bamberg.de
phone: (+49) 0951-863-2415
room: F21/01.01
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steffen_Schindler2
Office hours during the semester:
Thursdays, 2-3 pm (appointments via e-mail).
Currently, consultation hours are held online via video chat.
Office hours during the term break:
Please make an appointment via e-mail.
Vita
Since October 2016 Steffen Schindler is Professor of Sociology with Focus on Education and Work in the Life Course at the University of Bamberg. From October 2013 to September 2016 he was holding this position as a Junior Professor.
After studying social sciences at the Universities of Stuttgart and Mannheim he worked as researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research from 2006 to 2012.
In 2012 he obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Mannheim. After that he held a post-doc scholarship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, which he spent at the University of Trento. In October 2012 he took up a post-doc position at the University of Hannover.
His research interests cover the sociology of education and the labour market. He is particularly interested in processes and mechanisms of social inequality in educational attainment, the transition from education to the labour market and labour market returns of education.
Presentations
2018
"Relative Risk Aversion from a Dynamic Perspective. Explaining Intergenerational Educational Mobility" (with Klaus Pforr)
9. Gesis Nutzerkonferenz Forschen mit dem Mirkozensus - Analysen zur Sozialstruktur und zum sozialen Wandel, Mannheim, 27.11.2018-28.11.2018
"Alternative Routes to Higher Education Eligibility in Germany - Diversion, Inclusion, Equalisation?" (with Felix Bittmann)
ECSR Meeting Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Europe, Paris, 29.10.2018-31.10.2018
"Education and Inequality across the Life-Course"
Lecture at Leibniz Institute for educational trajectories (LifBi), Bamberg, 05.06.2018
"Educaional upgrading, career advancement and social inequality development from a life-course perspective in Germany" (mit Simone Virdia)
International Sociological Association, Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility Spring Meeting, Seoul, 25.05.2018-27.05.2018
„Soziale Ungleichheit im Bildungsverlauf" (interdisciplinary course of lectures)
Lecture at Zentrum für Lehrerbildung (ZLB) Bayreuth, Bayreuth, 09.01.2018
2017
„Soziale Ungleichheit in den Arbeitsmarkterträgen: Die Rolle von Bildungsverläufen“ (with Simone Virdia) Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)-Colloquium zur Arbeits- und Berufsforschung 2017, 04.10.2017
“Educational upgrading, career advancement, and social inequality development in a life-course perspective in Germany” (with Simone Virdia)
The European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) conference, Mailand, 31.08.2017 – 02.09.2017
„Soziale Ungleichheit beim Übergang ins Studium“
Eröffnungsfeier des DZHW Forschungsdatenzentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (FDZ), Hannover, 17.07.2017
„Soziale Ungleichheit im Bildungsverlauf“ (Theme Statement)
3. Dortmunder Symposium der Empirischen Bildungsforschung „Bedingungen erfolgreicher Bildungsverläufe in gesellschaftlicher Heterogenität“, Dortmund, 22.06.2017
2016
„Earnings Inequality Among Upper Secondary Degree Holders of Differing Social Background: Processes and Mechanisms” (with Markus Lörz)
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS), Annual International Conference "Education and the Life Course: Determinants and Consequences of Unequal Educational Opportunities", Bamberg, 06.10.2016 – 08.10.2016
„Primary effects in higher education: Accounting for social origin effects on academic achievement” (with Friederike Schlücker)
24th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TiY), Trento, 07.09.2016 – 10.09.2016
„Hochschulrankings und deren Auswirkung auf die Ungleichheit bei der Wahl des Hochschulortes“ (with Maria Gerth and Felix Weiss)
38. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Bamberg, 26.09.2016 - 30.09.2016
„Relative Risk Aversion from a Dynamic Perspective: Explaining Educational Mobility”
European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) Conference, Oxford, 22.09.2016 -24.09.2016
„Returns to Higher Education, Social Inequality and the Role of Vertical and Horizontal Educational Decisions: Which Mechanisms lead to Wage Differentials?” (with Markus Lörz)
International Sociology Association Research Committee 28 Summer Meeting, Bern, 29.08.2016 –31.08.2016
„Soziale Ungleichheit beim Hochschulzugang: Ausmaß, Ursachen und Ansatzpunkte“
Botschaftertagung der deutschen Studienstiftung, Naumburg, 10.06.2016 -12.06.2016
„Social Inequality in Post-Secondary Educational Careers and Labor Market Returns in Germany: A Decomposition of Earnings Differential” (with Markus Lörz)
International Sociology Association Singapore Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) Conference 2016, Singapur, 26.05.2016 – 28.05.2016
„Führen institutionelle Öffnung und Durchlässigkeit zu einer Verringerung der sozialen Ungleichheit im Bildungsverlauf" (Discussion)
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Berlin, 09.03.2016 - 11.03.2016
„Herkunftsspezifische Unterschiede in den Bildungserträgen und die Rolle von vertikalen und horizontalen Bildungsentscheidungen" (with Markus Lörz)
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Berlin, 09.03.2016 - 11.03.2016
2015
„Educational Inequality in the Life-Course and the Role of Institutional Diversification in Germany”
Workshop of the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF) “Globalization, Mobility, Immigration and Inequality in a Comparative Perspective”, on the Occasion of 50 Years to the Diplomatic Relations, Berlin, 01.12.2015 - 02.12.2015
„Returns to Higher Education, Social Inequality and the Role of Educational Decisions” (with Markus Lörz)
Annual Conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), Tallinn, 10.09.2015 - 12.09.2015
„Social Inequality in Higher Education from a Life-Course Perspective: Transitions, Social Selectivity and Mechanisms” (with Markus Lörz)
Konferenz „(Persistent) Inequalities Reconsidered: Education and Social Mobility”, Ascona, 26.07.2015 - 31.07.2015
„Relative Risk Aversion in a Dynamic Perspective. Explaining Educational Mobility”
Spring Meeting of the ISA Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobillity (RC28), Tilburg, 28.05.2015 - 30.05.2015
„Hochschulrankings als Kriterium für neue soziale Selektivität in der Studienentscheidung” (with Felix Weiß and Maria Gerth)
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Bochum, 11.03.2015 - 13.03.2015
2014
„Social Inequality in Higher Education from a Life Course Perspective: Transitions, Social Selectivity and Mechanisms on the Way to a Full Professorship” (with Markus Lörz)
Annual Conference of the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), Berlin, 23.09.2014 - 25.09.2014
„Returns to Intra-European Emigration in Times of the Financial Crisis”
Annual Meeting of the Transitions in Youth Network (TIY), Barcelona, 03.09.2014 - 06.09.2014
„The Impact of Between-school Tracking on Inequality in Educational Attainment. A Closer Look at the German School System”
Spring Meeting of the ISA Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobillity (RC28), Budapest, 08.05.2014 - 10.05.2014
„Differenzierungsprozesse im Sekundarschulbereich”
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Frankfurt, 03.03.2014 - 05.03.2014
„Between-school Tracking in Germany and its Impact on Inequality in Educational Attainment”
Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) Konferenz „Educational Systems: Inequalities, Labour,Markets and Civic Engagement”, Amsterdam, 13.02.2014 - 14.02.2014
2013
„Diversifizierung in der Sekundarbildung und soziale Ungleichheit”
Forschungskolloquium des Instituts für Erziehungswissenschaft, Bern, 07.11.2013