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Education, Work, and Life Chances

Research Unit: Skill Formation and Labor Markets





Dr. Alessandra Rusconi




[Photo: Udo Borchert]
 
Telephone: +49 30 25491-174
Fax:              +49 30 25491-180
Email:             rusconi@wzb.eu


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Senior Researcher in the Research Unit “Skill Formation and Labor Markets”
 
 

Curriculum Vitae


since Oct. 2007
Senior Researcher in the Research Unit “Skill Formation and Labor Markets” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Research project: The entwined life courses of academic couples


2004 – 2007
Senior researcher at the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS) and at the Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformation of the State”, University of Bremen/Germany
Research project: International education politics


2003 – 2004
Senior researcher at the Independent Research Group “Lack of Training: Employment and Life Chances of the Less Educated”, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin/Germany
Research project: Dual Career Couples


2003
Ph.D. in Sociology, Free University Berlin/Germany


2001 – 2003
Junior Researcher in the Research Unit “Academic Policy”, Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and the German Academy of Scientists Leopoldina, Berlin/ Germany
Research project: Dual Careers


1998 – 2001
Junior Researcher at the Center for Sociology and the Study of the Life Course, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin/Germany
Research project: Leaving home in Germany and Italy


1997
Laurea (M.A. equivalent) in Political Science, University of Florence/Italy

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Research Fields
 		  

 
  • Social Change and Life Courses
     
  • Dual Careers
     
  • Social Inequalities and Gender
     
  • Comparative Social Research
     
  • International Education Politics


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Publications (selected)		  

  2010   Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga. Doppelkarrieren – Eine wichtige Bedingung für die Verbesserung der Karrierechancen von Frauen. In: Gramespacher, Elke, Julika Funk und Iris Rothhäusler (Eds.): Dual Career Couples an Hochschulen. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich, p. 37-55  

  2009  

Jakobi, Anja P. and Alessandra Rusconi: Lifelong Learning in the Bologna Process: European Developments in Higher Education. Compare, 39 (1), pp. 51-65.

Kathrin Leuze, Alessandra Rusconi, Should I Stay or Should I Go? Gender Differences in Professional Employment, WZB Discussion Paper SP I 2009-501, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin.

  

  2008   Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga: A Systematic Reflection upon Dual Career Couples. WZB Discussion Paper SP I 2008-505, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin.

Solga, Heike and Alessandra Rusconi: Das schwierige Unterfangen von Doppelkarrieren in Akademikerpartnerschaften – Ergebnisse des Mikrozensus 2004. In: Rolf/Zwick/Wagner (Eds.): Fortschritte der informationellen Infrastruktur in Deutschland – Festschrift für Johann Hahlen zum 65. Geburtstag und Hans-Jürgen Krupp zum 75. Geburtstag, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft: Baden-Baden, pp. 324-337.

 

  2007   Rusconi, Alessandra and Heike Solga: Determinants of and Obstacles to Dual Careers in Germany. Zeitschrift für Familienforschung (ZfF), 19 (3), pp. 311-336.

Martens Kerstin, Alessandra Rusconi and Kathrin Leuze (Eds.): New Arenas of Educational Governance – The Impact of International Organizations and Markets on Educational Policymaking. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Balzer, Carolin and Alessandra Rusconi: From the Commission to the Member States and Back? A Comparison of the Bologna and Bruges-Copenhagen Processes. In: Martens/Rusconi/Leuze (Eds.): New Arenas of Educational Governance – The Impact of International Organizations and Markets on Educational Policymaking. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 57-75.

 

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Conference Papers and Lectures (selected)		  

  2010   The timing of career steps in German Academia – The role of gender, relationships & disciplines. Paper presented at the 17th ISA World Congress of Sociology.  RC 52: Sociology of Professional Groups, Session 09: Gender & the Professions. Gothenburg/Sweden, 11-17th July.

Gemeinsam Karriere machen: Wissenschaftskarrieren von Frauen, nur im Doppelpack? Lecture at IAB-Colloquium. Nürnberg, 24th June.

Zwei Karrieren eine Familie: Doppelkarrieren in der Wissenschaft. Lecture at the theme night „Doppelkarrierepaare in der Wissenschaft“. Ruhr-University of Bochum, 28th April.

Karrieren von Akademikerinnen. Lecture at the conference "Wissenschaft & Geschlecht – Karrieren und Barrieren auf dem Weg an die Spitze". Hamburg University, 18-19th February. 		 

  2009   Partnerschaften und Karrieren von Frauen an deutschen Hochschulen. Lecture at the  conference: Dual Career Couples – Neue Herausforderungen für Hochschulen. Abteilung Gleichstellung und Gleichstellungskommission. University of Zürich/Switzerland, 13th November.  

  2008   Doppelkarrieren in der Wissenschaft – Eine systematische Betrachtung. Guest lecture at the Best-Practice-Workshop „Duale Karrieren in Theorie und Praxis“ and at the series of lectures „Wissenschaft, Chancengleichheit, Frauenförderung“. Konstanz University. Constance/Germany, 27–28th November.

A Systematic Reflection upon Dual Career Couples. Paper presented at the first ISA Forum of Sociology: “Sociological Research and Public Debate”. RC 02: Economy and Society, Session 03: Varieties of Capitalist Gender Regimes. Barcelona/Spain, 5 – 8th September 2008.		  

  2007   Institutional and individual constraints of an “un-gendered” order of professions. Paper presented at the ISA-RC32 "Women in Society" & EKKE, Interim International Conference: Women and Citizenship in a Local/Global World. Athens/ Greece, 31th May -1st June 2007  

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