Dr. Alessandra Rusconi

since 10 2007
Senior Researcher in the Research Unit “Skill Formation and Labor Markets”

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

• Rusconi, Alessandra/Solga, Heike (2012): "Karriere und Familie in der Wissenschaft". In: Soziale Welt - Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis, S. 253-270.
• Rusconi, Alessandra/Solga, Heike (Hg.) (2011): Gemeinsam Karriere machen. Die Verflechtung von Berufskarrieren und Familie in Akademikerpartnerschaften. Opladen u.a.: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 189 S.
• Cornelißen, Waltraud/Rusconi, Alessandra/Becker, Ruth (Hg.) (2011): Berufliche Karrieren von Frauen. Hürdenläufe in Partnerschaft und Arbeitswelt. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 163 S.
• Rusconi, Alessandra/Solga, Heike (2010): "Doppelkarrieren - eine wichtige Bedingung für die Verbesserung der Karrierechancen von Frauen". In: Elke Gramespacher/Julika Funk/Iris Rothäusler (Hg.): Dual Career Couples an Hochschulen. Zwischen Wissenschaft, Praxis und Politik. Opladen/Farmington Hills, MI: Verlag Barbara Budrich, S. 37-55.
• Jakobi, Anja P./Rusconi, Alessandra (2009): "Lifelong Learning in the Bologna Process. European Developments in Higher Education". In: Compare, Vol. 39, No. 1, S. 51-65.
• Rusconi, Alessandra/Solga, Heike (2008): A Systematic Reflection upon Dual Career Couples. WZB Discussion Paper. Berlin: WZB.
• Rusconi, Alessandra/Solga, Heike (2007): "Determinants of and Obstacles to Dual Careers in Germany". In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung/Journal of Family Research, Vol. 19, No. 3, S. 311-336.
• Martens, Kerstin/Rusconi, Alessandra/Leuze, Kathrin (Eds.) (2007): New Arenas of Education Governance. The Impact of International Organizations and Markets on Educational Policy Making. Transformation of the State. Basingstoke/New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, XV, 248 S.