Prof. Dr. Kathrin Leuze

Since 04/2009
Associate Professor of Education Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin

Since 09/2008
Director of the Project Group “National Educational Panel Study: Vocational Training and Lifelong Learning” (funding period: 01/2009-12/2013) at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

10/2007 – 08/2008
Research associate with Prof. Jutta Allmendinger, PhD, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Project: “Living together with Separate Budgets: The Limits of Individualization in Couple Relationships”

05/2005 – 09/2007
Research associate with Prof. Dr. Ansgar Weymann, Sfb 597, “Transformation of the State”, C4 Project Internationalization of Educational Policy, University of Bremen

2007
Dr. rer. pol., Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), Universität Bremen

2005
Marie Curie Fellowship, University of Stirling, United Kingdom

2003 – 2006
PhD Fellow at the Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS), University of Bremen

2002
Diplom in Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich

• Leuze, Kathrin (2010): Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road? How Institutions Shape the Transition from Higher Education to Work. Opladen/Farmington Hills, MI: Budrich UniPress, 276 S.
• Leuze, Kathrin (2011): "Higher Education and Graduate Employment. The Importance of Occupational Specificity in Germany and Britain". In: Jochen Clasen (Ed.): Converging Worlds of Welfare?. British and German Social Policy in the 21st Century. Oxford/New York, NY: Oxford University Press, S. 245-265
• Leuze, Kathrin (2010): "From Higher Education to Work. Public and Professional Sector Employment in Germany and Britain". In: Research in Comparative and International Education, Vol. 5, No. 4, S. 344-365.
• Leuze, Kathrin (2010): "Interne Arbeitsmärkte und die Karrieremobilität von Akademikerinnen und Akademikern in Deutschland und Großbritannien". In: Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, Jg. 32, H. 4, S. 24-47.
• Leuze, Kathrin/Strauß, Susanne (2009): "Lohnungleichheiten zwischen Akademikerinnen und Akademikern. Der Einfluss von fachlicher Spezialisierung, frauendominierten Fächern und beruflicher Segregation". In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 38, H. 4, S. 262-281.