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The European Football Championship is over, the Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro have begun. While public attention focuses on pompous opening ceremonies and arduous anti-doping campaigns, the use of statistical data in contemporary professional sports has been much less in the spotlight. Yet statistics can transform the sporting world as WZB Visiting Researcher Matthias Kranke and his colleague David Yarrow (both University of Warwick) argue.

 “Working Revolutions: Revolutionising Work” is the title of 34. International Labour Process Conference, hosted by the WZB from 4th to 6th April. 300 participants from 33 countries were presenting over 220 papers in 80 sessions about the worlds of work and labour. The annual conference is a major meeting point for the international research community interested in the developments and transformations of the worlds of work.

Professorin Céline Teney ist mit einem der zehn Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preise 2016 ausgezeichnet worden. Nach Stationen am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung und an der Universität Harvard leitet die Integrationsforscherin und politische Soziologin eine Nachwuchsgruppe an der Universität Bremen. Die Jury des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und dem Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung vergebenen Preises hob die thematische Bandbreite und die methodische Exzellenz von Teney hervor.