Profile
I am a sociologist working on social diversity, participation and qualitative methodology.
Research profile
My research examines social relations and forms of participation in increasingly diverse societies. Empirically, I work on migration, dementia and care, and media and knowledge production. Across these fields, I study how difference, belonging and capacities are produced and negotiated in everyday and institutional settings.
Approach and methodology
My work draws on practice theory and the sociology of knowledge. I approach social order as a practical accomplishment and examine how categories, relations and capacities take shape in interaction and institutional practice. Methodologically, I work primarily with ethnography, video-based interaction analysis and interpretive sequence analysis. I also study qualitative research itself, particularly how empirical materials become data and how methodological practices shape evidence.
Current position
I am Interim Professor of Methods in Empirical Educational and Social Research at the University of Siegen. Previously, I held a research and teaching position in General Sociology and Cultural Sociology at the University of Konstanz.