Research
My research focuses on migration, media and care in increasingly diverse societies. Across these fields, I examine how social relations, participation and knowledge are produced and negotiated in practice.
Migration and postmigrant everyday life
I study how migration becomes relevant in everyday family life, socialisation and institutional encounters.
My research focuses on postmigrant family relations, belonging and processes of socialisation. Based on long-term ethnographic and video-based research, I examine how differences are categorised, negotiated and made consequential in everyday interaction. A particular interest lies in family practices through which relations, responsibilities and forms of belonging are continuously established and transformed.
Media, knowledge and AI
I study how media technologies reshape practices of knowledge production.
This research addresses media as constitutive elements of scientific and everyday knowledge practices. Current work focuses on generative AI and its consequences for authorship, methodological control and epistemic responsibility. Earlier studies investigated video analysis, digital image communication and the transformations through which research materials become scientific evidence.
Care, dementia and participation
I study interaction and participation under conditions of dementia and institutional care.
My research examines how participation, agency and social relations are practically accomplished in care settings. In video-based studies, I focus on embodied coordination, social remembering, affective work and the attribution of capacities. I am particularly interested in the interactional and organisational conditions that enable, restrict or shape participation under conditions of dementia.
Methodological perspective
Across these empirical fields, I also study qualitative methodology itself.
Drawing on practice theory and the sociology of knowledge, I study how qualitative research produces its own objects and evidence. My work examines practices of documenting, anonymising, interpreting and circulating empirical materials, with particular attention to ethnography, video analysis and multimodal interaction research.