Research
My research examines social relations, participation and knowledge in increasingly diverse societies. Across different empirical fields, I am interested in how social differences, forms of belonging and capacities are produced and negotiated in everyday and institutional practice.
Migration and postmigrant everyday life
I examine how migration and social difference become relevant in family life, socialisation and institutional encounters.
Based on long-term ethnographic and video-based research, my work focuses on postmigrant family relations and everyday negotiations of difference. I analyse how categories are made consequential in interaction and how family practices establish and transform relations, responsibilities and belonging.
Care, dementia and participation
I examine participation, sociality and the attribution of capacities under conditions of dementia and institutional care.
Based on video ethnography, this work follows embodied coordination, social remembering and affective work in care settings. It traces the interactional and organisational arrangements through which participation is enabled, restricted or contested.
Media and knowledge production
I examine how media technologies shape practices of knowledge production.
Current work addresses generative AI and its implications for authorship, methodological control and epistemic responsibility. Earlier studies focused on video analysis, digital image communication and the transformations through which empirical materials become scientific evidence.
Methodological perspective
Across these empirical fields, I investigate qualitative methodology as an object of research in its own right.
Drawing on practice theory and the sociology of knowledge, this work follows the practical processes through which empirical materials are documented, anonymised, interpreted and circulated. A particular focus lies on ethnography, video analysis and multimodal interaction research, and on how these practices shape what can count as data and evidence.