Stefani Scherer

Dr. phil, University of Mannheim, Germany
Diplom Soziologie, Sidestudies in Psychology.

Stefani Scherer, Dr. phil., Dipl. Soz. (University of Mannheim, Germany)  
URL: http://r.unitn.it/en/soc/csis
ORCID iD:  0000-0002-1848-1231

I am a proud mother of three

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2015 - : Full Professor of Sociology (14/C1 sps07)
2012 - 2015: Associate Professor of Sociology  Department of Sociology and Social Research, Trento University
2007 - 2012: Assistant Professor of Sociology (Ricercatrice, tenured) Faculty of Sociology, Trento University
2004 - 2007: Postdoctoral Fellow (Assegnista di Ricerca post-dottorato di Ateneo), Department of Sociology and Social Research, University Milano-Bicocca (www.unimib.it)
2002- 2004: Visiting Researcher at the University Milano-Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research
1997- 2003: Research Fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Mannheim University (www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de)

Visiting Professor 
2021 (Dec) Paul F. Lazarsfeld Visiting Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Vienna University. 
2019 (July) Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, WBZ. 
2011 (July) at NEPS – National Educational Panel Study. University of Bamberg.

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INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES
2020- : Programme director of the MA programme "Sociology and Social Research" 
2018-2020: ASN 14/C1 member of commission
2018, 2020, 2022: ERC panel member SH3 Advanced Grants 
2014-2020: Director of the PhD Program in Sociology and Social Research within the School of Social Science, Trento University (http://web.unitn.it/en/drss-srs/16300/sociology-and-social-research)
2020 – 2023 member of the Scientific Committee “Visitinps Scholars”, INPS, Rome
2021 – member of the scientific advisory board of the Bamberg Graduate School in Social Sciences, Germany 
2023 – member of the scientific board “Beirat” of the Mannheimer Zentrum fuer Europaeische Sozialforschun (MZES), Mannheim University.
2008 - : Member of the Board of the PhD Program in Sociology and Social Research, Trento University
2013-2024: in change of various Double Degree programmes of DSRS

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TEACHING (current only)
Family Sociology, BA level
Quantitative Methods + laboraties, MA level 
Research design, longitudinal analysis, PhD level 

Editorial Board Member
Genus- Journal of Population Science, associate editor

REVIEWER for
Advances in Life Course Research, America Journal of Sociology,  American Sociological Review, Acta Sociologica, British Journal of Sociology, Demography, European Societies, European Sociological Review, Journal of European Social Policy, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Gender, Work & Organization, Polis, Sociological Methods and Research, etc, etc.

My main interests are social inequalities and social stratification processes in international comparative perspective, the analysis of life courses, the family and labour market dynamics and quantitative methods. I have been working in several large-scale international comparative projects, for which I received, among others, a grant from the European Research Council (ERC- StG-2010). 

Topics: Social Inequalities, Comparative Life Course Analysis, Sociology of the Family, Demographic Change, Labour Market, Quantitative Methods

Within DSRS, this is my home: https://r.unitn.it/en/soc/csis

PRIN 2022: PI V.Peragine Equality of opportunity and social mobility: measures, drivers and impacts
PRIN PNRR 2022: PI A. Vitali. WelFerPoli

PRIN 2017: Rising inequality and the social insecurity of the middle class: measures, drivers, policies (PI: C. Ranci )
2018- Lavoro, Impresa, Welfare nel XXI Secolo ("Piano Strategico di Ateneo 2017-2021", University of Trento)
2010- 2014: FamIne: Families of Inequalities - Social and economic consequences of the changing work-family equilibria in European Societies. PI, ERC Starting Grant  www.unitn.it/famine

2011- 2014: Cooperation member of the EduLife project, ERC Advanced Grant to H.-P. Blossfeld, EUI.
2005-2010: Member of the Network of Excellence EQUALSOC, funded by the EU under the 6th FP.
2008-2010: Comparative School Discipline, coordinate by Richard Arum Social Science Research Council and New York University
2008-2010: FlexCareer II, coordinated by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Karin Kurz, Universities of Bamberg and Leipzig (http://www.flexcareer.de) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
2006-1010: Atypical Employment and Welfare Regimes, within the EQUALSOC network (http://www.equalsoc.org/22)
2006-1010: Reconciling Work, Family Life and Gender Equality: Comparing Evidence from European Countries, within the EQUALSOC network (http://www.equalsoc.org/23)
2006-2007: FlexCareer I, coordinated by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Karin Kurz, University of Bamberg (http://www.flexcareer.de) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
2001-2004 CHANGEQUAL: Economic Change, Unequal Life-Chances and Quality of Life (http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/projects/changequal), founded by the EU under the 5th framework programme.
2002: Social Consequences of Labour Market Flexibilisation. MZES, coordinated by Walter Müller and Stefani Scherer
1996-2001: Educational Expansion and Social Reproduction in Europe funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
1999-2001: ECSR Summer School: ISTAR, Integrating Sociological Theory and Research. 

Member of the AcademiaNet: Profiles of Leading Women Scientists (www.www.academia-net.de) since 2012
Member of the Akademie fuer Soziologie (https://akademie-soziologie.de/)

Editorial Board Member
Genus- Journal of Population Science, associate editor  https://genus.springeropen.com/

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BIO NOTE
Stefani Scherer is full professor of Sociology at Trento University (Itlay) and holds a Dr. phil from Mannheim University (Germany). Her research interests centre on social inequality and stratification processes in international comparative perspective, the analysis of life courses, family realated inequalities and  labour market dynamics.
She teaches courses on family sociology on research design and quantitative methods on the BA, MA and PhD level.
http://r.unitn.it/en/soc/csis