Stefani Scherer

Dr. phil, University of Mannheim (Supervisors: W. Mueller, J. Bruederl)
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

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

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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: 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)
since 2008: Member of the Board of the PhD Program in Sociology and Social Research, Trento University
since 2013: in change of the double degree programs of the Department of Sociology and Social Research, Trento University, with German Universities.

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TEACHING (current)
Family Sociology, BA level, sinc WT2013/14, Trento UniversityQuantitative Methods, MA level, since ST2008/9, Trento University + laboratories and introduction to "Stata"
Quantitative Methods BA level, WT20013/14, WT2014/15 Trento University 
Statistics I, since WT2007/08,  PhD programm of Sociology and Social Research, Trento University
Longitudinal Data Anlysis, since ST2008/9, PhD programme of  Sociology and Social Research, Trento University

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.

Social Inequality
Comparative Life Course Analysis
Sociology of the Family
Demographic Change
Labour Market 

Quantitative Methods

Visiting Professor 
2019 (July) Visiting Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, WBZ.
2011 (July) at NEPS – National Educational Panel Study. University of Bamberg

PRIN 2017: Rising inequality and the social insecurity of the middle class: measures, drivers, policies (PI: Ranci Polimi)
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 2010. Funded under the 7th FP www.unitn.it/famine

2011- 2014: Cooperation member of the EduLife project, ERC Advanced Grant to H.-P. Blossfeld, EUI Fiesole.
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, coordinated by Paolo Barbieri within the EQUALSOC network (http://www.equalsoc.org/22)
2006-1010: Reconciling Work, Family Life and Gender Equality: Comparing Evidence from European Countries, coordinated by Helen Russel, Francis McGinnity 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 directed by Walter Müller (MZES) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
1999-2001: ECSR Summer School: ISTAR, Integrating Sociological Theory and Research, directed by Walter Müller (MZES)

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 and on quantitative methods on the BA, MA and PhD level.
http://r.unitn.it/en/soc/csis