Dr. Stefanie Aunkofer

Since 2024 | Central Equal Opportunity Representative for gender equality at Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences

2022–2024 | Parental leave

2021 | Ph.D. thesis titled “Fathers on Parental Leave: (Non-)Recognition of Childcare and Paid Work Among Couples” in sociology (primary examiner: Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer; secondary examiner: Prof. Dr. Mona Motakef) at the Faculty of Cultural, Social, and Educational Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin

2019–2022 | Deputy Central Equal Opportunity Representative for gender equality  at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences

Since 2017 | Gender Equality Office at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences

2017 | Research Assistant at the Institute for Social Sciences, Department of Sociology of Work and Gender Relations (Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer) at Humboldt University of Berlin (representing Dr. Almut Peukert)

2014–2017 | Research Assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Gender Studies, at Ruhr University Bochum (Prof. Dr. Katja Sabisch)

2014–2021 | Ph.D. candidate at Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Cultural, Social, and Educational Sciences (primary advisor: Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer) and at the Technical University of Dortmund, Faculty of Education and Sociology (secondary advisor: Prof. Dr. Mona Motakef). Dissertation topic: Fathers on Parental Leave: (Non-)Recognition of Family and Paid Work within the Couple.

2011–2014 | Student Assistant in the Department of Social Inequality and Gender under Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer

2011–2013 | Student Assistant in the Department of Organizational Sociology under Prof. Dr. Frank Kleemann

2009–2013 | Teaching assistant for Basic Sociology, Classical and Modern Sociological Theory, and Classical and Modern Concepts of Society under Prof. Dr. Anja Weiß, Prof. Dr. Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, and Pascal Geißler, M.A. 2013: Tutor in the teaching and research project “On the Organization of Daily Life and Living Conditions of Couples in Precarious Employment” under Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer

2010–2014 | M.A. Sociology studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Duisburg, graduating with an M.A. in Sociology (specializing in Work, Occupation, and Organization) with the M.A. thesis “Un-/Doing Gender in the Everyday Practices of Same-Sex Couples” (Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer, Dr. Mona Motakef)

2007–2010 | B.A. Studied sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Duisburg, graduating with a B.A. in Sociology with the thesis “Habitus or Milieu? A Comparison of the Lifestyle Analyses of Pierre Bourdieu and Gerhard Schulze” (Prof. Dr. Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Pascal Geißler, M.A.)

Gender Equality in Higher Education, Sociology of Gender Relations/Gender Studies, Social Constructivism, Social Inequality, Sociology of Couple Relationships, Research on Masculinity and Fatherhood, Qualitative Methods and Interpretive Paradigm