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Academic Positions and Research Experience:
2012 Senior research associate at the Department for Sociology, University of
Hannover (since October 2012)
2012 Post-doc research stipendiary of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the HIS –
Higher Education Research Institute, Hannover, Germany and the University
of Trento, Italy (May-September 2012)
2006-2012 Research Associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Mannheim Centre
for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim.
Publications:
Journal Articles
• 2009-2012: Researcher in the PhD research project “Educational
Expansion and the Differentiation of Upper Secondary Degrees.
Mechanisms of Social Selectivities in the Transition to Higher Education“.
• 2006-2012: Researcher in the research project “Social Selectivity in
Tertiary Education and Labour Market and Stratification Outcomes”.
• 2006-2010: Research Group Manager of the Research Group “Education,
Social Mobility and Social Cohesion (EDUC)” and administrative
coordinator of the MZES partner institute in the EU Network of Excellence
“Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC)”.
Neugebauer, Martin and Steffen Schindler (2012): Early Transitions and Tertiary Enrolment:
The Cumulative Impact of Primary and Secondary Effects on Entering University in
Germany. Acta Sociologica 55 (1): 31-48.
Schindler, Steffen and David Reimer (2011): Differentiation and Social Selectivity in German
Higher Education, Higher Education 61 (3): 261-275.
Schindler, Steffen, Felix Weiss and Tobias Hubert (2011): Explaining the Class Gap in
Training - the Role of Employment Relations and Job Characteristics, International
Journal of Lifelong Education 30 (2): 213-232.
Schindler, Steffen and Markus Lörz (2011): Mechanisms of Social Inequality Development:
Primary and Secondary Effects in the Transition to Tertiary Education between 1976 and
2005, European Sociological Review (advance access), doi: 10.1093/esr/jcr032.
Lörz, Markus and Steffen Schindler (2011): Bildungsexpansion und soziale Ungleichheit:
Zunahme, Abnahme oder Persistenz ungleicher Chancenverhältnisse – eine Frage der
Perspektive? [Educational Expansion and Social Inequality: Increase, Decline or
Persistence of Unequal Opportunities – a Matter of Perspective?] Zeitschrift für Soziologie
40 (6): 458-477.
Lörz, Markus, Steffen Schindler and Jessica G. Walter (2011): Gender Inequalities in Higher
Education: Extent, Development and Mechanisms of Gender Differences in Enrolment
and Field of Study Choice, Irish Educational Studies 30 (2): 181-193.
Schindler, Steffen, and David Reimer (2010): Primäre und sekundäre Effekte der sozialen
Herkunft beim Übergang in die Hochschulbildung [Primary and Secondary Effects of
Social Origin in the Transition to Higher Education], Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und
Sozialpsychologie 62 (4): 623-653.
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