Research assistant

Contact

Room: S06 S04 C16
Telephone: +49 201 183-6334
Email: meika.sternkopf@uni-due.de

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Research interests

• International comparative social policy research
• Long-term care policies in Latin America
• International organisations in care policies

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Academic​ and professional background

03/2026 - today
Postdoctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1342) ‘Global Dynamics of Social Policy’, Project A07 ‘New Politics of the Ageing Welfare State? Comparing Political Outcomes and Policy Feedback of Long-term Care Policies’, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Institute for Social Work and Social Policy, Social Policy Research Group, University of Duisburg-Essen

01/2022 - 03/2026
Doctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1342) ‘Global Dynamics of Social Policy’, Project A07 „Global Dynamics of Long-term Care Policies“, SOCIUM, Department of Health, Long-term Care and Pensions, University of Bremen

11/2020 - 12/2021
Researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1342) ‘Global Dynamics of Social Policy’, Project A04 „Global Developments in Health Care Systems“, SOCIUM, Department of Health, Long-term Care and Pensions, University of Bremen

05/2017 - 10/20210
Research assistant in BMBF project (Kommunen Innovativ), Social Affairs Department, City of Remscheid

11/2015 - 10/2016  
Student assistant at the Research Institute for Economics of Aging, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria

07-09/2015
Internship at the Consulate General of Germany Barcelona, Spain

08-09/2011
Internship at Cervantes Institute Hamburg

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Publications

Monographs

Sternkopf, Meika. 2025. “International Ideas and Actors in a Multilevel Perspective: The Role of International Organisations in Latin American Long-Term Care Policies.” Dissertation, Universität Bremen. https://doi:10.26092/elib/5580

Journal Articles

Sternkopf, Meika. 2024. “International Actors and National Policies: The Introduction of the National Care System in Uruguay.” Policy Sciences 57 (3): 639–61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09543-8.

Sternkopf, Meika, Gabriela de Carvalho, and Johanna Fischer. 2024. “New Agendas and Old Legacies? Comparing International Organisations’ Proposals on Health and Long-Term Care Systems in Latin America.” Global Social Policy 24 (3): 433–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181241254087.

Articles in Edited Volume

Fischer, Johanna, Meika Sternkopf, and Heinz Rothgang. 2023. “Covering a New Social Risk. The Introduction of Long-Term Care Systems Around the World.” In Mapping Global Dynamics of Social Policy, edited by Ivo Mossig and Herbert Obinger, 32–35. SOCIUM SFB 1342 WorkingPapers/25: Universität Bremen, https://doi:10.26092/elib/2559.

Fischer, Johanna, Alexander Polte, and Meika Sternkopf. 2022. “The Introduction of Long-Term Care Systems: The Nascent Diffusion of an Emergent Field of Social Policy.” In Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion, edited by Michael Windzio, Ivo Mossig, Fabian Besche-Truthe, and Helen Seitzer, 139–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, https://doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83403-6.

Working Paper/Discussion Papers

Rothgang, Heinz, Johanna Fischer, Meika Sternkopf, and Lorraine Frisina Doetter. 2021. “The Classification of Distinct Long-Term Care Systems Worldwide: The Empirical Application of an Actor-Centered Multi-Dimensional Typology.” SOCIUM SFB 1342 WorkingPapers 12, https://doi:10.26092/elib/2744.

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Teaching

Since 2026
Seminar B.A. Social Work (spring), Module Social Policy, University of Duisburg-Essen

2021-2025
Seminar B.A. Public Health (spring), Module System and Law, University of Bremen

2022
Seminar B.A. Public Health (winter), Modul Theories and models of Health and Illness, University of Bremen

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Presentations

03/2025
"The role of international organizations in long-term care", Poster presentation, Conference and Workshop "Long-term care policies in East Asia and Europe: current challenges and future policy options in comparison", 27-29 March 2025, Taipei, Taiwan.

09/2024
“Towards an integrated system of care? The introduction of the National Care System in Uruguay”, Paper presentation, 7th International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-Term Care, The International Long-Term Care Policy Network (ILPN), 12-14 September 2024, Bilbao, Spain.

08/2024
"The emergence and framing of long-term care on the international level: The United Nations and the European Union in comparison", Paper presentation, 13th International NordWel Summer School, 19-23 August 2024, Bremen, Germany.

09/2023
“Inter- and transnational social policy: bringing together research strands, evidence and ideas for studying global interdependencies”, Stream Convener, 21st ESPAnet Annual Conference 2023, 7-9 September 2023, Warsaw, Poland.

06/2023
“The Introduction of the National Care System in Uruguay - International actors and national policies”, Paper presentation, 6th Transforming Care Conference, Transforming Care Network, 26-28 June, Sheffield, UK.

06/2022
“Global social policy actors in Latin America: A comparison of international organisations in the fields of health and long-term care”, Paper presentation, 10th CEISAL International Conference, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.