Dr. Birgit Apitzsch

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Research Associate

Research

 

Research areas:

 

Sociology of work, organisations and labour markets, industrial relations, institutional theory, comparative and transnational sociology

In particular:

  • transformation and regulation of work, organisation and employment, informal/informalised employment, non-standard work;

  • social networks and new actors in industrial relations;

  • changing labour market institutions;

  • transnational work in Europe and trafficking in human beings;

  • knowledge-intensive and personal services, professions

 

 

Research projects with external funding:

 

Working conditions of highly-skilled solo-self-employed workers – The role of staffing agencies and traditional actors of industrial relations in negotiation processes (2015-2017, with Prof. Dr. Maximiliane Wilkesmann and Dr. Caroline Ruiner, TU Dortmund), Mercur (Mercator Research Center Ruhr).

 

Study on comprehensive policy review of anti-trafficking projects funded by the European Commission

(2015-2016, project leader: Professor Sylvia Walby OBE, Lancaster University; in the German project with Karen A. Shire), European Commission.

 

Study on the gender dimension of trafficking in human beings

(2014-2015, project leader: Professor Sylvia Walby OBE, Lancaster University; in the German project with Karen A. Shire and Markus Tünte), European Commission.

 

Global Young Faculty III, Working Group „Anreizsysteme im Gesundheitswesen“ [Incentives in Health Care]

(2013-2015, Stiftung Mercator in cooperation with the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (UAMR), coordinated by the Mercator Research Centre Ruhr (MERCUR) in Essen).