Heike Greschke

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Heike Mónika Greschke (* 1969 ) is a German sociologist with a research focus on empirical analyzes of migration and / or media-related transformation processes in society and their methodological reflection. She has been a professor at the Technical University of Dresden since 2016 .

Life

Greschke initially studied social pedagogy at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Applied Sciences in Koblenz from 1990 to 1995 . She completed her studies with a degree in social education. As a result, she worked for a number of years at the Mädchenhaus Bielefeld e. V. before she began postgraduate studies in sociology at Bielefeld University (2001–2003). From 2003 to 2003 she also studied social and cultural anthropology at the Universidad de Sevilla , before working in field research in Paraguay and Argentina and as a visiting scholar at the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California in 2004 . From 2004 to 2007 she was a PhD scholarship holder at the DFG graduate college “World Concepts and Global Structural Patterns” at the International Graduate School in Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. She did her doctorate with a dissertation on the topic “At home in www.cibervalle.com - Coexistence in the everyday media of migration”. This work was awarded the dissertation prize of the University Society.

Between 2007 and 2009 Greschke was employed as a research assistant as part of the evaluation team of the federal model program “Impact- Oriented Youth Welfare ” at the Faculty of Education at Bielefeld University, and from 2008 to 2009 as a research assistant in the third-party funded project “Women in Top Research” at the Faculty of Economics - and social sciences at the University of Hamburg . In 2009 she took over the coordination and supervision of the junior research group "Climate Worlds" at the Bielefeld Graduate School for History and Sociology , which she held until 2012. In the summer semester of 2009 she also worked as a lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt.

In 2012 the sociologist became junior professor for sociology with a focus on media sociology at the Institute for Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . There, in a project funded by the German Research Foundation, from 2014 to 2016 she examined the importance of communication technologies for the long-term maintenance and transformation of parent-child relationships in trans-state organized families. As part of this research project, she founded the online platform migr @ com , which is intended to publicize and research the role of communication technologies in migration societies. Migr @ com won the 2014 university competition “More than Bits and Bytes - Young Scientists Communicate Their Work”.

In September 2016 she was appointed to the professorship for sociological comparison of cultures and qualitative social research at the Technical University of Dresden.

Since 2018 she has been the sub-project manager in the Dresden Collaborative Research Center 1285: “Invectivity. Constellations and dynamics of degradation ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Subproject R: Sociological comparison of cultures and qualitative social research. Retrieved May 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Greschke, Heike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greschke, Heike Mónika (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969