Sardadvar, Karin

Karin Sardadvar works as a senior post-doc researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Social Research. She conducts the SPLITWORK project (2018-2023), funded in the Elise Richter Programme of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). The project investigates the working-time model of “split shifts” in the cleaning and the care sectors. At WU Wien, she teaches in the fields of qualitative research methods, empirical social research, and sustainable work.

Abstract SPLITWORK (English)

Main research areas:

  • Work and gender

  • Distribution of paid and unpaid work; reproductive work; care

  • Working conditions in service and low-wage sectors

  • Interpretive sociological theories; sociology of knowledge

  • Interpretative social research and qualitative methods

Research and teaching experience:

  • 2022-2023: Interim professor for gender and globalization at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

  • Since 2020: Lecturer for qualitative methods and gender studies at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria

  • 2018-2023: Senior post-doc researcher (Elise Richter Programme, FWF Austrian Science Fund) at the Institute for Sociology and Social Research, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien)

  • Autumn 2021: Guest researcher at the University of Linköping (LIU), Sweden

  • Spring 2019: Guest researcher at SINTEF Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  • 2017: Post-doc university assistant, Competence Centre for Empirical Research Methods, Vienna University of Economics and Business (part-time)

  • 2015-2017: Lecturer for qualitative empirical research, Vienna University of Economics and Business

  • 2015-2016: Post-doc university assistant, Competence Centre for Empirical Research Methods, Vienna University of Economics and Business (fixed-term position)

  • 2014-2017: Senior Researcher, Working Life Research Centre FORBA, Vienna

  • 2010-2013: Junior Researcher, Working Life Research Centre FORBA, Vienna

  • 2005-2012: Lecturer for interpretative theories, qualitative methods, family research and gender studies, University of Vienna

  • 2006-2008: Lecturer for family research and gender studies, University of Graz

Education:

  • 2020-2021: Training as certified trainer (didactics and teaching methods), Orbium Seminare Berlin, Germany

  • Doctoral studies in sociology in Vienna and Graz (2011 Dr.phil.)

  • Graduate of the postgraduate programme ‘Vocational Qualification in the Social Sciences’ (SoQua) (2008) in Vienna

  • Graduate of the postgraduate programme in sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) (2006) in Vienna

  • Graduate studies in sociology and languages in Vienna, London and Stockholm (2004 Mag.rer.soc.oec.)

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