Staff

The many faces of GESIS

Vita

  • Since 03/2025: Research assistant in the BMAS-funded project “Attitudes toward social policy in times of social transformation and crises” (ESTuK)
  • 09/2024 - 02/2025: Research assistant in the project “Deutschland-Monitor”, data preparation
  • Since 09/2024: Doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS), University of Mannheim
  • 08/2021 - 07/2024: M.A., Sociology, University of Mannheim
  • 10/2017 - 07/2021: B.A., Sociology and Media Studies, University of Tübingen

Research

Sociology of migration, family policy, attitudes toward social policy
Dissertation topic (working title): “Ethnic Inequalities in the Uptake and Effects of Family Policies in Germany”

Publications

Journal article

Reifenscheid, Maximiliane, Katja Möhring, and Sophia Hamdorf. 2024. "Auf dem Weg zu einem neuen Arbeitszeitparadigma? Einstellungen in der Bevölkerung zu Gewerkschaftsforderungen nach einer Arbeitszeitverkurzung." DIFIS-Impuls 2024 (1): . https://www.difis.org/publikationen/publikation/68/.

Data/Software

Hamdorf, Sophia, Jörg Hebenstreit, Everhard Holtmann, Tobias Jaeck, Lynn-Malou Lutz, Reinhard Pollak, Marion Reiser, Matthias Sand, and Pierre Zissel. 2025. Deutschland-Monitor ´24 - Haupterhebung. doi: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14486.

Hamdorf, Sophia, Jörg Hebenstreit, Everhard Holtmann, Tobias Jaeck, Lynn-Malou Lutz, Reinhard Pollak, Marion Reiser, Matthias Sand, and Pierre Zissel. 2025. Deutschland-Monitor ´24 - Regionale Vertiefungserhebung. doi: https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14487.

Presentation at a conference

Hamdorf, Sophia. 2025. "Inequalities in the uptake of formal childcare and paid parental leave among native and migrant couples in Germany." Fertility and Family Dynamics in Migrant and Minority Groups, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, 2025-10-03.