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  • Since 08/2021: Research Assistant (Postdoc) at GESIS in the department Data Services for the Social Sciences (DSS) within KonsortSWD (NFDI)
  • 04/2021: PhD "Institutionalisierte Identität - Eine soziologische Analyse formaler Identität in nationalen Verfassungen" (2021) 
  • 2016-2021: Research Assistant at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in the department Sociology I (Prof. Dr. Annette Schnabel)
  • Studies of Social Sciences (Master of Arts) and Sociology (Bachelor of Arts)
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Service

Content and conceptual support of a knowledge platform on the topic of research data management, as well as development of a certificate course on the topic of research data management for the handling of data from the social, behavioral, educational and economic sciences,
behavioral, educational, and economic sciences for FDZ staff as an offer of KonsortSWD within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).  
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Research

Sociology of the constitution, sociology of religion, sociology of social actors, competence profiles in the field of research data management To top

Publications

Publication

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Journal article

Behrens, Kathrin. 2020. "The Legal Interpellation of Citizens – A Constitutional Analysis." Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie 2020 (vol. 41, no. 1): 44-70. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/zfrs-2021-0004.

Schnabel, Annette, Kathrin Behrens, and Florian Grötsch. 2017. "Religion in European constitutions – cases of different secularities." European Societies 2017 (19:5): 551-579. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2017.1334946.

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Chapter in an edited book

Behrens, Kathrin. 2021. "Formal Citizenship in European Constitutions." In Democratic Citizenship in Flux. Conceptions of Citizenship in the Light of Political and Social Fragmentation, edited by Markus Bayer, Oliver Schwarz, and Toralf Stark, Edition Politik 85, 83-100. Bielefeld: transcript. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839449493.

Schnabel, Annette, Heiko Beyer, and Kathrin Behrens. 2020. "Religious Freedom, Equality Rights and their Contentious Implementation: Norm Conflicts Deriving from the Chasm between International and National Human Rights." In Religion, Migration, and Existential Wellbeing, edited by Moa Kindström Dahlin, Oscar L. Larsson, and Anneli Winell, 36–53. London: Routledge.

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Monograph

Behrens, Kathrin. 2021. Institutionalisierte Identität: Eine Soziologische Analyse Formaler Identität in Nationalen Verfassungen. Düsseldorf: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf. urn: urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20210503-110834-7.

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Other article

Behrens, Kathrin. 2014. "Können wir unsere Emotionen wählen – und warum sollten wir? Die rationale Wahl von Emotionen und die sozialen Entscheidungsregeln (Teil 1 & 2)." https://soziologieblog.hypotheses.org/7316.

Lecture

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Presentation at a conference

Behrens, Kathrin. 2023. "A Competence Matrix for Data Curation." IASSIST 2023, 2023-05-31. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8013777.

Behrens, Kathrin. 2022. "Data Sustainability by Professionalization of Research Data Management." IASSIST 2022 - Data By Design, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2022-06-10. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6983026.

Behrens, Kathrin. 2019. "Die formale Dimension der Staat-Religion-Beziehung: eine vergleichende Verfassungsanalyse." Gemeinsame Tagung der Sektionen Religionssoziologie sowie politische Soziologie der DGS & Arbeitskreis Politik und Religion der DVPW, Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, 2019-04-15.

Behrens, Kathrin. 2018. "Religious Freedoms as part of the European national constitutions – differences and similarities." The Impact of Religion - An interdisciplinary conference at Uppsala University, University Uppsala, Uppsala, 2018-04-17.

Behrens, Kathrin. 2018. "Secular Constitutions? The State-Religion-Relationship in National Constitutions." XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology 2018, ISA 2018, Toronto, 2018-07-17.

Behrens, Kathrin, and Florian Grötsch. 2014. "Constitutions in Europe - do they shape religious self-understandings?" ESA Sociology of Religion Research Network Conference "Religion in the Public Domain" , Belfast, 2014-09-04.

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Presentation not at a conference

Behrens, Kathrin. 2019. "Citizenship – Its Formal Dimension in Constitutions." Workshop: Democratic Citizenship in Flux, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, 2019-06-17.

Behrens, Kathrin. 2019. "The Formal Interpellation Of Belonging - A Comparative Constitutional Analysis ." ESA PhD Summer School "Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging", University of Manchester, Manchester, 2019-08-19.

Teaching

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Seminar

Behrens, Kathrin, and Annette Schnabel. 2019. "Soziologische Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Mensch und Maschine." Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. 1: 2 SWS.

Behrens, Kathrin, and Annette Schnabel. 2017. "Soziologische Perspektiven der Mensch-Tier-Kommunikation." Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. 1: 2 SWS.

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Tutorial

Behrens, Kathrin. 2017. "Übung Basismodul Soziologie I." Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. 2 SWS.

Behrens, Kathrin. 2017. "Übung Basismodul Soziologie II." Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. 1: 2 SWS.

Organisation

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Event

Bechert, Insa, Kathrin Behrens, and Insa Pruisken. 2018. "Big Data in der Religionsforschung: Theoretische und methodische Herausforderungen der digitalen Wende." Arbeitskreis quantitativer Religionsforschung, Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, 2018-11-12.

Behrens, Kathrin, Antonia May, and Werhan Katharina. 2018. "Projekt-Workshop “Old and new boundaries: National Identities and Religion”." Projekt-Workshop “Old and new boundaries: National Identities and Religion”, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, 2018-12-06.