Dr. Karin Sardadvar
Dr. Karin Sardadvar
Picture: Heribert Corn
Research interest: Work and Gender, modes of work, Work and Life, reproductive work, Care, working conditions in the service economy, working hours, interpretive theory and sociology of knowledge, qualitative methods
Research Project: SPLITWORK (Split Shifts and the Fragmentation of Working Times, Austrian Science Fund (FWF): V-598
Link: WU Fides (wu-wien.ac.at)
Current teaching in WiSe 22/23:
Sustainable work and sustainable livelihoods: Sustainable work and livelihood from a gender perspective.
Project seminar: Working conditions in service industries
Qualitative research methods in gender studies and feminist methodological critique
Questions of Time: From Working Time to Time Wealth - Social Science Perspectives on the Understanding of Time
Biography:
Karin Sardadvar works as interim professor at the Division of Gender and Globalisation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from April 2022 until March 2023.
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:
- 2018-2022: Senior post-doc researcher funded in the Elise Richter Programme of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Institute for Sociology and Social Research, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 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:
- Professional trainer, Orbium Seminare Berlin (2021)
- 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.)