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Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Scheibelhofer, Privatdoz. M.A.

T: +43-1-4277-48218

elisabeth.scheibelhofer@univie.ac.at

https://inmi.univie.ac.at

Aktuellmeldung: Head of the research team INMI (inmi.ac.at)

Main areas of research:
Migration, diversity and societies, discrimination, transnational migration, transnational social rights, EU migrants, interpretative and qualitative methodologies and methods.

Current research projects see: inmi.univie.ac.at

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CURRICULUM VITAE - Assoc. Prof. Dr. PD Mag. Elisabeth Scheibelhofer, MA

Professional experience and appointments

Since 6/2013:

University of Vienna (Department of Sociology)
Associate Professor

2011-2012:

Maternity leave (12 months)

2011-2013:

University of Vienna (Department of Sociology)
Assistant Professor

2010:

University of Vienna (Department of Sociology)
Tenured junior staff member (’Entfristung’ as University Assistant)

2007-2008:

Maternity leave (12 months)

Since 2004:

University of Vienna (Department of Sociology)
University Assistant for qualitative methodology and sociology of migration

1999 - 2004:

Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (Department of Sociology)

Researcher and project leader

2002 – 2004:

University of Vienna (Institutes for Sociology, Political Science and Pedagogy)

Lecturer for qualitative methodology

Academic Function

Since 2016:

University of Vienna (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Member of the Doctoral Advisory Board Sociology

Since 2013:

Austrian Journal of Sociology – Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ÖZS), Springer
Member of the Editorial Board

2011-2013:

European Sociological Association
First chair of the Research Network 35 ’Sociology of Migration’

2010-2011:

European Sociological Association
Initiator and interim chair of the Research Network 35 ’Sociology of Migration’

Since 2006:

University of Vienna (Department of Sociology)
Member of the Study Conference Sociology

Since 2010:

University of Vienna (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Member of the Faculty Conference

Education

2010:

University of Vienna
Habilitation in Sociology

2001:

University of Vienna
Doctorate (Dr phil.) in Sociology, 22.11.2001

1998–1999:

New School for Social Research (New York City)
Fulbright-Scholar at the Graduate Faculty (Sociology)
M. A. degree in Sociology, 23.5.2000

1991–1996:

University of Vienna
M.A. studies in Sociology
M.A. Diploma received: Mag. rer. soc. oec.

Selected research projects

Mobile Welfare in a Transnational Europe: An Analysis of Portability Regimes of Social Security Rights acronym: TRANSWEL (2015-2018) research project funded by NORFACE (for Austria: FWF), role of E. Scheibelhofer: Principal investigatorfor Austria and work package leader (WP: Individuals’ experiences of inequality resulting from limitations of portability), coordinator: A. Amelina; partners: E. Carmel and A. Runfors.

Zur Bedeutung sozialer Prozesse in internationalen Forschungs- und Entwicklungskooperationen in hochtechnologischen Feldern (2004-2006), (transl.: The significance of social processes in international research and development cooperations), role of E. Scheibelhofer: joint project lead with M. Jonas, M. Unger (both at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna), financed by the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank.

Transnational migration research in a European context (2003-2004), role of E. Scheibelhofer: Projectleader, final report; study financed by the University Jubilee Foundation of the City of Vienna, Municipal department 8.

Mobilitätsperspektiven junger österreichischer WissenschaftlerInnen. Eine qualitative Studie zur Situation österreichischer ForscherInnen in den USA (2001-2003) (transl.: Mobility perspectives of young Austrian researchers. A qualitative study on Austrian scholars in the USA), role of E. Scheibelhofer: projectleader, project report financed by the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank.

Lebenslanges Lernen und Forschung-Wissenschaft-Technologie (2000-2002). (transl.: Life-long learning and research-science-technology), ESF-target 3 evaluation for the Austrian Federal Ministry of economy and work, role of E. Scheibelhofer: researcher together with L. Lassnigg (project leader, IHS), M.Steiner, P. Steiner, Vienna.

Active Labour Market Programmes for People with Disabilities (2001-2002), Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs (EU), role of E. Scheibelhofer: researcher together with L. Lassnigg (project leader, IHS) and EIM Small Business Research, Zoetermeer.

Qualifikation und Erwerbsarbeit von Frauen 1970–2000 (1999-2000) (transl.: Qualification and employment of women 1970-2000), on behalf of the Federal Chamber of Labour Austria, role of E. Scheibelhofer: project leader together with P. Prenner (IHS) and in cooperation with R. Wieser, K. Steiner, ÖIBF.

Selected conference presentations and keynote speechessince 2014 (**on invitation)

**Scheibelhofer, E. (2017), Free movement revisited. Labyrinths of transnational social security for EU migrants. Invited keynote speech (semi-plenary), 13th European Sociological Association Conference, August, Athens.

Scheibelhofer, E. ,Regös, N. (2017), Navigating the labyrinth of social security systems. Experiences of EU migrants with portability of and access to social rights. International Conference on Migration and Welfare, CIRET, May, Rome.

Scheibelhofer, E., Regös, N. (2017), Transnationale soziale Sicherheit als gelebte Realität innerhalb der Europäischen Union? Erfahrungen ungarischer MigrantInnen in Wien in den Bereichen Familie, Arbeitslosigkeit, Gesundheit und Pensionen, espanet conference, April, Vienna.

Amelina, A., Regös, N., Scheibelhofer, E. (2016), Social Protection: Practices and Experiences of Mobile Europeans. The European Promise of Portability of Social Rights Revisited, 3^rd ISA Forum, Vienna.

Scheibelhofer, E. (2015), Shifting aspirations in migratory projects. Biographic reconstructions of mobility practices in second modernity, AAG-Conference, Annual Meeting, Chicago.

**Scheibelhofer, E. (2014), Wenn aus Flüchtlingen Zugewanderte werden. Invited keynote speech, conference ‘Geschlechterverhältnisse der Migrationsgesellschaften. Re-Präsentationen -Kritik - Differenz.’ University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck.

Fellowships, awards (since 2011) and memberships

Award of the City of Vienna for the best young researcher in social sciences (’Förderungspreis für den Bereich Wissenschaft’), for the year 2011.

Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation Award for the habilitation, Vienna, 2011.

Member of the Austrian Sociological Association since 1999.

Member of the European and of the International Sociological Association, both since 2004.

Research stays abroad

Visiting Researcher at the University of Sydney (staff exchange programme of the University of Vienna and the University of Sydney – partners in Sydney: Prof. Stephen Castles and Prof. Nicola Piper), March 2013.

Participant of the Staff Exchange Programme of the University of Vienna and the New York University in New York City (host: Prof. Neil Brenner), December 2009.

Visiting Research Fellow in Huddersfield (Great Britain) at the School of Human and Health Sciences, March/April 2004.

Peer-review activities for book publishers, journals and funding institutions

Referee for journals and editorial houses (such as Current Sociology, European Societies, Migration Letters and Routledge, Taylor & Francis as well as others)

Reviewer for international funding decisions (Academy of Finland, German Federal State of Lower Saxony, and others)

Academic Functions:

Department of Sociology
Erasmus-coordinator for students and staff mobility

Austrian Sociological Association
Elected delegate for nomination and election committee of the Austrian Sociological Association

Since 2016:

University of Vienna (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Member of the Doctoral Advisory Board Sociology I

2013-2018:

Austrian Journal of Sociology – Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ÖZS), Springer Verlag
Member of the Editorial Board

2011-2013:

European Sociological Association
First chair of the Research Network 35 ’Sociology of Migration’

2010-2011:

European Sociological Association
Interim chair of the Research Network 35 ’Sociology of Migration’; proposal submitter of the RN (established by ESA in December 2010)

Since 2006:

University of Vienna (Department of Sociology)
Member of the Study Conference Sociology

Since 2010 (except ‘12-‘14):

University of Vienna (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Member of the Faculty Conference

Organisation of conferences, workshops and research networks

Chair and organiser (together with Vicki Täubig) of a session on 'Refugees in Europe' at the 12th Conference of ESA, Prague, August 2015.

Organiser of 15 sessions for the RN 35 of ESA on 'Sociology of Migration' at the 11th Conference of ESA, Torino, Italy, 28-31 August 2013.

Chair and organiser of a semi-plenary session on 'Arts, Immigrant Integration and Social Cohesion in the Global Crises' at the 11th ESA Conference, Torino, Italy, 31st of August 2013.

Co-organiser of the midterm-conference of the Research Network 35 (Sociology of Migration), ESA, Paris (Science Po, CERI), 3-4 September 2012.

Organiser of 13 sessions for the research network 'Sociology of Migration' at the 10th ESA Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, 7-10 September 2011.

Co-founder of the Research Network 35 on 'Sociology of Migration' within the European Sociological Association; establishment of the RN approved in December 2010 by the ESA Executive Board.

International Conference on 'Researching Migration in Europoe. Empirical research, theoretical and methodological challenges' hosted by the Department of Sociology of the University of Vienna, co-organised together with M. Nowicka (LMU Munich), 19-22 September 2010.

Interdisciplinary workshop on migration, integration and social space, organised with D. Strohmeier and financed by the Idee-Programme of the University of Vienna, held at the Austrian Academy of Science, December 2009.

Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., & Draxl, A-K. (2023). Confronting Racialised Power Asymmetries in the Interview Setting: Positioning Strategies of Highly Qualified Migrants. Social Inclusion, 11(2), 80-89. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6468

Scheibelhofer, E. (2023). The Interpretive Interview. An Interview Form Centring on Research Participants' Constructions. International Journal of Qualitative Methods (IJQM), 22(1-8). https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231168748

Scheibelhofer, E. (2022). Migrants' Experiences With Limited Access to Social Protection in a Framework of EU Post-National Policies. Social Inclusion, 10(1), 164-173. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i4.4660

Scheibelhofer, E., Carmel, E., & Amelina, A. (Hrsg.) (2022). Transnational Social Protection: Inclusion for Whom? Theoretical Reflections and Migrant Experiences. Social Inclusion Band 10 Nr. 1 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/viewIssue/233/PDF233

Scheibelhofer, E. (2022). Transnational Social Protection: Inclusion for Whom? Theoretical Reflections and Migrant Experiences. Social Inclusion, 10(1), 161-163. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.5501

Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., & Draxl, A-K. (2021). Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for Street-Level Bureaucrats in a Monolingually-Oriented Organisation. Social Inclusion, 9(1), 24-34. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i1.3520

Pfadenhauer, M., & Scheibelhofer, E. (Hrsg.) (2020). Interpretative Sozial- und Organisationsforschung. Methodologie und Methoden, Ansätze und Anwendung in Wien. . Beltz Juventa.

Scheibelhofer, E. (2020). Qualitative Forschung im Rahmen sozialwissenschaftlicher Drittmittelforschung – ein unüberbrückbarer Widerspruch? in M. Pfadenhauer, & E. Scheibelhofer (Hrsg.), Interpretative Sozial- und Organisationsforschung: Methodologie und Methoden, Ansätze und Anwendung in Wien (S. 80-93). Beltz Juventa.

Scheibelhofer, E. (2019). Conceptualising the social positioning of refugees reflections on socio-institutional contexts and agency with a focus on work. Identities.Global Studies in Culture and Power, 26(3), 289-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1589980

Scheibelhofer, E., & Täubig, V. (2019). Beyond employability: refugees' working lives. Identities.Global Studies in Culture and Power, 26(3), 261-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1590027

Scheibelhofer, E. (2019). Potential of qualitative network analysis in migration studies – reflections based on an empirical analysis of young researchers’ mobility aspirations. in I. Sirkeci, T. Iosifides, C. DeTona, & A. Frisina (Hrsg.), Reader in Qualitative Methods in Migration Research (S. 111-120). Transnational Press, London.

Amelina, A., Carmel, E., Runfors, A., & Scheibelhofer, E. (Hrsg.) (2019). Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens' Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences . Routledge.

Scheibelhofer, E. (2019). Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad. in I. Sirkeci, T. Iosifides, C. DeTona, & A. Frisina (Hrsg.), Reader in Qualitative Methods in Migration Research (S. 33-41). Transnational Press, London.

Amelina, A., Carmel, E., Runfors, A., & Scheibelhofer, E. (2019). Labyrinths of European social citizenship: variations in and levels of comparison. in Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences Routledge.

Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., & Regös, E. N. (2019). Navigating the labyrinths of transnational social security: experiences and meaning-making processes of EU migrants when accessing and porting social rights. in A. Amelina, E. Carmel, A. Runfors, & E. Scheibelhofer (Hrsg.), Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences (Band 1). Routledge.

Regös, E. N., Holzinger, C., & Scheibelhofer, E. (2019). When vicinity divides: transnational social security in the cross-Bbrder region of Hungary and Austria. in A. Amelina, E. Carmel, A. Runfors, & E. Scheibelhofer (Hrsg.), Boundaries of European Social Citizenship: EU Citizens’ Transnational Social Security in Regulations, Discourses and Experiences Routledge.

Bakonyi, N., Regös, E. N., Holzinger, C., & Scheibelhofer, E. (2018). Any Transnational Social Security Out There? Hungarian mobile citizens and their experiences with (transnational) social security access in Austria. https://welfarestatefutures.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/wsf-working-paper-transwel-2-june-2018-final.pdf

Scheibelhofer, E., & Holzinger, C. (2018). ‘Damn It, I Am a Miserable Eastern European in the Eyes of the Administrator’: EU Migrants’ Experiences with (Transnational) Social Security. Social Inclusion, 6(3), 201-209. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i3.1477

Scheibelhofer, E. (2018). Opening the Black Box - Three Approaches to Interpretation in Participant Observation Studies. Sociology and Anthropology, 6(10), 775-783. https://doi.org/10.13189/sa.2018.061003

Scheibelhofer, E. (2018). Shifting migration aspirations in second modernity. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(6), 999-1014. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1384151

Eingeschränkte Mobilität in Zeiten der COVID-19-Pandemie

Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., Wexenberger, Y. & Draxl, A.

1/03/23 → 28/02/26

Projekt: Forschungsförderung

Herstellung von Dequalifizierung bei "neuen" EU Migrant*innen

Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C., Draxl, A., Baxant-Cejnar, L., Kuklova, M., Hirschvogl, C., Nitu, C., Nyari, I. & Ledó, A.

1/05/21 → 30/04/25

Projekt: Forschungsförderung

AMIGS: Arbeitsvermittlung im Kontext migrationsbedingter sprachlicher Diversität

Scheibelhofer, E., Holzinger, C. & Draxl, A.

1/09/19 → 30/09/21

Projekt: Forschungsförderung

Wohlfahrtsstaats-Typologie

Scheibelhofer, E. & Holzinger, C.

28/10/14 → 28/10/17

Projekt: Forschungsförderung

“It's not a must always but it's a big plus” - How highly qualified migrants from CEE-countries experience the importance of German language on the Austrian labour market

Clara Holzinger (Vortragende*r), Elisabeth Scheibelhofer (Vortragende*r) & Anna-Katharina Draxl (Vortragende*r)

8 Sep. 2023

Aktivität: Vorträge › Vortrag › Science to Science