Current research projects
Attitudes Toward Education and Educational Success
Project manager: Dr. Judith Offerhaus
Changes in the family network after parental divorce, funded with a Walter Benjamin Position (DFG)
Project manager: Vera de Bel
Demographic and social reproduction of education: an international study
Project management part 1: Dr. Gordey Yastrebov
Employees: Vanessa Wittemann, Zuzana Zilincikova
Duration: Until 30th April 2024
Project management part 2: Prof. Dr. Thomas Leopold
Employees: Vanessa Wittemann
Duration: Bis 31. August 2025
Employment of Women During the Corona Crisis
• Principal investigators: Dr. Lukas Fervers, Prof. Dr. Marita Jacob (University of Cologne), Prof. Silke Anger (IAB Institute
for Employment Research)
• Research assistants: Lina Tobler (University of Cologne), Dr. Bernhard Christoph,…
ENHANCE
Principal investigators: Sebastian Sattler (Cologne) and Prof. Dr. Guido Mehlkop (Erfurt)
Further contact person: Prof. Dr. Clemens Kroneberg
ERC Starting Grant „Social Integration and Boundary Making in Adolescence (SOCIALBOND)“
The SOCIALBOND team:
Clemens Kroneberg (PI)
4 PhD students (starting February 2018)
FReDA
Project management: Carolin Thönnissen, Rüdiger Lenke & Nina Schumann
Duration: January 2020 - December 2024
Friendship and Violence in Adolescence
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Clemens Kroneberg
Research assistants: André Ernst, Maria Gerth, Kathrin Lämmermann
Friendship and violence in adolescence 2024 (FuGJ 2024)
Project management: Prof. Dr. Clemens Kroneberg
Scientific staff: Alexandra Heyden, Maximilian Pickartz, Fiona Seiffert
Student assistants: Amelie Breer, Marie Moneke
Future and Career plans before before high school graduation (ZuBAb study)
A cooperation project between the University of Cologne and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
German Family Panel (pairfam)
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Karsten Hank
Research assistant: Martin Wetzel
since May 2014
Juvenile delinquency in urban school and residential contexts
PI: Prof. Dr. Clemens Kroneberg
Scientific Staff: Dipl.-Soz. André Ernst, N.N.
Student Assistants: N.N.
Kinmatrix
Social networks and well-being: A multi-method study
PI: Prof. Dr. Lea Ellwardt
Staff members: Amelie Reiner, Paula Steinhoff
The Cologne Refugee Projects
Project manager: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Friedrichs
Research assistants: Felix Leßke, M.A. and Vera Schwarzenberg, M.A