University of Siegen
The University of Siegen (USIEGEN) in Germany
was founded in 1972 and has quickly developed into a center of quality
research and teaching in the “three-border-region” of the states Hessen,
Rhineland Palatine and North Rhine Westphalia, with approx. 16,800
enrolled students. It maintains extensive cooperation with numerous
universities and research institutions all over the world and
partnerships with over 130 European universities.
In LIVEWHAT, research work is conducted by the Department of Social Sciences that is part of the Faculty of Arts and an entity of advanced social research. Its core areas of research comprise six main topics, amongst them European Studies, Political Sociology and Social Problems, which are of immediate relevance for the livewhat project. It hosts a series of empirical research projects funded by institutions like the German Research Council, the Volkswagen-Stiftung, the European Commission, the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, and the German Academic Exchange Program, amongst others. Its dual PhD program on ‘European and Global Studies’ with the University of Lancaster promotes young scholars and provides opportunities for academic exchange between doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.
Members of the German team
Professor Christian Lahusen
is the principal investigator of the German team. He holds a Chair of
Sociology at the Faculty of Arts. He studied in Düsseldorf and Madrid,
received his PhD from the European University Institute (Florence), and
received his habilitation from the University of Bamberg. His research
interests include political sociology, European studies, labor markets
and social exclusion. He has directed and participated in a number of
national and international research projects on topics relating to
contentious politics, civil society and social exclusion, most of them
with a European and comparative perspective. His research has been
funded by the German Research Council, the German Academic Exchange
Program, the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial
Society, and the Ministry for Science and Education of North-Rhine
Westphalia, among others. He was responsible for the German case study
in the UNEMPOL project (EU FP5) and the YOUNEX project (EU FP7), and
participated in the management committee. Publications include 12 books
and edited collections, and more than 70 articles and book chapters.
For more information visit: http://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/soziologie/mitarbeiter/lahusen/?lang=de
Johannes Kiess
is researcher in the German team. He studied political science,
sociology and philosophy at the University of Leipzig and in Be’erSheba.
His research interests include European studies, political theory and
political sociology with a focus on right-wing extremism. Since 2010 he
is involved in a long-term study on right-wing extremist attitudes in
Germany. In his PhD project he investigates the conflictual basis of
European societal integration.
For more information visit: http://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/soziologie/mitarbeiter/kiess_johannes/index.html?lang=en?lang=de.