© Volker Beinhorn

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I lead the Chair of Sociology, especially Family and Work at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and am a project leader at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. Before, I was Assistant Professor of Sociology of the Welfare State and from 2018 to 2021 Interim Chair of Macrosociology at the University of Mannheim. I studied Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin and received my PhD from the University of Cologne in November 2013. I was then a postdoctoral fellow at the SOCIUM Research Center at the University of Bremen, and in 2017 a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

What factors influence the relationship of life courses and old age wellbeing across Europe? How does caregiving affect individuals’ labour force participation and wellbeing ? What explains gender inequality in the (pension) wealth accumulation over the life course? How do migrants in Europe age well? Which quotas for leadership positions are accepted by citizens and why?

These and related questions are the focus of my research agenda. I am PI of the international research project “Do migrants in Europe age well? A mixed methods and intervention study in four countries (MIG-AGE)” (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation) and of the project “Life course, wealth and retirement income in East and West Germany: A cohort and gender comparison (AGE-WEALTH)” (funded by the FNA Research Network on Old-Age Provision). Since 2019, I have been co-project leader of the interdisciplinary junior research group “Integration of Migrants and Attitudes towards the Welfare State (IMES)” (funded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs).

I am co-editor of the Journal of Social Policy Research, member of the editorial board of the journal Work, Aging and Retirement, board member of the Section Social Policy of the German Sociological Association, and active in the ESPAnet Germany group.

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