BGHS

Heike Greschke

Research topics

• Qualitative Methodologies (Ethnomethodology, Ethnography, Communication Analysis)
• Globalization and World Society
• Media and Migration
• Research on Youth Welfare

Academic Positions

2009 - present

Post-Doc fellow at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology: coordination and supervision of the junior research group "KlimaWelten" (Climate Worlds).

2007 - 2009

Researcher at the Faculty of Educational Science, University of Bielefeld: engaged in the scientific supervision of a pilot program for "effect-oriented improvement of youth welfare services", financed by the German Federal Government.

2007 - 2008

Researcher at the Centre of Globalization and Global Governance, University of Hamburg: engaged in a research project about aspects of gender equality in the German Excellence Initiative, financed by the German Federal Government.

2004

Visiting fellow, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, Mentor: Luis Guarnizo; fieldwork in Paraguay and Argentina.

2003 - 2007

Researcher at the Institute for World Society Studies, University of Bielefeld, research training group on "World Concepts and Global Structural Patterns", Supervisors: Jörg R. Bergmann, Bettina Heintz.

Academic Degrees

2008 PhD (Dr. Phil.)

Sociology, University of Bielefeld (summa cum laude).

2003 Intermediate Exam

Sociology, University of Bielefeld.

1995 MBA (Diplom FH)

Social Work, University of Applied Sciences, Koblenz.

Academic Honours

2009

University of Bielefeld: best dissertation of the Faculty of Sociology in 2008.

2004 - 2007

German Research Foundation (DFG): scholarship for PhD research.

2002 - 2003

European Union, Sokrates/Erasmus-Programm: scholarship for graduate studies in Social Anthropology at the University of Sevilla.

Memberships

• Institute for World Society Studies, University of Bielefeld
• Network of Young Scholars, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld
• ICT-Migrations-Research-Program, FMSH Paris
• Section "Sociology of Knowledge", German Sociological Association (DGS)
• Section "Migration und ethnic Minorities", DGS

Publications

2011

No matter, who you are? Communicative practices of belonging and distinction in medial everyday life of transnational migration. In: Stegbauer, Christian (Hg.), Ungleichheit aus kommunikations- und mediensoziologischer Perspektive, VS-Verlag (forthcoming) (German).

Make yourself at home in www.cibervalle.com - Meanings of proximity and togetherness in the era of 'broadband society'. In: Fortunati, Leopoldina, Raul Pertierra & Jane Vincent (Hg.), Migrations, Diaspora, and Information Technology in Global Societies, Routledge (in print).

Is There a Home in Cyberspace? The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities (English and revised version of the german print At Home in www.cibervalle.com: Meanings of Togetherness in Migrants' Mediated Everyday Life from 2009), Routledge (i.V.)

2010

Mediated cultures of mobility: The art of positioning ethnography in global landscapes, Bielefeld: COMCAD (Working Papers - Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development; 78).

Effect Oriented Improvement of Youth Welfare Services: Final Report of the Scientific Supervision (German, with Stefanie Albus, Birte Klingler, Heinz Messmer, Heinz-Günter Micheel, Hans-Uwe Otto & Andreas Polutta), Münster (and others): Waxmann.

2009

At Home in www.cibervalle.com: Meanings of Togetherness in Migrants' Mediated Everyday Life. Qualitative Soziologie, Band 10, Lucius & Lucius (German; English version coming in 2011).

Handbook for practice on effect oriented qualification of facilities of education. Wirkungsorientierte Jugendhilfe, Band 09, hrsg. v. ISA Planung und Entwicklung GmbH (with Stefanie Albus, Stefan Eberitsch, Désirée Frese, Birte Klingler, Heinz Messmer, Heinz-Günter Micheel, Dirk Nüsken, Hans-Uwe Otto & Andreas Polutta) (German).

2008

Women in Cutting-Edge-Research: An Inventory of Measures to Achieve Gender Equality in the Three Funding Lines of the German Excellence Initiative. Preliminary Report, Hamburg (German, limited circulation, with Anita Engels, Jönna Atzeroth & Stephanie Zuber).

"¡Ahora el mundo los está mirando!" - Transnational Negotiationss of Paraguay-ness in an Internet based global community. In: Thies, Sebastian & Josef Raab (Eds.). E Pluribus Unum? National and Transnational Identities in the Americas / Identidades nacionales y transnacionales en las Américas. Münster [et al.]: Lit Verlag (English, Abstract in Spanish).

Does It Matter Where You Are? - Transnational Migration, Internet Usage and the Emergence of Global Togetherness. In: Anghel, Remus, Eva Gerharz, Gilberto Rescher & Monika Salzbrunn (Hrsg.). The Making of "World Society": Transnational Practices and Global Patterns, Bielefeld: Transkript (English).

Preliminary Report of the Scientific Supervision. In: "Effect Oriented Improvement of Youth Welfare Services", Volume 06 (German, with Stefanie Albus, Birte Klingler, Heinz Messmer, Heinz-Günter Micheel, Hans-Uwe Otto & Andreas Polutta).

2007

Logging Into the Field? - Methodological Reflections on Ethnographic Research in a Pluri-Local and Computer-Mediated Field (45 Paragraphs), Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8(3), Art. 32, (German, Abstract in English).

2004

Not in charge! Death of a paraguayan woman in Spain mobilizes the global community. In: ila - Zeitschrift der Informationsstelle Lateinamerikas, Nr. 283 (German).

Teaching Experience

2010

Lecturer, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, Department of Cultural Studies: "Ethnography of mobile cultures" (Grad.).

2009/10

Lecturer, University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Sociology: "A broad field: Ethnography of global phenomena" (Postgrad.).

2009

Lecturer, University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Sociology: "Reflexivity as a Resource for Qualitative Social Research" (Grad. and Postgrad.).

Lecturer, University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Educational Science: "Youth welfare planning conferences: approaching a vital object of youth welfare (research) through discourse and practice" (Grad.).

2008/09

Lecturer, University of Hamburg: "Qualitative Social Research as interaction: data, field of research and researcher" (Grad.).