Section: Research Student Profiles
Hannah Zagel
- Name Hannah Zagel
- Organisation
- Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Room 3.01, Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 131 650 6544
- hzagel@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Inequality,Labour Market,Welfare states
- URL
- http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/zagel_hannah
PhD Title
The dynamics of single motherhood, social policy and women's labour market attachment trajectories in Germany and the UK
Qualifications
- MA Sociology, FU Berlin, Germany
- BA Sociology, University of Hamburg, Germany
Supervisors
Alison Koslowski and Ingela Naumann
Research focus
Hannah's main research interests are in welfare state regimes, family and partnership, theories of work and general sociological theory.
Her PhD research looks at the relationships between single motherhood experiences, social policy and work trajectories of women in Britain and West Germany. It aims at understanding variations in work biographies of women with single motherhood experience in different welfare state settings. The empirical analysis is based on national micro-level panel data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Among other quantitative methods, Hannah applies sequence analysis to compare women's labour market attachment trajectories within and across specific institutional settings.
In her MA dissertation Hannah investigated the measure of skill specificity, used in the Varieties of Capitalism framework, in a comparative perspective between the UK and Germany. The focus was on the relationship between skill specificity and occupational sex segregation in different types of market economies. Hannah's BA looked at the development of compulsory sterilisation legislation in Sweden and Germany in the 1930s from a historical comparative perspective.
Other work
Since September 2010: Editorial Officer, Journal of European Social Policy
April – September 2010: Research Assistant, Dr Ingela Naumann, University of Edinburgh
Sep 2009 – Dec 2009: Tutor, European Social Policy (UG level)
Feb 2008 – Jun 2009: Student Research Assistant, Prof Heiner Ganssmann, FU Berlin
Awards and appointments
Hannah holds a School of Social and Political Science Graduate School Scholarship.
She has been awarded an Annual Grant for Doctoral Students 2011/12 from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD Jahresstipendium für Doktoranden).
Hannah has received an award from the ESRC/SFC-sponsored Advanced Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN Scotland) in order to present a paper entitled, "Lone mothers' perceptions of their children's behaviour - evidence from the Growing Up in Scotland Longitudinal survey," which was co-authored with fellow doctoral candidates Gitit Kadar-Satat and Myrthe Jacobs, at the British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference in Leeds in April 2012.
She is co-winner of the Sue Grant Service Award 2010-11, awarded by the Graduate School for Social and Political Science for 'the most significant contribution to the postgraduate or wider community' (together with Maddie Breeze, Hilary Cornish, Aoife McKenna, Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin, Kathleen Ward and Joanna Wiseman).
Hannah was a visiting researcher at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), May-July 2011.
Memberships
Work, Economy and Welfare Research Group (Social Policy, University of Edinburgh)
Labour Markets & Gender Equality Research Group (Social Policy, University of Edinburgh)
Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN, Scotland)
Social Policy Association (UK)
British Sociological Association (UK)
Familiensektion der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK)
AHRC Network: Post-separation families and shared residence
Selected presentations
March 2012, "Single motherhood and early labour market involvement in Germany and the UK", 8th Young Scholars SOEP Symposium, Delmenhorst, Germany.
March 2012, "The impact of regular parental contact and parental cohabitation on young adults' transition to university in the UK", 4th meeting of AHRC Network on Post-separation families and shared parenting, Birmingham, UK.
October 2011,"The dynamics of single motherhood and labour market attachment trajectories of women in Britain and West Germany", German ESPAnet Doctoral Workshop, Bremen, Germany.
September 2011,"The dynamics of single motherhood and labour market attachment trajectories of women in Britain and West Germany", ESPAnet Summer School, Milan, Italy.
July 2011, "The dynamics of single motherhood and work life histories of women in Britain and Germany" SOEP Brown Bag Seminar, DIW Berlin, Germany.
January 2011, "Single motherhood as life course experience" Contested Continuities PG Conference, Cardiff University, UK
July 2010, "Lone mothers, work and family life" Poster presentation, SPA Conference 2010, University of Lincoln, UK.
Other activities
Member of the Feminist and Gender Studies Reading Group ('Femjoy'), a postgraduate reading, research and peer-supervision group (School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh).
Member of the organising team for Researching Feminist Futures, a post-graduate symposium on 2-3/9/2011. http://researchingfeministfutures.wordpress.com
This page was published on 7 May 2012