Björn Leitzen, M.A.

Areas of research

Social inequality, educational inequalities (higher education and doctoral studies), inequalities linked to social background, life course research

  • CV

    2018 – present
    Research associate in the Department of Methods of Empirical Social Research and Social Structure Analysis, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    2017 – 2020
    Research associate at the Leibniz Centre for Science and Society (LCSS), Leibniz University Hannover, project “Choice of degree programme: determinants, processes and social reproduction”

    2014–2016
    Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Leibniz University Hannover, Department of Sociology of Education

    2012–2014
    Student assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Leibniz University Hannover, Department of Methods of Empirical Social Research

  • Research

    Courses in previous semesters

    • Summer Semester 2025: Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research I (Group 2)
    • Winter 2024: Education and Social Inequality
    • Summer 2024: Applied Quantitative Data Analysis
    • Winter 2023: Education and Social Inequality
    • Summer 2023: Research Supervision
    • Summer 2022: Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research I (Group 2)
    • Winter 2021: Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research II (Group 1)
    • Summer 2021: Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research I (Group 2) and Applied Quantitative Data Analysis
    • Winter 2020: Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research II (Group 2) and Education and Social Inequality
    • Summer 2020: Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research I (Group 2)
    • Winter Semester 2019: Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research II (Group 1)
    • Summer Semester 2019: Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research I (Group 1)
    • Winter Semester 2018: Labour Market Outcomes of University Graduates II (teaching research in collaboration with Prof. Dr Kathrin Leuze, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
    • Summer Semester 2018: Colloquium for the presentation of research findings in the field of higher education and science research (colloquium within the Master’s programme in Science and Society in collaboration with Dr Nadja Bieletzki, Leibniz University Hannover)
    • Summer 2017 – Winter 2018: Decision-making processes and inequalities in the transition to higher education and during the course of study (research learning module in collaboration with Marten Wallis, Leibniz University Hannover)
  • Publications

    Articles in peer-reviewed journals

    Lörz, M., Seipelt, B. (2019). Herkunftsunterschiede in der Promotionsintention. Resultat kultureller Reproduktion, bildungsbiographischer Rahmenbedingungen oder individueller Entscheidung? Soziale Welt 70/2, 172-199. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0038-6073-2019-2/sozw-soziale-welt-jahrgang-70-2019-heft-2External link