Lina Sofie Schöne, M.A.

research assistant

Areas of work and interest

  • social inequality, media inequality
  • volunteering and (political) engagement
  • sociology of the welfare state
  • infrastructures
  • neoliberalism
  • theories of democracy and the state
  • socio-ecological transformation
  • fiscal and financial policy
  • Curriculum vitae

    Since January 2025                                                                                                                                               Research Associate on the research project ‘Behind the Scenes of Volunteering: Work and Social Reproduction at the Intersection of Necessity and Privilege’ (Project leaders: Prof. Dr Silke van Dyk and PD Dr Stefanie Graefe) within the DFG Research Group ‘Volunteering’

    October 2023 to  February 2024                                                                                                                          Tutor in the field of political sociology for the lecture series “Key Issues in Sociology” (under Prof. Dr Silke van Dyk)

    August 2023 to November 2024                                                                                                                  Research assistant on the “K3I-Cycling” research project at Harz University of Applied Sciences (under Prof. Dr Alena Bleicher)

    April 2023 to December 2023                                                                                                                       Research Assistant on the research project ‘Just Transition: An International Comparison of Activities’ at the University of Leeds in the UK (under Prof. Dr Vera Trappmann)

    January 2023 to May 2023                                                                                                                                   Study abroad at the University of Turku in Finland

    July 2022 to September 2022                                                                                                                       Research assistant in the research project ‘Just Transition: An International Comparison of Activities’ at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (under Prof. Dr. Dennis Eversberg)

    October 2021 to October 2024                                                                                                                      Master’s degree in Sociology at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

    January 2020 to June 2020                                                                                                                                 Study abroad at Uppsala University in Sweden

    October 2017 to August 2021                                                                                                                       Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Social Sciences at Georg August University of Göttingen, specialising in Sociology, Political Science and Economics