Susanne Wahler was born in Schweinfurt, Germany, in 1985. She studied sociology at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg where she received her diploma degree in 2010. In her diploma thesis she studied different areas of conflict within stepfamilies, particularly with regard to the role of stepfathers.
From 2008 to 2009 she worked as a student assistant at the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg (ifb) where she took part in the project "Gesamtkonzept zur Familienbildung im Rahmen der Jugendhilfe in Bayern". She works as a research scientist and Ph.D. student in the "eduLIFE project" since April 2011.
Research Interests
Educational Sociology, Sociology of the Life Course, Cross-national Comparative Research and Family Research
Papers
- Bukodi, E., Eibl, F. in collaboration with Buchholz, S., Marzadro, S., Minello, A., Wahler, S., Blossfeld, H.-P., Erikson, R. & Schizzerotto, A. (2015). "Linking the Macro to the Micro: A Multidimensional Approach to Educational Inequalities in Four European Countries”. Barnett Papers in Social Research
Chapters in edited volumes
- Wahler, S., Buchholz, S. & Møllegaard Pedersen, S. (erscheint 2016). "Educational Inequalities in Tracked Danish Upper Secondary Education”. In: Blossfeld, H.‐P., Buchholz, S., Skopek, J. & Triventi, M. (Hg.), Secondary Education Models and Social Inequality: An International Comparison. Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar.
- Wahler, S., Buchholz, S. & Møllegaard Pedersen, S. (2015). "Youth Labor Market Entry in Denmark: A Gender‐Based Analysis of the First Significant Job”. In: Blossfeld, H.‐P., Skopek, J., Triventi, M. & Buchholz, S. (Hg.), Gender, Education and Employment. An International Comparison of School‐to‐Work Transitions. Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar, 203‐221.
- Wahler, S., Buchholz, S., Myrup Jensen, V. & Unfried, J. (2014). "Adult Learning in Denmark: Patterns of Participation in Adult Learning and Its Impact on Individuals’ Labor Market Outcomes”. In: Blossfeld, H.‐P., Kilpi‐Jakonen, E., Vono de Vilhena, D. & Buchholz, S. (Hg.), Adult Learning in Modern Societies. An International Comparison from a Life‐Course Perspective. Cheltenham/Northampton: Edward Elgar, 223‐241.
Selected presentations
- Wahler, Susanne, Sandra Buchholz and Stine Møllegaard Pedersen (2015) Educational Inequalities in Tracked Danish Upper Secondary Education. SGS-SSS Conference 2015: (Persistent) Inequalities Reconsidered: Education and Social Mobility. July 2015, Ascona, Switzerland.