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PD Dr. Oliver Winkler

Short CV

since 2025: Research Associate at "Evaluation of the Startchancen Programme   ", Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsverläufe

2024: Lecturer, Institute of Sociology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

since 2021: Head of the juinor research group "Educational Integration of Refugee Children and Youth in Germany" (EDIREG), funded by the Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

2020-2021: Research Associate at the Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (FGZ) in Halle

2017: Visiting Fellow at the Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail (LEST), Aix-en-Provence and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)

2016: PhD (Dr. phil.) at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
2016 -2019: Fellow at the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research    (CIDER)

2015-2018: Research Associate in the research project 'Choosing a University as Intensifier of Vertical Differentiation? Comparisons Between Germany and France   ', funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2010-2020: Research Associate at the Institute of Scoiology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of Prof. Dr. Reinhold Sackmann

2004-2010 Studies in Sociology at the University of Leipzig and UPMF Grenoble

Curriculum vitae (and all publications)

Recent publications

• Winkler, Oliver, Anne-Kathrin Carwehl (2025): Institutional Conditions and Acquisition of Destination Language Skills Among Young Refugees: Investigating the German Context. Acta Sociologica. DOI: 10.1177/00016993251351531   
  Pressemitteilung MLU Halle Wittenberg (12.08.2025) Mit Meldungen in (u.a.): FAZ   , Spiegel online   , WDR   , Deutschlandfunk   , MDR   , Tagesspiegel   , N-TV   , MZ   , Correctiv   . Audiobeitrag/Interview Deutschlandfunk (Campus & Karriere   ) und Radio 3 RBB   . Interview TAZ die Tageszeitung   
• Wicht, Alexandra, Oliver Winkler, Mona Granato, Alexandra Nonnenmacher (2025): The Role of Contexts in Educational and Employment Transitions and Pathways of Young People. Social Inclusion 13, 1-20. DOI: 10.17645/si.10698   
• Winkler, Oliver, Robin Busse, & Stefanie Findeisen (2025): Breaking Barriers? Social Inequality in Pathways to Higher Education Between General and Vocational Schools. Social Inclusion. DOI: 10.17645/si.9776   
• Olczyk, Melanie, Birgit Heppt, Oliver Winkler, Stefan Schipolowski,  Aileen Edele (2025): Academic achievement of refugee students at the end  of primary school in Germany. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. DOI: 10.1007/s11618-025-01315-1   
• Winkler, Oliver (2025): Ungleichheit und Raum. Wie Raum individuelle Bildungs- und Erwerbschancen strukturiert. Springer VS Wiesbaden. https://link.springer.com/book/9783658491857    (im Erscheinen)
• Meyer, Franziska & Winkler, Oliver: Refugee men  and women in the segmented VET market in Germany: On their career prospects and the role of resource inequality. Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training (accepted)

• Academic positions

Peer reviewer: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, Education Sciences, Sociology of Education

Chairman of the Sektion Bildung und Erziehung (DGS)   

Memberships: RC 28 Social Stratification and Mobility, DGS-Sektion Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse, DGS-Sektion Bildung und Erziehung, Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Zentrum für Schul- und Bildungsforschung (ZSB) at the Martin-Luther-University

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