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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

• Christ, Alexander & Oliver Winkler (accepted). Are young refugees more likely to enter training places with vacancy problems? Comparisons between immigrant youths in Germany. International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET)
• Meyer, Franziska & Oliver Winkler (2025): Die Bedeutung sozialer Kontakte für den Übergang junger Geflüchteter in die Berufsausbildung. Berufsbildung: Zeitschrift für Theorie-Praxis-Dialog, 79(4). DOI: 10.3278/BB2504W   
• 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. DOI: 10.1186/s40461-025-00197-1   
• 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. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-49186-4   

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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