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Dr. Lisa Gromala

Kurzvita

• Since 2025, research assistant to take over the teaching duties of the professorship for “Sociology of Education” at the Institute of Sociology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• SoSe 2025 Representation of the W2 professorship for sociology with a focus on socialization and education at the Institute for Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen
• 2017 - 2025 Research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen
• 2024 Erasmus short-term lectureship at the Universidad de Granada, Spain
• Summer semester 2021 + Summer semester 2022 External lecturer at the Department of Educational Research at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• 2018 doctorate as Dr. rer. soc. at the Department of Social and Cultural Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen
• 2013 - 2016 Research assistant at the Institute of Sociology at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen in two joint interdisciplinary BMBF projects investigating 'The role of school inspections as a regulatory impetus for educational development and the practical conditions affecting its implementation at different educational institutions' and the follow-up project 'Functions of school inspection. Knowledge generation, knowledge-based school development and legitimation'
• 2005 - 2010 studied sociology, psychology as well as German linguistics and literature of the Middle Ages at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest, France)

Forschungsprofil

• Educational Sociology
• Profession and socialization: researcher biographies, methodological socialization and professionalization
• Organizational sociology: Educational organizations such as universities, schools, extracurricular learning places
• (Educational) policy and (educational) governance: Education-related multi-level systems such as universities, schools, species protection and environmental education
• Methods of empirical (especially qualitative) social research

Die fünf letzten Publikationen

Gromala, L. (2024). Quality from a field theoretical perspective. In: T. Betz, T. Feldhoff, P. Bauer, U. Schmidt & B. Schmidt-Hertha (eds.) Handbook of quality in educational fields. Discourses. Theoretical foundations. Empirical contributions. Critical objections. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40471-0_51-1   

Gromala, L. (2023). Polarized world of wildlife conservation. Zoological gardens between criticism and ecological integration. In: P.-I. Villa (ed.), Polarized Worlds. Proceedings of the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Society in Bielefeld 2022. https://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2022/article/view/1717/1888   

Gromala, L. (2022). Individualization in schools in the area of interaction, organization and society. In: Röhrig, M., Kron, T., Nehl, Y. & Naglik, F. (eds.), Individualization and schools (pp. 58-67). Weinheim: Beltz.

Brüsemeister, T. & Gromala, L. (2020). Constellations between school management and school supervision. In: E. D. Klein & N. Bremm (eds.), Support - Cooperation - Control. On the relationship between school supervision and school management in school development (pp. 125-135). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Gromala, L. (2019). Schools' struggles for self-assertion. An analysis with Pierre Bourdieu and grounded theory. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen

• Lecture: Introduction to the sociology of education, BA Sociology
• Seminar: Education/Upbringing and Society – Perspectives in the Sociology of Education, MA Sociology

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