Prof. Dr Gundula Zoch has been appointed professor of Social Structure Analysis at the Institute for Social Sciences. Prior to this, she had held a junior professorship in the sociology of social inequalities there since 2021.
Zoch studied sociology and economics at the University of Leipzig. In 2018, she obtained her PhD as a fellow of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences at the University of Bamberg. She then worked as a research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg before moving to Oldenburg in 2021. She remains affiliated with the LIfBi as a Research Affiliate.
In her research, Zoch examines the emergence and consequences of social inequalities across the life course using large-scale longitudinal data. In various projects, she investigates which inequalities arise in the context of work and family life, and what effects these have on children’s development, political attitudes and social cohesion.
