04/15 – 09/18
Mini Graduate College on “Life in Transitions”. Young adults between continuity and discontinuity in education, career, and family.

Gutenberg Young Researchers College, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Financial Project Management: Univ. Prof. Heide von Felden, Univ. Prof. Marina Hennig, Univ. Prof. Peter Preisendörfer, Univ. Prof. Stefan Weyers

02 – 12/2015
Social Networks and Academic Careers. On the Influence of Social Relationships on Academic Careers

Center for Education and Higher Education Research, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
financial. Project managers: Prof. Marina Hennig and Dr. Uwe Schmidt
Project staff: Dr. Cathleen Stützer, Dipl. Soc. Lena Zimmer

05/2013 – 04/2014
“Network Newbies”. Springschool for a practice-oriented introduction to sociological network analysis combined with “Professional Workshops” for advanced students.

Funded as an innovative teaching project by the Gutenberg Teaching Council (GTC)

Project manager: Prof. Dr. Marina Hennig/ Prof. Dr. Christian Stegbauer (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
Project collaborator: Nadja Bozicek

Network research is a rapidly growing and dynamically developing methodological field, whose advantage and appeal lie in its interdisciplinary work within its research area. However, this relatively young research approach has significant catching up to do in German-speaking countries.

The course planned here stems from a collaboration between Goethe University (Frankfurt) and Gutenberg University (Mainz) and offers course offerings for beginners and advanced learners on the introduction and application of network analysis. The Newbie event is aimed at master’s students from the universities of Mainz and Frankfurt, doctoral candidates, and postdoctoral researchers who wish to learn about and apply network research.

This is a one-week intensive course where fundamental theoretical elements and practical applications are taught and practiced. The event is supplemented by an opportunity for participants to discuss their own projects. Additionally, evening lectures with network research experts are organized.

The knowledge acquired in the Springschool is to be deepened through “Professional Workshops” on more specific and in-depth analysis methods and applications. One and two-day workshops with experts are offered for this purpose

01/2010 – 02/2011
“Non-Employment of Women: Paths, Problems, Potentials”
Project Management: Prof. Jutta Allmendinger, PD Dr. Marina Hennig
Project staff: Dipl. Sowi. Stefan Stuth, Dipl. Pol. Mareike Ebach
Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth funded.

07/2011 – 08/2011
“Symposium on Dynamics of Family Change and Political Design in Germany”
Robert Bosch Foundation funded.
PD Dr. Marina Hennig together with Dr. Martin Bujard, Sophie Olbrich

02/2009 – 04/2011
“Attempt at an Empirical Reconstruction of Bourdieu’s Habitus and Field Theory through Network Analysis” (Own Position) DFG funded.
Project staff: Dipl. Sowi. Steffen Kohl

2007 – 2012
“The Analysis of Social Networks – A Practice-Oriented Textbook with Key Concepts and Practice Exercises for program of study and Overview”
International, transdisciplinary cooperation network with colleagues from the University of Konstanz (Prof. Dr. Ulrik Brandes, Computer Science), MPI Cologne (PD Dr. Lothar Krempel, Psychology), University of Hamburg (Junior Prof. Dr. Michael Schnegg, Cultural Anthropology), as well as Prof. Steve Borgatti from the Department of Management, Gatton College of Business at the University of Kentucky and Dr. Ines Mergel from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (Economics).
Project Management: PD Dr. Marina Hennig (self-acquired funding), DFG funded.
Grant for scientific networks

2008 – 2009
“Female Re-entrants: The Potential of Non-Employed Women for the job market”
Project Management: Prof. Jutta Allmendinger (WZB), PD Dr. Marina Hennig
Project staff: Dipl. Sowi. Stefan Stuth (WZB)
Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth funded.

04/2008 – 01/2009
“The second demographic transition: its socio-economic, cultural and regional causes. A multi-level model to explain the decline in birth rates in Germany since 1972”
(together with Prof. Dr. Hans Bertram), Fritz Thyssen Foundation

2005 – 2007
“Three Cities: Social Networks, Social Support, Family Forms, and Childcare in German Major Cities – A Replication of the Studies by Martin Irle and Elisabeth Pfeil from the 1960s”
together with Prof. Dr. Hans Bertram, DFG funded.

03/2005 – 08/2005
“Changes in Becoming an Adult and Family Formation in Europe and among Younger Birth Cohorts after 1967 in Germany and the Netherlands”
Preparation of the partial report for Germany: “Changes in Becoming an Adult and Family Formation in Germany” (self-acquired funding), Robert Bosch Foundation funded.

2002 – 2004
“Social networks, social support and lifestyles in major European cities”
together with Prof. Dr. Hans Bertram
Development of the questionnaire including the network survey instruments as well as organization and coordination of the survey in Berlin, Stuttgart and Hamburg, DFG funded

1993 – 1997
“Family Living Conditions of Children and Adolescents in East and West Germany – a Comparative Social Structure Analysis of Childhood”
under the direction of Prof. Dr. Hans Bertram and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nauck, Prof. Dr. Thomas Klein, DFG funded.
Preparation and evaluation of the datasets from the DJI Family Survey 1988, 1990, as well as additional surveys for Bavaria, Leipzig, and Thuringia (involved in the proposal submission for the last two funding phases)

1993 – 1997
Employee of the Commission for the Study of Social and Political Change in the New Federal States (KPSW). Responsible for the development of the KSPW regional database and the implementation and evaluation of the multi-topic survey 1996

04/2013-10/2016
Parental well-being in a German-Japanese comparison.

In cooperation with the German Department for Japanese Studies in Tokyo and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Focus of this research association: Comparative parental social relationships.