Prof. Dr. Daniela Grunow Sociology of Social Change Faculty of Social Sciences Goethe-University Robert-Mayer-Str. 5, Room 1627 60054 Frankfurt am Main email: grunow[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Daniela Grunow is the director and principal investigator of the APPARENT project. Since January 2013 she is a Full Professor of Sociology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Daniela received her Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg (Germany) in 2006. From 2006-2008 Daniela was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University (CT, USA). Before joining the Goethe-University Daniela had been a faculty member at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (NL), 2008-2012. As the director and principal investigator of the APPARENT project she coordinates the cross-national cooperation with researchers in seven European countries, collects original data on parental roles, norms and identities, and engages in comparative research within the APPARENT subprojects. download CV

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Katia Begall, Postdoctoral researcher Sociology of Social Change Faculty of Social Sciences Goethe-University Robert-Mayer-Str. 5 60054 Frankfurt am Main email: begall[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Katia Begall is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology which she obtained from the University of Groningen in 2012. In her dissertation research, Katia studied the effect of working conditions and occupations on fertility. Katia’s research interests include fertility and family formation, the division of paid and unpaid labor within households, cross-national comparative research and quantitative methods.

As a postdoctoral researcher in the APPARENT project, Katia will focus on the career consequences of gendered patterns of employment interruption and part-time work and associations between national context and gender roles in comparative perspective.

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Kristina John, PhD candidate Sociology of Social Change Faculty of Social Sciences Goethe-University Robert-Mayer-Str. 5, 60054 Frankfurt am Main email: john[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Kristina John is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She studied Social Sciences (including Sociology, Statistics, Political Science, Social Psychology and Industrial Organizational Psychology) at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and at the bilingual University of Ottawa (Canada) financed by the OBW-scholarship. In her diploma-thesis she developed a typology for gender policy regimes. She was a Teaching Assistant at the Chair for Empirical Methods (University of Mannheim) where she taught four courses in STATA, SPSS, Amos and Statistics. In 2009 she was a Research Assistant at the MZES (Mannheim). From 2008 - 2009 she was a Research Assistant at the University of Ottawa comparing citizenship policies. Before, she was a Research Assistant for almost three years at the German Microdata Lab (GESIS). Her research interests include qualitative and quantitative methods, comparative sociology and gender studies. As a junior researcher in the APPARENT project she will extract the (political) discourse and norms about father-and motherhood from mainstream media from the 1980s to 2010 across several European countries. download CV

Maria Reimann, PhD candidate Sociology of Social Change Faculty of Social Sciences Goethe-University Robert-Mayer-Str. 5 60054 Frankfurt am Main email: reimann[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Maria Reimann is a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She studied ethnography and cultural anthropology at the University of Warsaw and the University of Copenhagen (ERASMUS scholarship). She defended her MA thesis “The good stepfather. A father figure or a friend?” at the University of Warsaw in February 2011. Maria’s main research interests include kinship and family, parenthood, medical anthropology, institutions and human agency, and qualitative methods. As a junior researcher in the APPARENT project, she will conduct in-depth interviews with Polish couples at the life course transition to parenthood. She will then compare the data with the data from other European countries of the project, focusing on the norms and practises of parenting and the gender division of labour. download CV

Gerlieke Veltkamp, Junior Researcher Sociology of Social Change Faculty of Social Sciences Goethe-University Robert-Mayer-Str. 5 60054 Frankfurt am Main email: veltkamp[at]soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Gerlieke Veltkamp is a junior researcher at the University of Amsterdam. She recently graduated cum laude as a Research Master student Social Sciences. Her thesis focused on Dutch professionals constructing knowledge of parents in a context of risk. Gerlieke works as an editor for the ‘Sociologie Magazine’ and is furthermore employed in the forensic youth psychiatry sector in Amsterdam, where she is involved in benchmarking and policy writing. Previously, she was educated as a family therapist and she worked with youth and families with psychosocial problems in a forensic setting. As a junior researcher in the APPARENT project, Gerlieke will focus on family professionals’ perceptions of new parents’ roles and how parenting roles are negotiated, reproduced and shaped in expert-parent interactions in different European countries. download CV