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12.2025RISS congratulates Susanne Garritzmann on winning the ALLBUS award 2025 together with her co-author Nadja Wehl for the paper “How Education Policies Shape Political Inequality: Analyzing Policy Feedback Effects in Germany” published in Comparative Political Studies in 2024. The prize awards high quality papers with original methodological or theoretical contribution applying sophisticated statistical methods.
10.2025The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the second funding phase for the RISS research group. Including seven projects, the second funding phase will start beginning of 2026 and run for four years. Find more information here (in German).
24.-25.07.2025RISS Concluding Workshop of the First Funding Phase at Goethe University Frankfurt, celebrating the successful first funding phase. We discussed primary research findings with international guests from the SOFI Institute at Stockholm University, Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Copenhagen, University of Turin, Gutenberg University Mainz, University of Konstanz, University of Cologne, TU Chemnitz, University of Bamberg, University of Tübingen and University Duisburg-Essen. You can download the program here.
07.2025A short report on first research findings is available in German now! Download it here.
06.2025RISS congratulates Max Jansen on receiving an RC28 Travel Award in recognition of his outstanding scholarship in the field of social stratification. The award will subsidize his participation in the Summer Meeting of the Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), which will take place at the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, in August 2025.
20.03.2025Keynote lecture: "‚Gender Attitudes' messen und verstehen. Rekonfiguration und Internalisierung von Sozialstruktur im Spannungsfeld von Erwerbs- und Sorgearbeit" (Measuring and understanding 'gender attitudes'. Reconfiguration and internalisation of social structure between employment and care work) at the spring conference of the Section for the Sociology of the Family of the German Sociological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS) held at the Institute for Employment Research (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung, IAB), Nürnberg, 20.-21. March 2025. (Daniela Grunow)
04.02.2025The technical report and the codebooks of the RISS Internalization Survey are available on OSF now! Check it out here. RISS is delighted to have reached this milestone.
27.01.2025Presentation of research findings entitled "Academic self-efficacy and social origin. Differences at the individual, group and system level" (Akademische Selbstwirksamkeit und soziale Herkunft. Unterschiede auf individueller, Gruppen- und Systemebene) at the Twelfth Conference of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung, GEBF), (Max P. Jansen), Mannheim, Germany.
01.2025RISS congratulates Ines Schäfer for her single-authored publication “Groups of Individual Attitudes Towards Cultural Issues in Europe: A Unidimensional Conflict?" in Political Studies Review. You can find her paper here.
06.01.2025RISS congratulates the team of RISS Project 4 (The role of internalised efficacy beliefs for participation in education and politics) on receiving approval from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a follow-up survey of the RISS Youth Sample following the upcoming 2025 German federal elections. After the team conducted an additional survey last year in response to the lowering of the voting age for the European elections to sixteen years, the new funding approval will facilitate a unique panel dataset. Congratulations!
01.01.2025
RISS is thrilled to welcome Jonathan Gruhler as new RISS team member! Jonathan is working as a postdoc in Project 3 on Intergenerational Transmission of Work-Family Trajectories in Germany. See his profile here.
28.-29.11.2024Presentation of research findings entitled “The Price of Not-Belonging. Unraveling the Nexus between the Impostor Phenomenon, Perceived Discrimination and Workplace Attachment"at the Sixth Joint Doctoral Conference, (Max P. Jansen), Trento, Italy.
Max won the Best Poster Award at the conference. Congratulations! You can find his amazing poster here
11.2024RISS congratulates Max Jansen for his single-authored publication “Impostor Phenomenon Short Scale (IPSS-3). A Novel Measure to Capture Impostor Feelings in Large-scale and Longitudinal Surveys“ in Frontiers in Psychology. You can find his paper here.
25.09.2024Invited lecture: "Multidimensionality of socio-structural change". Speaker Series, Trinity College, Dublin. (Daniela Grunow)
12.-14.09.2024Presentation of research findings from RISS Family Conjoint entitled “Multidimensionality of gender ideologies and their socio-structural determinants: A factorial survey approach" at the European Consortium for Sociological Research 2024 Conference in Barcelona, Spain (Taylan Acar). 
04.-06.09.2024Presentation of research findings entitled "Echoes of Doubt. The Impostor Phenomenon as an Internalized Barrier for Educational Advancement" based on RISS survey data at the 31st Annual Workshop “TRANSITIONS IN YOUTH" (TIY), (Max P. Jansen), Warsaw, Poland.
27.-30.08.2024Presentation of research findings entitled "Echoes of Doubt: Unraveling the Sociological Relevance of the Impostor Phenomenon" based on RISS survey data at the 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA) "Tension, Trust and Transformation", (Max P. Jansen), Porto, Portugal.
15.07.2024 Workshop on Latent Class Analysis for advanced users with Dr. Katia Begall (Assistant Professor in Sociology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
04.-06.07.2024Presentation of research on the role of religious leaders in shaping cohesion related attitudes among immigrants in Germany which analyzes the experimental component of the RISS data at the 14th annual conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA) in Cologne (Osman Suntay). 
04.-06.07.2024Presentation of research examining the  effect of extremist violence on religious identification among Muslim immigrants in Germany, based on  experimental part of the RISS data, at the 14th annual conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA) in Cologne (Constantin Ruhe), 4.-6. July 2024.
06.-07.06.2024Presentation of pre-analysis plan for research on the reciprocal association between turnout and efficacy beliefs using the RISS youth sample at DVPW working group on “Elections and political attitudes", University of Siegen, 6 - 7 June, 2025 (Project 4, RISS Efficacy Team).
14.05.2024 Presentation of the RISS survey design and conjoint experiments at questionnaire design workshop of the ADOMiS project, (Yassine Khoudja), Humboldt University Berlin.
05.2024RISS congratulates Osman Suntay for his single-authored publication “Government Religious Discrimination, Support of Religion, and Muslim Minority-Related Societal Violence in Western Democracies“ in Comparative Political Studies. You can find his paper here.
05.2024Change of co-spokesperson in May 2024: Yassine Khoudja succeeds Richard Traunmüller, Richard continues his work as PI in RISS. We thank Richard for his great contributions as co-speaker and congratulate Yassine on this promotion!  
04.2024 RISS Internal Workshop on preliminary results and plans for the second funding phase.
25.-26.04.2024Presentation of the RISS Internalization Survey at IMISCOE 3rd annual Meth@Mig workshop (Yassine Khoudja), GESIS Mannheim.
18-21.03.2024 Presentation of research findings entitled "Echoes of Doubt. The Impostor Phenomenon as an Internalized Barrier for Educational Advancements" based on RISS survey data at the Joint Spring School on "The Analysis of Social and Educational Inequalities" of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, the Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies, and the European Consortium of Sociological Research (ECSR), (Max P. Jansen), Turin, Italy. 
03.2024Presentation of RISS gender conjoint experiment on EVS (European Values Study) methods workshop (Daniela Grunow), Skopje.
02.2024RISS Internal Workshop on RISS Internalization Survey: data management and discussion of work in progress/ preliminary research output. 
12.2023RISS congratulates Daniela Grunow and Richard Traunmüller as editors on the publication of their joint special issue on social integration! December 2023, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11577-023-00896-1  
09.2023-02.2024 Field phase Internalization Survey: November 2023 – February 2024. The data collection process successfully terminated! For more information on the survey, see section RISS Internalization Data.    
09.2023 Presentation of research findings, “Like father, like son? Fathers' and sons' education-work-family trajectories upon the German reunification." (Subin Chang). LIVES International Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.

08.2023 New data manager: Ines Schäfer takes over Mirjam Fischers tasks; Mirjam Fischer continues in RISS as research advisor and successfully starts own research project, funded by the Berlin University Alliance as guest professor at Humboldt University Berlin. 
05.2023RISS Internal Workshop on RISS Internalization Survey questionnaire harmonization and finalization.
05.2023Research presentation on the “Reconfiguration of the German Social Structure" at the RC 28 in Paris (Yassine Khoudja)
04.2023  Research presentation from guest Prof. Dr. Tomás Cano, “Sequence Analysis for the Study of Life Course Trajectories & Intergenerational Transmission“ at the Goethe University.
03.2023 Resarch presentation on the “Reconfiguration of the German Social Structure" at the spring meeting of the DGS-Section “Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanalyse" (Yassine Khoudja).
02.2023RISS Internal Workshop on RISS Internalization Survey questionnaire design.
2022-2023Course offered at undergraduate level based on the RISS project 3, “Effects of Parents and Siblings on Work and Family," Winter Semester 2022-2023 and Summer Semester 2023, co-taught from Subin Chang and Heather Hofmeister. 
02.09.2022
Invited short talk at the Waldkunstkonferenz of the Schader-Stiftung (Yassine Khoudja) on multidimensional social change and the climate crisis.
12.07.2022RISS Vignette Experiment Workshop, led by Richard Traunmüller and Alexander Schmidt-Catran of RISS, to discuss and inform the project-specific development of attitudinal and identity-based survey questions and vignettes for the RISS Internalization Survey.
06.2022Paper presentation on “The dynamic interplay between changing macro-level work-family norms and micro-level gendered parental behaviors in Eastern and Western Germany, 1991-2016." (Heather Hofmeister and Constance Hsiung). Work-Family Researchers' Network Conference, NYC. 
31.05.2022Workshop on survey instruments of nationalism, patriotism and national identity with Marlene Mußotter, University of Passau, Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Sciences. 
08.03.2022 Workshop on household survey design: Sampling household members 03.-04.03.2022 International workshop  on questionnaire-design and fieldwork with external cooperation partners: Annelies Blom, Prof. of Data Science,      University of Mannheim Carina Cornesse, Chair of Data Science, University of Mannheim Fenella Fleischmann,      Associate Professor, European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER),Utrecht   University Heinz Leitgoeb, Dr. Akad.Rat, Empirical Social Research, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Lucinda Platt, Professor of Social Policy and Sociology in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
15.02.2022 
Public presentation by Lusine Grigoryan, Postdoctoral research fellow at the department of social psychology,     Ruhr University Bochum, on “Hierarchies of prejudice: Why some groups evoke more prejudice than others?"
04.02.2022Workshop on questionnaire development  
26.10.2021Workshop on the social psychological aspects of identity formation and Public Presentation by Tatiana                    Lau, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London and affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, on “Discovering social group via latent structure learning"