Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak
Head of Consensus & Conflict Department Consensus and Conflict Department
E-mail: zajak(at)dezim-institut.de fon: 0049 (0) 30-200754-400 // Assistenz: -145Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak is head of the department Consensus & Conflict. She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum. In the department she supervises numerous projects in the field of political participation, diversity and discrimination, conflict and civil society research. At the Ruhr-University she was engaged in research on civil society participation and mobilization in national and international contexts and led, among others, the junior research group on transnational civil society alliances. Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak is also a founding member of the Institute for Protest and Movement Research (ipb) and Vice President of the Research Committee 47 "Social Movements and Social Classes" of the International Sociology Association (ISA). Previously, she worked at the Humboldt University Berlin, the Research Center for Civic Engagement, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Cologne, and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Research Group "Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilization in Europe".
Prof. Dr. Sabrina Zajak completed numerous visiting fellowships at various research institutions in Germany and abroad (City University Hong Kong; Mahidol University Bangkok; Harvard University, Department of Sociology, Cambridge; Forum for Civil Society and Social Movement Research (CSM), University of Gothenburg) and was Directeurs d'Études Associés of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris in 2019/2020. She (co-)edited several special issues (Development and Change 2017; Industrial Relations 2018; Social Movement Studies 2021; Competition and Change 2020; Moving the Social 2020; European Cultural and Political Sociology 2022).
Research focus
- Political sociology
- civil society participation and mobilization in national and transnational contexts
- Consensus research
- Civil society engagement
- Refugee assistance
- Alliances and soc. network building; everyday practices of solidarity
- Conflict research
- Protest and movement research
- Diversity and discrimination research