Gerlinde Malli
Gerlinde Malli worked as research asistent at the Department of Sociology from 04.2012 to 09.2014.
She studied sociology and cultural anthropology at the University of Graz. Between 2000 and 2003, she was a research assistant in the research project "Was das Leben schwer macht" ("What Makes Life Difficult") led by Elisabeth Katschnig-Fasch, the research results of which were published in 2003 under the title "Das ganz alltägliche Elend. Encounters in the Shadow of Neoliberalism" (Vienna). The book was awarded the Bruno Kraisky Recognition Prize. Between 2003 and 2005 Gerlinde Malli was involved as a research assistant in various research projects of the Büro für Sozialforschung (H.G. Zilian) and the Institut Peripherie (Graz).
As part of her dissertation project (2005-2008), which was funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and supervised by an international team of scholars, Gerlinde Malli completed research stays at the sociological institutes in Basel and Geneva. Her dissertation was published in 2010 under the title "Sie müssen nur wollen. Youth at Risk in Institutional Settings" published by UVK-Verlag (Fondation Bourdieu).
Since April 2012, Gerlinde Malli worked as a postdoc researcher in the FWF project "After Bologna: Gender Studies in the Entrepreneurial University", which was led by Angelika Wetterer and conducted in cooperation with the ZIFG of the TU Berlin (Sabine Hark). Previously, she was a research associate at the Institute for Health Promotion and Prevention in Graz (2008-2012).
Gerlinde Malli has been a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and the Department of Cultural Anthropology since 2007 and is involved in the editorial board of the cultural studies journal "Kuckuck. Notizen zur Alltagskultur". As part of her academic activities at the university, she organized various events, including the research colloquium "Interdisciplinarity in Gender Studies" (2013) as part of the university research focus "Heterogeneity and Cohesion" (Cluster "Gender").
Her main areas of research and teaching are: gender sociology of science and higher education, qualitative methods, social exclusion and precarity, urban and youth research.