Verena Schmid, M.A.

Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie
Heidelberg University
Bergheimer Str. 58
69115 Heidelberg

Phone: +496221 54-11980
verena.schmid@csi.uni-heidelberg.de

Office Hours: LSF

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Lectures (selections)

• 09/2021: “Values and Political Attitudes of Local Refugee Aid ” at European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference.
• 11/2020: “Citizenship as Claims-making in Germany and Canada: How local Willkommenskultur avoids populist polarization ” at the Conference on "Populism and the social siences" from the University of Québec and Ottawa.
• 03/2019: “More or less political: Central developments of local engagement for refugees in Germany” at the ERASMUS Workshop “Understanding host society reception and integration of refugees” in Halifax, NS, Canada.
• 12/2018: “Knowledge transfer(s) in a comparative research project on media and refugee integration” at the second Integration-CAN-D Joint Research Workshop in Heidelberg, Germany.

Research focus

• Civil society and third sector research
• Sociology of knowledge and organizations
• Qualitative empirical research

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Research projects

• RUN – Rural Urban Nutrient Partnership

• Evaluation des Chancengleichheitsgesetz Baden-Württemberg

• Cross-sectional project "Civic Engagement And Trisectoral Governance" at the Real-World Laboratory "Asylum Seekers in the Rhine-Neckar-Region"

• Self-regulated learning strategies in volunteering organizations (pilot study)

• CrESSI - Creating Economic Space for social Innovation

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

• Since 2019: Scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation
• Since 2017: Doctoral student at the Max-Weber Institut (Titel: Civil Society Crisis Management: Location and Significance of Civil Society Action during the "Refugee Crisis")
• Since 2016: Research Assistant at the Centre for Social Investment
• 2016-2017: Reserach Assistant at the Max-Weber Institut (Political Sociology - Prof. Dr. Kathia Serrano Velarde)

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Publications:

• Schmid, Verena; Winter, Elke; Patzelt, Anke (2020): Mapping Public Responses to the “Refugee Crisis”: Who Claims what in Heidelberg and Ottawa/Gatineau?
  In: Korntheuer, A., Pritchard, P., Maehler, D. B., & Wilkinson, L. (Eds.). (2020). Refugees in Canada and Germany: From Research to Policies and Practice (GESIS-Schriftenreihe, 25). Köln: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, S. 99 – 119.
• Schmid, Verena; Evers, Adalbert; Mildenberger, Georg (2019): More or Less Political: Findings on a Central Feature of Local Engagement for Refugees in Germany. Social Inclusion, 7(2), 165-175.
• Kück, Svenja; Schmid, Verena (2019): Transdisziplinäre Forschung auf dem Prüfstand. Einblicke in den Arbeitsalltag des Reallabor Asyl. GAIA, 28(2), 172-173.
• Schmid, Verena; Evers, Adalbert; Mildenberger, Georg (2019): Mögliche Bedeutungen zivilgesellschaftlichen Handelns. Eine Untersuchung lokaler Unterstützungsbewegungen für Geflüchtete. In: Adalbert Evers (Hg.): Lokales Engagement für Geflüchtete: Konturen, Kontexte, Entwicklungen. Berlin: BBE Arbeitspapiere Nr.8., 20-28.
• Schmid, Verena (2018): Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen als Erinnerungsträger gesellschaftlicher Krisen. In: Oliver Dimbath, Anja Kinzler, Katinka Meyer (Hg.): Vergangene Vertrautheit. Soziale Gedächtnisse des Ankommens, Aufnehmens und Abweisens. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 93-116.
• Schmid, Verena; Kück, Svenja (2017): Access to Housing in Germany. In: Annette Krontheuer, Paul Pritchard, Débora B. Maehler (Hg.): Structural Context of Refugee Integration in Canada and Germany. Köln: GESIS (GESIS-Schriftenreihe, 15), 73–78.

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Conducted seminars

• Summer semester 2019
  Sociologists in practics: Sustainability assessments of the Heidelberg quarter Hasenleiser
• Winter semester 2017/18
  Discourse analysis as a method of empirical social research
• Winter semester 2016/17
  Qualitative methods: Case Study
• Summer semester 2016
  Volunteering in crisis?!
• Baden-Wuerttemberg Certificate for University Didactics (aquired 2018)