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
Lectures (selections)
- 07/2019: “The so called refugee crises and the emergence of new forms of volunteering in Germany” auf ERNOP Conference in Basel, Schweiz.
- 04/2019: “Claims-Making in the Context of the “refugee crisis” – A German-Canadian Comparison at a local scale” at the Annual Meeting der American Education Research Association in Toronto, ON, Canada.
- 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, memory and organizations
- Qualitative empirical research
Research projects
- 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
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Since 2019: Scholarship holder of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation
- 2016-2019: Research Assistant at the Centre for Social Investment
- 2016-2017: Reserach Assistant at the Max-Weber Institut (Political Sociology - Prof. Dr. Kathia Serrano Velarde)
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.
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)