Dr. Jan Scharf

Projects

• ABIBA | Meta – Overcoming Educational Barriers: Learning Environments, Educational Success and Social Participation
• Berlin Longitudinal Reading Study (LESEN 3 – 6)
• Educational choices and educational pathways within the context of structural changes in Berlin’s secondary school system (BERLIN study)
• Individual Developmental Trajectories and Institutional Contexts Across the Lifespan
• MILES-HuGS – Primary and Secondary Social Background Effects at Different Points of Transition in the Education System

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Since 09/2024
Head of the Unit Educational Inequalities and Reducing Educational Barriers

08/2021 – 06/2026
Coordinator of the Project ABIBA | Meta

2019 – 2023
Fellow at the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER)

Since 03/2019
Research Associate in the Department of Educational Governance at DIPF

2018
Doctorate in Sociology, University of Luxembourg

09/2017 – 11/2017
Research stay at Tallinn University, Estonia (Institute of International Social Studies)

2015 – 2018
Research Associate, PhD candidate, University of Luxembourg (Institute of Education and Society, Project SASAL)

2013 – 2015
Research Associate, University of Luxembourg (Youth Research)

2010 – 2013
Research Associate, Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen (LSKN)

2010
Diploma in Social Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover

Research Interests

• Sociology of education and educational inequality
• Primary and secondary effects
• Overcoming educational barriers
• School contexts, values of education and school alienation
• Migration and youth studies