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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

‪ℹ🎓Offene Stellen: wiss. Mitarbeiter 1x (100%) + 1x (75%) #Soziologie, digitale und verwandte Sozialwissenschaften am in Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe "Grenzzonen der #Akademisierung" am ZSB/ Institut f. Soziologie an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg ℹ️: www.zsb.uni-halle.de/forschungspr...

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Grenzzonen der Akademisierung

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Academization: How #Universities Transform Occupations and Work in the 21th Century For the @ecpr.bsky.social blog "Knowledge of Europe", David Baker, Manfred Stock and me have summed up our recent work on the effects of HE expansion era.ideasoneurope.eu/2025/05/16/a... #HigherEducation

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Academization: How Universities Transform Occupations and Work in the 21th Century

Manfred Stock, Alexander Mitterle and David P. Baker What do universities teach us? A common trope in public discourse today is that the university serves as

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🆕🔥 "Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap" w/ @profdaviddorn.bsky.social, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher & Lisa Simon 🔗 www.ifo.de/sites/defaul... 🚀Skills from 9M LinkedIn profiles explain important labor-market patterns! 1/🧵

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Christine Neubert @neubert.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

www.zeit.de/zeit-wissen/... „Es gibt auch einen soziologischen Blick auf die Baustelle …“ Jawohl, der „erste Anstieg“ ist genommen, weiteres folgt im DFG Projekt „Soziologie der Baustelle“

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Straßensanierung: Das Geheimnis von guten Baustellen

Wenn Straßen und Schienen saniert werden, gibt es Staus und Umwege. Das nervt. Über die Wissenschaft von Baustellen und was die Deutsche Bahn jetzt dazugelernt hat.

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Carola Westermeier @c-westermeier.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Pleased to share that I will be joining @mpifg.bsky.social as Lise-Meitner-Research-Group Leader. Truly excited to be leading a group on Technology and Sovereignty in this exceptional environment and to engage with its remarkable academic community. PhD call out—pls share! shorturl.at/0K7PW

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Doctoral Positions Technology and Sovereignty Research Group

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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

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Job Openings

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

" for many programs, there is no historical chance of securing a TT job at all." Merit vs. social closure. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Where You Earn Your PhD Matters | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Where You Earn Your PhD Matters

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 30/01/2025

„Jenseits geltenden Rechts“ Warum der gestern mit Stimmen der AfD verabschiedete Entschließungsantrag nicht nur auf Kosten einer historisch gewichtigen Grundhaltung zustande kam, sondern sich auch über geltendes Recht erhebt, zeigt WINFRIED KLUTH: verfassungsblog.de/funf-punkte-...

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Students in Serbia are at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, which have brought higher education—and the whole country—to a halt. I wrote a text explaining what it is all about, please read & share, thank you! 🤝 #students #highered #Serbia

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Inside the student blockades in Serbia

Over the past two months, students in Serbia have been at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, bringing higher education in the country to a standstill. The protests hav...

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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Over the past two months, students in #Serbia have been at the forefront of nationwide protests and institutional occupations, bringing higher education in the country to a standstill. Now, they're bringing the entire country to a standstill.

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A̴̙̅Ǩ̸̫A̵̭̍ ̵̖̃F̴̛͈ȧ̸͙b̶̦́ï̵͙a̵̜̾n̸̰͠ ̸̘̾M̷̟͠u̴͉̇n̷̥͝i̷̻͆e̸̮̾ŝ̵̲a̴̹͌ @provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"Contemporary conspiratorial, millennialist discourse on money, banking and wealth does not embody a delirious misrepresentation of the logic of finance: rather, it exacerbates the paranoid potentials inherent in mainstream financial imagination." www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Class consciousness still shapes voting, but in a different way than in the past. That's the key finding of a study with @thomaslux.bsky.social now out in English. We chart how class identity, interests and status link with voting for the left and right in Germany. A🧵 library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

Cover of the publication "Class consciousness and voting. Class as a political compass?" by Linus Westheuser and Thomas Lux, published by Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The cover illustration shows a stylized female worker flexing her muscles.

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100% Tempelhofer Feld e.V. #thfbleibt #noafd @thf100.de · 09/01/2025

++BITTE TEILEN++ SPD und CDU arbeiten unter Hochdruck daran, das Tempelhofer Feld zu bebauen. Willst du helfen, es zu retten? Dann komm zu unserem Teamtag mit Onboarding diesen Samstag, 11.01., 10-14:00 in der Potse, Zollgarage im Flughafengebäude Tempelhof! Das Tempelhofer Feld braucht dich!

Grafik: ein paar Leute geben sich High Five, dahinter der Text:
Einladung zu unserem Teamtag, Samstag, 11.01., 10-14:00 in der Potse, in der Zollgarage im Flughafengebäude Tempelhof

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

"how do universities die?" There are still paper presentation slots for our panel on #resilience, adaptability, death and afterlife of #universities at the #ECPR in Thessaloniki (26-29. Aug.) available. Deadline for brief abstracts: 05.01.25. DM for further details. ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Das Tempelhofer Feld steht in akuter Gefahr durch den aktuellen Berliner Senat, bebaut zu werden. Das darf nicht geschehen. Zeichnet wie ich diese Petition!

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Jonathan Tummons @jonathantummons.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Join us for the 2025 Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, 8-10 September 2025 at New College Oxford. Message/email me any questions! Once again we will link with the Ethnography and Education journal for publication. Updates via ethnographyandeducation.org #AcademicSky #EducationResearch

Call for Papers
Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference
Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025

We look forward to a continuing stream of international discussion that focuses on educational contexts and issues through ethnographic approaches. The conference will be held again at New College Oxford and is planned as an entirely in-person event.

We always have a large representation from outside the UK and we hope this will continue. As many of you know, we publish a journal, Ethnography and Education, for which papers from the Oxford Ethnography Conference provide a rich resource.

Conference registration costs – not including accommodation – are as follows:
• Early Bird Registration – register and pay by Friday 16th May 2025.
Academic Staff - £385
PhD Students - £250
• Full Registration (from 17th May 2025 onwards)
Academic Staff - £435
PhD Students - £300
• A reduction of 1/3 applied to the full fees is available for academics and students from universities situated in the global south.
Academic Staff - £145
PhD students - £100

Fee concessions are available for delegates from universities based in the global south (for which we align with the BISA list of countries). Proof of institutional status will be required (e.g. email account). Please note that while the conference is able to provide invitation letters, we are not able to support with visa applications or travel arrangements which are the responsibility of the delegate.

The registration fee includes tea and coffee on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday. Breakfast will only be included if you book accommodation in New College. Accommodation at New College will appear on the conference booking website.

Please note: refunds are only at the discretion of the conference committee.

Abstracts should be sent as a word document on an email attachment using the template at the bottom of this email to
Jonathan Tummons (jonathan.tummons@durham.ac.uk)
by Friday 28th February 2025.

Authors will be notified of the outcome by Friday 28th March.

Working papers of between 3,000 and 7,000 words are to be submitted by Monday 11th August 2025.

Registration for the conference will close on Friday 22nd August 2025.

Booking will open in late April. Accommodation at New College will be advertised online in April.

We look forward to inviting you to Oxford!
The 2025 conference team:

Ruth Barley, Sheffield Hallam University, UK (r.barley@shu.ac.uk)
Abi Chakravarty, Oxford University, (abismrita.chakravarty@education.ox.ac.uk)
Shari Sabeti, University of Edinburgh (shari.sabeti@ed.ac.uk)
Jonathan Tummons, Durham University (jonathan.tummons@durham.ac.uk)
Ruth Unsworth, University of York St John (r.unsworth@yorksj.ac.uk)
Begoña Vigo Arrazola, University of Zaragoza (mbvigo@unizar.es)

Please submit your abstract in MS Word format only using the following headings

OEEC 2024 Abstract

• Name(s) of all author(s) with institution(s):

• Email address of corresponding author:
[Please indicate if you are happy for us to keep your email contact address for future correspondence:
YES – add my email to the conference mailing list
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• Working title of paper
[please indicate whether it is primarily an empirical, theoretical or methodological paper]

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

We need to talk much more about Michel Callon's work - also beyond market agencements.

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Great comparative work on the merits of the schooled society!

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Our SI "How do universities compete?" in Studies in Higher Education has been published. It critically reflects on the central role of competition for higher education and provides context-sensitive analytical frames that reach beyond the common market-narrative. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cshe20/4...

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Studies in Higher Education

How do universities compete?. Volume 49, Issue 10 of Studies in Higher Education

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Carlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Die zweite Auflage ist da – genauso kompakt wie die erste.

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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Are Studies of Valuation and Evaluation 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜̈𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔? In our contribution to the Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society - hot off the press! -, Stefan Beljean and I discuss whether social inequality is a neglected topic in Studies of Valuation and Evaluation.

Screenshot of the first page of the contribution, showing title, authors' names and running text.

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Roland and I wrote a conceptual paper comparing market and field competition in higher education. It is part of a special issue edited together with Tim Seidenschnur and really thought-provoking contributions. Will discuss in detail once the whole Volume is out. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Beyond markets. On field competition in higher education

Competition today has become a central policy imperative in higher education. Connected to resource efficiency and scarcity, it remains closely attached to the idea of the market but reaches beyond...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

That's me and my friends!

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

I had a wonderful time at the #multiplecompetions conference at INCHER Kassel; not least because I had the chance to discuss holistic university embodiment from Martin Luther's Leipzig disputatio to the contemporary Financial Times Ranking.

presenter standing in front of PPT-slides on embodiment in HE

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Julia Böcker @flamboyanti.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

endlich ist dieses hervorragende buch von Lena Dreier zur (biographisch gestützten) institutionalisierung der islamischen theologie in deutschland erschienen 🤩

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Our new book on #academization & "how universities transform work" edited with David P. Baker (PennState) & Manfred Stock (Halle) is out now. Applying case studies, scholars from GER & US analyze how distinct fields of study co-construct jobs and #occupations books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/...

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How Universities Transform Occupations and Work in the 21st Century

Presented here is ground-breaking comparative research on an underappreciated, yet growing, concurrent alternative process: universities and their expanding research capacity create knowledge and skil...

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Alexander Mitterle @alexmitterle.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Das "Darknet" des deutschen #Privathochschulwesen. Es gibt einige solcher Einrichtungen, die über Kooperationen oder europ. Drittländer fragwürdige Studienangebote anbieten. Gut das hier recherchiert wird. #Hochschulen www.vice.com/de/article/7...

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 28/10/2023

Oh, and a bonus chart that I think will fry a lot of people’s brains and break a lot of narratives: For all the talk of six figure costs of college in the States, here’s how much debt graduates leave university with in the UK and US vs other countries

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