Grants

Heisenberg fellow

I have been awarded a fellowship in the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The program fully funds a professorship position for up to five years. (€ 700,400)

Research project

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has granted funding for a three-year research project on “Social networks and wellbeing: A mixed-methods study in an older community”. This project seeks to identify which kinds of social networks are associated with positive health outcomes in older adults. Methods comprise the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative panel data on the social networks of older adults within several social clubs. The project called Jeckenstudie is carried out from 2022 to 2024. (€ 516,274)

Conference funding

Funding by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation was granted for a conference on social network research at the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in 2019. (€ 8,500)