Dr. Silke Röbenack

Institute of Sociology
Chair of Sociology with the main focus on technology – labour – society
Fürther Str. 246 c, Nuremberg Campus of Technology
90429 Nuremberg

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The topics of labour, organisation and processes of tranformation and change have been a common thread of my teaching and my research. My focus is on a critical analysis of quality of labour from the view of employees as well as their direct and indirect influence on institutionalised forms of participatory decision making. With my research I am hoping for labour in germany to be meaningful, satisfying and health-preserving as this is a part an economy that is interested in innovational and economical stability.

My personal affinity to sociological research has its roots in my first professional socialisation: before starting my studies I was studying to become a maintenance mechanic with a big product manufacturer. After this I worked in teaching and research at multiple universities (University Leipzig, Marin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena). I did my PhD at the FSU Jena with the title of my thesis being ‘ ‚Betriebliche Mitbestimmung in Ostdeutschland. Die institutionellen Logiken und habituellen Muster betriebsrätlichen Handelns‘ (“Co-determination in East Germany. The institutional logic and habitual patterns of works council action”). I have worked as consultant inside management consulting from 2008 to 2012.

Since 2012 I have been a part of the scientific staff at the institute of sociology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and worked on multiple research projects (HBS, DFG, BmBF). My current main focus of research is on digital transformations of working processes – its possibilities but its limits as well.