Dr. Ina Krause (Acting Professor)
Research topics and methods
- digital, socio-technical, socio-economic, and socio-cultural structural change in work, organization, employment, and (vocational) education
- digitization and virtualization of working environments and the role of new intermediaries
- organization of work and corporate responsibility
- connections between (vocational) education and social justice
- qualitative social research, expertise in mixed-method approaches with a focus on organizational research
Topics covered in current teaching activities
- lectures on the topics of empirical social research methods, qualitative social research, scientific theory, socioeconomic transformation, social structure analysis
- seminars on organizational analysis and development, discourse analysis, interview techniques, new learning, transformation of (vocational) education and work,
- research seminar on education and sustainability
Previous academic and professional activities
| since 10/2025 | Interim Professor of Sociological Culture Comparism and Qualitative Research (W2); University of Dresden |
| 10/2024 to 09/2025 |
Interim Professor of Business Economics, esp. Higher Education Didactics and Development, University of Paderborn |
| 04/2024 to 09/2024 |
Interim Professor of Business and Social Education, University of Paderborn |
| 03/2021 to 11/2024 | Postdoc, BMBF-Project Network: InnoVET-CLOU `Future Clusters for Innovative Vocational Training´, Sub-Project: `Fachexpert:in Weiterbildung (Experts for Further Education)´, University of Dresden |
| WS 25/24/23/22/21 |
Lecturer for Lecture Science Theory for Economics; University of Salzburg |
| SS 23 |
Lecturer for Lecture Social Structure Analysis, University of Applied Science Erfurt |
| 11/2015 to 02/2021 |
Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Sociology/Macrosociology, University of Dresden |
| 12/2013 to–05/2015 |
Lead Auditor for Quality Management Systems and Head of Department QM Vocational Training & AZAV; International Certification Group (ICG GmbH), Chemnitz |
| 10/2013 – 03/2014 |
Lecturer at Faculty of Economics, University of Jena |
| 01/2011 bis 12/2011 |
Research Assistant/ Project Work; BMBF-Project: Research Data Center for Business and Organizational Data (RDC-BO), University of Bielefeld |
| 09/2010 bis 12/2010 | Freelancer; Methodological Consulting, University of Jena |
| 07/2004 bis 08/2010 | Doktorandin und Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Sonderforschungsbereich 580: „Gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen nach dem Systemumbruch, Projekt-B2: „Betrieb und Beschäftigung im Wandel, Universität Jena |