Prof. Dr. Heike Greschke
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Comparative Cultural Studies and Qualitative Research (Sociology)
NameMs Prof. Dr. Heike Greschke
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Heike Greschke was appointed to TU Dresden in September 2016. From 2012 to 2016 she held a junior professorship in media sociology at Justus Liebig University in Giessen (JLU). There, she was spokesperson for the section Power-Medium-Society ('Macht-Medium-Gesellschaft') at the Center for Media and Interactivity, as well as for the section Medialisation of Society ('Medialisierung von Gesellschaft') at the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law. She is a member of the research group Migration and Human Rights (FGMM) of JLU. From 2009 to 2012 she was project leader of the Junior Research Group Climate Worlds, a cooperation project between the Essen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS).
Heike Greschke studied social pedagogy in Koblenz (Dipl.-Soz.päd. 1995) and, following several years of professional activity (Mädchenhaus Bielefeld e.V.), studied sociology and social anthropology in Bielefeld and Seville. She then did her doctorate in the Research Training Group World Concepts and Global Structural Patterns: Differentiation and Functional Diversification of World Society. Her ethnographic study 'Daheim in www.cibervalle.com - Zusammenleben im medialen Alltag der Migration' (Lucius&Lucius 2009, Routledge 2012) was honoured with the dissertation award of the University Association.
Heike Greschke's research foci are the empirical analyses of migration- and/or media-related transformation processes of society, and negotiation processes of (national, cultural, ethnic) affiliations and differentiation markings taking place under these influences, as well as the methodological reflection of these phenomena.
In a DFG-funded project, she and her team examined the significance of communication technologies for the long-term maintenance and transformation of parent-child relationships in transstate-organised families. She has established the online platform migr@com (to the website), which serves the public presentation and research of the role of communication technologies in migration societies. Migr@com is winner of the university competition More than bits and bytes - young scientists communicate their work ('Mehr als Bits and Bytes – Nachwuchswissenschaftler kommunizieren ihre Arbeit'. Wissenschaftsjahr 2014 - Die digitale Gesellschaft). Moreover, she is interested in the use of digital technologies in the development of innovative forms of teaching and learning. With the project Sociology to go - Learning with the smartphone (funded by JLU's Teaching Innovation Fund), a mobile learning concept has been developed that turns students' living environments into places to learn and apply general sociological theories and methods.