Almut Peukert

Prof. Dr. Almut Peukert is a Junior Professor at the University of Hamburg's Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, holding the Junior Professorship in Sociology with specializations in Work, Organization, and Gender. Her research focuses on the intersectionality of gender and labor across professional, familial, and reproductive domains, employing qualitative methods to examine societal transformations.

• Specializes in care work and gender-differentiated labor division
• Leads the "LFF Care Transformations" research network
• Engaged in public outreach through "Lecture for All" and media commentary

Research Interests include:

• Reproductive work and family-building practices
• Gendered labor dynamics in heterosexual and same-sex relationships
• Analysis of parental allowance reforms
• Work-family reconciliation strategies during the pandemic
• Care work's socioeconomic status
• Queer kinship and non-heteronormative family structures

Recent Publications analyze ambivalent recognition orders in parenthood, pandemic-era labor negotiations, and family policy reforms. Her work frequently appears in Femina Politica, German Politics, and WSI-Mitteilungen.

Scientific Awards include:

• 2023: Maria Weber Grant for outstanding young female scientists
• 2022: Gender Prize for bachelor thesis on social reproduction crisis
• 2022: Gender Prize for article on intra-family labor division during the Corona crisis

Her teaching innovations include the "Flipped Gender" project, integrating flipped classroom methods with gender sociology research. She actively collaborates with institutions like the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS) and participates in international conferences such as EASST-4S.