Cathleen Grunert

Prof. Dr. Cathleen Grunert serves as a Principal Investigator at FGZ-RISC (Forschungsgruppe Zukunft Research Institute for Social Cohesion) in Halle, Germany, specializing in educational science with a focus on social cohesion and youth development dynamics.

Her research portfolio centers on critical contemporary issues:

• Educational science and socialization processes
• Participation and inclusion mechanisms
• Social inequality structures
• Generational crisis dynamics in youth socialization
• Cultural cohesion frameworks
• Transformative social conflicts

Employing qualitative research methodologies, she actively leads the FGZ research project D_04: "Youth as a generation in crisis? Socialization in conflicts and transformations," examining how young people navigate identity formation amid societal ruptures. Her work bridges theoretical educational frameworks with urgent real-world applications in social cohesion policy development.