Deborah Nägler

Dr. Deborah Nägler is an academic staff member at the Department of Social Pedagogy, Institute of Education, University of Tübingen. She coordinates the Erasmus+ study abroad programme and specializes in childhood studies, socialization processes, and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on modern childhood in individualized societies and structural vulnerabilities affecting children.

Education:

• M.A. Education Science, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (2015)
• B.A. Social Work, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (2012)

Her research interests include childhood and youth studies, poverty analysis, and societal theories. She has conducted extensive work on the interplay between individualization and societal integration in child development. Her PhD project explored 'Growing up in an individualized society – Modern childhood as a psychosocial transitional space in a dialectically understood relationship between socialization and individuation.'

Key conference contributions include discussions on transitional research across life stages and the methodology of interdisciplinary social work. She co-organized workshops like 'Linking Ages' (2018) and contributed to national/international conferences on transition research.

Professional roles include membership in the German Psychoanalytic Social Psychology Society (GfpS) and board membership of the Doctoral Students' Convention at the University of Tübingen (2017–2020).