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Prof. Dr. Ingrid Jungwirth serves as Professor of Social Sciences with a focus on Diversity and Inclusion at the Faculty of Society and Economics, Rhineland-Waal University of Applied Sciences since 2012. Her academic work critically examines questions of societal participation through sociological frameworks, addressing how diversity and inclusion can be fostered within changing organizational and societal contexts despite persistent inequalities.
Dr. Jungwirth completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, with her 2007 dissertation published as "Zum Identitätsdiskurs in den Sozialwissenschaften – Eine postkolonial und queer informierte Kritik an G. H. Mead, E. Goffman und E. H. Erikson." She previously studied Sociology, Social Pedagogies and German Literature at universities in Berlin and Munich. Her academic journey includes teaching positions at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, and Berlin School of Economics and Law.
Her research program spans mobility and migration, gender and diversity studies, sociology of work and gender, and social theories. Prof. Jungwirth investigates how societal participation remains unequally distributed despite legal guarantees of equality, with particular attention to how globalization, changing work environments demanding increased mobility and flexibility, and evolving social norms affect different demographic groups. Her work employs intersectional approaches to understand how gender, migration background, nationality, skin color, religion, sexuality, age, and disability intersect to create unique experiences of inclusion and exclusion.
Prof. Jungwirth's publication record reveals a consistent scholarly trajectory focused on transnational labor migration, gender dynamics in the workforce, and diversity in European contexts. Her most recent work (2023-2025) shows increasing emphasis on cross-border labor mobility in the Euregio region, pandemic impacts on migrant workers in the meat industry, and seasonal agricultural labor from intersectional perspectives. She has made significant contributions to understanding workforce diversity in STEM fields and the challenges faced by women with disabilities or chronic illnesses in workplace reintegration.
Currently, Prof. Jungwirth leads the TRAM (Transnational Labor Migration in the Euregio) research project (2023-2026), a cross-border collaboration with Radboud University Nijmegen, Euregio Rhine-Waal, and the municipality of Apeldoorn, funded by Interreg VI-A. Previously, she served as project manager for the BMBF and ESF-funded research project "Labor market integration of highly skilled migrant women" (2009-2012) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she also coordinated the multi-university consortium involving RWTH Aachen and TU Hamburg-Harburg.
