Maja S. Maier

Maja S. Maier is an Adjunct Professor at Pedagogical University Freiburg, affiliated with the School of Education and the Department of General Educational Science. Her research focuses on qualitative educational research, pedagogical professionalism, educational theory (historical and empirical), methodologies of qualitative research, childhood and youth studies, and gender and family research.

• Education: Magister (Soziologie) at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (1995), Ph.D. at Technische Universität Dresden (2008)
• Positions: Academic staff member at Pedagogical University Freiburg (2023), interim professor at University of Bremen (2021/22), habilitated at PH Heidelberg (2019), academic staff at PH Heidelberg (2016), research associate at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (2012)

Her publications emphasize qualitative methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to education, family dynamics, and gender studies. She supervises theses that align with her research themes, requiring qualitative methods or interdisciplinary frameworks. She serves on the advisory board of the Jahrbuch erziehungswissenschaftliche Geschlechterforschung and contributes to journals like sozialer Sinn and heiEDUCATION Journal.