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Dr. Sarah Hitzler is a Researcher in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, affiliated with Department 2 - Methods of Empirical Social Research. She serves as a spokesperson for scientific staff within the Faculty and is actively involved in the DFG-funded project "Planning in Action" under Prof. Dr. Ruth Ayaß. Her roles also include participation in the Methods Laboratory and the AG Ayaß research group.
Education: Studied Linguistics and Sociology at Bielefeld University and the University of Amsterdam, completing her PhD (summa cum laude) in 2010 with a conversation analytic study on help-planning conversations. She has held teaching roles in qualitative methods and coordinated research initiatives like the ZiF research group "Communicating Disaster".
Research focuses on group interactions, disability studies, and the communicative construction of future-oriented plans. Methodologically, she employs ethnomethodological conversation analysis and genre analysis to explore planning activities and helping contexts. Recent work includes analyzing risk mitigation in mundane planning and the trajectory of agreements in complex planning processes.
Professional service roles include membership in the Faculty Conference (as deputy member of academic mid-level staff) and representation of scientific staff within the Faculty's status groups.
