M.A. Michael Schönwolff

Doctoral candidate

Michael Schönwolff studied sociology and political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) and social work at the KSH Munich. While completing his master’s degree in sociology, he worked as a student assistant both in the BMBF-funded project “Civil Society Organizations and Challenges of Migration and Diversity: Agents of Change (ZOMiDi)” (2018-2021), and at the chair of Qualitative Methods in Empirical Social Research at the LMU Munich. In his master’s thesis, he investigated processes of inclusion of migrants in an AIDS Service Organization in Germany.  Since October 2021, he is a doctoral candidate and research associate in Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller’s team at the chair of Science and Technology Policy (STS Department, TUM).

He works as a research associate in the DFG-funded project “De- and Restabilization of Evidence in the Corona Crisis” within the DFG Research Group “Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice”. The project investigates how scientific evidence is produced, negotiated and communicated under the conditions of the pandemic.

  • Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Science
  • Qualitative Methods of Social Research

  • Kostimpas, Dimitra; Schönwolff, Michael (2022): Zwischen Sozialer Arbeit, Lebensweltnähe und Selbstbestimmung. Migrant:innen in der lokalen Aidshilfe. In: von Unger, Hella; Baykara-Krumme, Helen; Karakayali, Serhat; Schönwälder, Karen (Hg.) Organisationaler Wandel durch Migration? Diversität der Zivilgesellschaft. Bielefeld: transcript, S. 193-211.

  • Herausforderungen der Biomedizin. Soziale, politische und ethische Dimensionen der medizinischen Biologie, MA-Seminar (SS 2022, TUM)
  • Academic Skills, MA-Seminar (WS 2021/2022, TUM)
  • Angewandte Qualitative Methoden: Inhaltsanalyse und visuelle Methoden, BA-Übung (SS 2020, LMU München)
  • Tutorium zur BA-Vorlesung „Einführung in die Methoden der qualitativen Sozialforschung“ (Prof. Dr. Hella von Unger) (WS 2019/2020 & WS 2020/2021, LMU München)
  • Tutorium zur BA-Vorlesung „Soziologische Theorien“ (Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi) (SS 2019, LMU München)

  • German Society for Sociology (DGS)