Personal Dates

Name: Schwarzer
First name: Steve
Date of birth: December 20th, 1976
Place of birth: Schlema /Erzgebirge
Personal status: Single
Childs: Paula Zander
Date of birth October 21th, 2001

Education

Since October 2003 Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the Graduate School "The Future of the European Social Model", Georg-August University, Goettingen;

October 2002 until September 2004 Scholar at Department of Political Science of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Post-Graduate Course: "European Integration"

Spring 2002 Graduation, academic degree Magister Artium (Master of Arts); thesis in comparative politics about welfare state regimes and gender.

1997- 2002 Student of political science (combined with philosophy and german literature) at Greifswald University.


Research Interests:
European Integration; Europeanization, Accession Countries, Open Method of Coordination - European Employment Strategy, Gender and welfare state theory, methodology, methods of comparative politics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, statistical applications

Field of Doctoral Research Project: Europeanization, Enlargement, Social and Gender policies (reconciling work and family life), European welfare states, European Social Model

Academic and Research experiences

Summer term 2005: Lecturer "Quantitative Methods for Social Scientist" Department of Political Science, University Vienna, Austria.

Winter term 2004: Lecturer "Quantitative Methods for Social Scientist" Department of Political Science, University Vienna, Austria.

Summer term 2004: Lecturer "Epistemology and Methods for Social Scientist" Department of Political Science, University Vienna, Austria.

2001: Assistant Lecturer "Introduction into Political Science" Department of Political Science, Ernst- Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany.

2001: Assistant Lecturer "Introductions into the Methods of Political Science", Department of Political Science, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany.

2000: Junior Researcher Report on equal opportunities in the public service of the federal state of Germany Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at the state government office for Equal opportunities", Schwerin and the center of empirical studies and research, Rostock

1999: Junior/Student Researcher in the project "Greifswald Views" ("Greifswalder Ansichten"), a project about the breakdown and social movements before, during and after the German Unification; research director Dr. Volker Pesch, University of Greifswald; Dr. Christina Schumacher, University of Bern

1998-2001: Research assistant of Prof. Dr. Detlef Jahn, Department of Political Science, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Germany.

Conferences/Summer Schools

May 2004 POWI 2004: Graduate Conference: Neue Impulse für die Politikwissenschaft in Österreich.

Paper: "Mechanisms of Europeanization in accession countries. Gender equality policies in Bulgaria" (german)

July 2004: Summer School of the Graduate College "The Future of the European Social Model", University Goettingen.

Paper: "Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities in Bulgaria and Romania in the process of accession. Europeanization and the principal of Conditionality."

July 2004: Oslo Summer School in Comparative Politics. Course on "Comparative Methodology - The Logic of case oriented research" lecture by Charles Ragin


Languages

German, English, skills in Russian, basic in Danish,


Computer skills

MS Office, TEX, LATEX, Reference software, SPSS, Stata, R, HLM, Mlwin


Interests

sports, lyrics