Norbert Schröer

Biography

b January 14, 1953 1974 - 1978 Study of Social Pedagogy at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and at the University of Essen GH, then: Vocational Recognition Year; Award of the academic degree 'Social pedagogue, grad.' and the occupational title 'State-recognized social pedagogue' 1977 - 1985 Studies at the Universities of Bochum and Essen GH for Lehramt for Secondary Levels II and I in the subjects of Social Sciences and German; Completion with the 1st state exams Traineeship for Lehramt for secondary level II and I; Completion with the 2nd state exams 1985 to 1988 Scientific employee in the Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities at the Fernuniversität Hagen GH 1991 Doctorate to Dr. rer. soc. in the Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities at the Fernuniversität Hagen GH 1991-1997 Scientific assistant in the Department of Education, Social and Humanities of the University of Hagen Hagen and then in the Faculty of Literary and Linguistics at the University of Essen 1997 - 1999 Habilitation fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2001 Habilitation at the Faculty of Literature and Linguistics of the University -GH- Essen, topic of the Habilitationsschrift 'Missed Communication? Communication-Sociological Case Analysis for Intercultural Communication ' since 2001 Assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen Oct. 2001 - March 2002 Guest professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Vienna since 2002 Lecturer for the Methods of Qualitative Social Research at the Faculty of Sociology and Empirical Social Research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (PhD) Oct. 2002 - September 2005 scientist at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Duisburg Essen since Sept. 2009 Representation professor for 'Empirical Social Research with a focus on qualitative methods' at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Department of Social and Cultural Studies since August 2010 Co-director of the research project "Strange Attitudes and Own Strangers", University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Humanities and the Institute of Cultural Studies in Essen. from September 2013 onwards Professorship for "Qualitative Methods of Empirical Social Research" with a focus on intercultural communication research

Research Interest

Qualitative social research; Hermeneutical Knowledge Sociology field research Sociology of criminal law, especially police Intercultural communication Intercultural Higher Education