Kasimir Dederichs

I have recently completed my Ph.D. in Sociology at Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. From September 2024 onwards, I will be a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College. Broadly speaking, my research interest centres around how members of different groups encounter, relate to, and form relationships with each other.

In my Ph.D. thesis entitled "Who (else) is Involved? How Voluntary Associations Connect and Separate Us?", I study the role of civic organizations for social cohesion by analyzing participatory inequalities and patterns of segregation. In doing so, I look at socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and gender as key dimensions of social inequality. My Ph.D. research is funded by an ESRC grant.

In another series of projects, I use full-population register data from the Netherlands to explore patterns of inter-ethnic partnership formation.

Before coming to Oxford, I obtained my B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of Cologne. I have also visited the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute and Utrecht University for a research stay and spent a semester at the University of Groningen.