September 12th, 2024: Conference participation
New study on religion & partnership preferences among young Christians and Muslims in Germany – including exciting results on partnership types and gender differences. Irena Koga and Jana Kuhlemann are presenting exciting results from the Parform Project on the role of religion and the role of matching preferences in partner selection among recent refugees at the ECSR Conference in UPF, Barcelona (12-14 September, 2024)
August 28th, 2024: Conference participation
Is it a match? Stefanie Heyne presented more results on the congruence of partnership preferences between Syrian and Afghan refugees and the German population at the Annual Conference of Experimental Sociology in Turin (28-30 August, 2024).
June 12th, 2024: Conference participation
Is it a match? Irena Kogan presented first results of our paper on the congruence of partnership preferences between Syrian and Afghan refugees and the German population at European Population Conference in Edinburgh, UK (12-15 June 2024)
October 31st, 2024: New Publication
New paper on partnership preferences in the Zeitschrift fürt Soziologie. Using a factorial survey experiment in CILS4EU, we found low openness towards partnerships with refugees from Syria and Afghanistan among young adults in Germany!
3rd August, 2023: Press
Today we have a visit from the television crew! We are looking forward to a feature about the sociologist Prof. Irena Kogan and her work.
November 14th, 2022: Conference participation
Dr. Stefanie Heyne presented first results on “Attitudes towards Interethnic Partnerships” using GIP-study at the Seminar “Analytical Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications”, San Servolo, Venice, November 14th to November 17th, 2022
October 27th, 2022: Lecture
Our PI Irena Kogan spoke at the Inaugural Lecture of the Research Master in Sociology and Demography at the University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, on 27th of October, 2022, with recent data from Parform Project on intermarriages with culturally distant refugees!
September 26th, 2022: Conference participation
Great presentations in our ad-hoc group on interethnic partnerships at the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association, with the theme „Polarized Worlds“ (September, 26th to 30th, 2022, University of Bielefeld), with first results on partnership preferences using CILS4EU data by the team of Parform Project!
We are delighted that our institute’s director Irena Kogan is one of the new fellows of the Federal Institute for Population Research.
April 1st, 2023: New Team Member
We are excited to welcome Muhammad Muhammad to the PARFORM team. As a student assistant, he will help translate and review the questionnaire for the quantitative survey of the first and second wave. He will also do research on different subjects related to the project and help administer our databases.
July 2022: Our Survey has started
Our survey „PARFORM – Partnerschaften und Freundschaften in Deutschland / Partnerships and friendships in Germany“ has started. If you need further information please visit: https://parform-project.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/survey/
January 15th, 2022: Three New Team Members
We are happy to welcome three new team members, Fatemeh, Mohammed and Grace.
Fatemeh is a Master student in Sociology at the University of Bamberg, specialising in Migration and Integration Studies. She has many years of practical experience in working with refugees (especially with unaccompanied minors). Fatemeh’s task in the PARFORM project will be to review the Dari translation of the quantitative survey questionnaire. Furthermore, she will test the final questionnaire by conducting interviews with Afghan refugee men whose mother tongue is Dari.
Mohammed studies Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern. Mohammed’s task in the PARFORM project will be to review the Pashto translation of the quantitative survey questionnaire. Furthermore, he will test the final questionnaire by conducting interviews with Afghan refugee men whose mother tongue is Pashto.
Grace is a Master student in Sociology at the University of Mannheim. Grace has practical experience in assisting refugees and young immigrants with their integration into the German labor market and education system. As a native English speaker and a fluent German speaker, Grace will assist in editing and translating various documents (reports, manuscripts, website texts etc.). September 1st, 2021: New Team Member
We are happy to announce that Jana Kuhlemann is now part of the PARFORM team. Jana is a PhD student in Sociology at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS) of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS, University of Mannheim). Jana will be involved in most phases of the project, from developing and testing the questionnaire for the quantitative surveys to evaluating and analysing the collected data at the end of the project.
September 1st, 2021: New Team Member
We are excited to welcome Michelle Maier to the PARFORM team. As a student assistant, she will help review the questionnaire for the quantitative survey. She will also do research on different subjects related to the project such as the measurement of the physical attractiveness of interview participants. Further, she will provide support for different organizational tasks.
September 1st, 2021: New Team Member
We are excited to welcome Omar Alsawadi to the PARFORM team. As a student assistant, one of his main tasks will be to transcribe and translate the Arabic in-depth audio interviews into German text. Moreover, he will help testing the questionnaire for the quantitative survey and check its translation from Arabic to German.
May 11th, 2021: Start of in-depth Interviews
Below you can see a flyer in Arabic that we have distributed in various locations in Berlin and Mannheim so far. It describes briefly the PARFORM study and says that we are searching for our in-depth interviews for Syrian men, who are between 18 and 30 years old and migrated to Germany between 2014 and 2018.
May 1st, 2021: New Team Member
We are excited to welcome Chadi Abdul-Rida to the PARFORM team. As a postdoc he will contribute to the examination of the refugee partnership patterns and coordinate the organization of the in-depth interviews with recent refugees. Chadi has completed his PhD at the Technische Universität Chemnitz. His main interests are in the areas of migration research and family sociology. We are looking forward to working with you!
March 1st, 2021: New Team Member
We are happy to welcome Stefanie Heyne, who has joined the PARFORM team as a postdoc. She will be focusing on the examination of the preference structure of recent refugees and the established members of the German society, and coordinate the sample selection for the panel study. Her main research interests are gender inequality, family sociology, education and labour markets, comparative research and methods. She joins us from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Welcome, Stefanie, we are excited to have you on the team!
