Ethics Committee
The Ethics Committee reviews scientific projects based at the IfS from the perspective of research ethics. A two-stage process forms the basis for this:
Stage 1: The principal investigators of all empirical research projects based at the IfS must complete the questionnaire for the self-assessment of research projects (see below) well in advance of conducting the research. The responses to these questions determine whether a detailed review of research ethics (= Stage 2) is necessary.
Stage 2: The Committee’s detailed review of research projects is based on the completed questionnaire and the mandatory application. Following its review of the project, the Committee issues a corresponding opinion.
The Commission generally meets every two months in the middle of the month. Applications to the Commission under Level 2 must be submitted, complete and in a PDF file, to the Commission’s email address no later than two weeks before the respective meeting, i.e., on the first day of every even-numbered month.
If you have any questions regarding research ethics or the procedure, you may contact the Commission at any time.
Contact: ethikkommission@ifs.uni-frankfurt.de
Persons
Sabine Flick (Chairperson)
Professor of General Sociology at the Freiburg University of Education. Previously Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Fulda University of Applied Sciences. Doctorate in 2012 at Goethe University Frankfurt. Subsequently teaching and research at various institutes in Germany, Israel, Austria and the USA, including the University of California, Berkeley, Tel Aviv University and the University of Graz. Head of the DFG project » Psychotherapeutische Behandlung arbeitsbezogenen Leidens in Deutschland (PsyWork)«, member of medico international and of the editorial board of Psychotherapie Forum, journal of the austrian Bundesverbands für Psychotherapie. At the Institute for Social Research she is one of the speakers of the working group Gender, Kinship, Sexuality and chair of the ethics commission.
Kai Dröge
Studies in Sociology, Philosophy and Computer Science in Siegen. 2009 PhD at Justus Liebig University Giessen. 2002 to 2006 research and teaching at the University of Wuppertal. 2002 to 2016 research assistant at the Institute for Social Research, inter alia in the SNSF-funded collaborative project with Olivier Voirol »Online Dating. Mediale Kommunikation zwischen romantischer Liebe und ökonomischer Rationalisierung«. Since 2008 Lecturer and project head at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Since 2016 research associate at the IfS, since 2022 Permanent Fellow.
Sarah Speck
Sarah Speck is a professor of sociology specializing in women’s and gender studies. She previously conducted research and taught in Hamburg, Berlin, Darmstadt, Tübingen, and Osnabrück. She has been with the Institute for Social Research since 2015 and has been a member of the faculty since 2020. Her research interests include the contradictory transformation of gender relations, social reproduction in contemporary capitalism, and transnational (queer) feminist and other social movements. She has published on topics including critical and feminist social theory, the political economy of couple relationships, gender/socialization and upbringing, new masculinities, care, and motherhood. She holds the Chair of Comparative Cultural Sociology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
Thomas Barth
Master’s degree in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Jena. 2008 to 2012 doctoral researcher in the doctoral program »Demokratie und Kapitalismus« of the University of Siegen and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. 2013 PhD. 2014 to 2022 assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Since 2022 member of the scientific management at the Institute for Social Research.
Dokumente
Links
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: „Wann brauche ich ein Ethikvotum?“
- Ethik-Kodex der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) und des Berufsverbandes Deutscher Soziologinnen und Soziologen (BDS)
- Ethik-Kodex der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW)
- RatSWD:
• Forschungsethik – Handlungsempfehlungen für die Einhaltung ethischer Grundsätze bei empirischer Forschung
• Best-Practice Forschungsethik. Best-Practice-Sammlung zur Forschungsethik im For-schungsprozess - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Umgang mit Forschungsdaten
- KonsortSWD: Forschungsdatenmanagement in kleinen Forschungsprojekten
Equal Opportunity Officers
The Equal Opportunity Officers may be contacted by anyone working at the institute and serves in an advisory capacity to the institute's administration.
Persons
Ricarda Biemüller
2007 to 2013 studies in Educational Science at the University of Tübingen and the University of Bielefeld. 2016 to 2020 Research Assistant at the Institute for Educational Science at the University of Wuppertal. 2021 Doctorate at the University of Wuppertal. 2021 to 2024 Research Assistant at the Department of Educational Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt. Teaching assignments at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, among others. Since 2024 Research Associate at the Institute for Social Research.
Maischa Gelhard
2017 bachelor’s degree in social sciences and philosophy from Philipps University of Marburg. Afterward master’s degree in sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt and Tel Aviv University. During her studies, tutor and staff member in the Department of Education at Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 2019, she has been a research associate at the archive of the Institute for Social Research; since 2022, she has been a freelance employee at the Theodor W. Adorno Archive; and from 2020 to 2026, she worked in the curatorial department at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt.
Office of the Ombudsman
The Institute for Social Research has two ombudspersons who can be contacted by anyone working at the IfS in cases of conflict with members of the institute.
Persons
Stephan Voswinkel
1982 Doctorate at the University of Göttingen. 1982 to 1984 research assistant at Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen. 1985 to 1988 research assistant at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Göttingen, 1989 to 1992 at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Marburg. 1993 to 2000 research assistant and Deputy professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Duisburg, habilitation in 2000. Since 2001 research associate at the Institute for Social Research. 2014 to 2022 member of the Research Council of the Institute of Social Research. 2013 Senior Fellow at the Research College »Post-Growth Society« at the University of Jena. Since 2013 senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt. 2015 to 2018 various deputy and visiting professorships at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Technical University Darmstadt.
Greta Wagner
Studium der Soziologie an der FU Berlin und der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Mitglied der Nachwuchsgruppe »Variationen des Neoliberalismus und ihre Transformation« bei Normative Orders von 2009 – 2011. Promotion 2014 an der Goethe-Universität zur Soziologie pharmakologischer Leistungssteigerung. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Institut für Soziologie der Goethe-Universität (Arbeitsbereiche Soziale Ungleichheit) von 2011 – 2017. Member des Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 2018 – 2019. Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Institut für Soziologie der TU Darmstadt (Arbeitsbereich Allgemeine Soziologie/Soziologische Theorie) von 2019-2024. In dieser Zeit Vertretungsprofessuren an der Universität Luzern und der TU Darmstadt. Seit 2024 Emmy-Noether-Nachwuchsgruppenleiterin. Seit 2024 Professorin für Kultursoziologie an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Mitherausgabe von WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung.