Research assistant
Ronny Ehlen has been coordinator of the UHOH research focus "Work, Digitalization and Sustainability" since October 2020 and has also been a research associate at the Chair of Sociology at the University of Hohenheim since December 2019. Previously, he was a research associate at the Chair of Sociology with a focus on the sociology of work and organization at the University of Trier.
In addition to teaching and supervising theses, he worked as a project research associate in the DFG-funded research project "Between Cooperation and Competition - External Employees in Knowledge-Based Employment Fields" from October 2018 to February 2023.
In his doctoral thesis, he investigates the interplay between highly qualified solo self-employed workers, their hiring firms and staffing agencies (Thesis title: "The problem of embedding: Towards a concept of embedding in the context of the triadic work relationship between freelancers, hiring firms, and agencies in German medicine and IT").
Research Focus:
- Economic sociology, sociology of work and organization sociology
- Flexible work, especially in markets for knowledge work
- The role of work in and for the twin transformation
- Evaluation patterns, evaluation work and justification structures
Projects:
2020-2026: Research network "Work, Digitalization and Sustainability".
2018-2022: Between cooperation and competition - external workers in knowledge-based employment fields
