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 has been conducting research as a research associate of the DFG-funded research project "Between Cooperation and Competition - External Employees in Knowledge-Based Employment Fields" since October 2018.

In the context of his doctoral thesis, he is working on, among other things, the origin, formation, and alignment of expectations in labor relations in markets for knowledge work. Relevant concepts here are in particular the so-called "psychological contracts" and "fictional expectations".

Research Focus:

• Economic, labor and organizational sociology
• Markets for knowledge work
• Origin, formation and alignment of expectations in (esp. knowledge-intensive) labor relations
• Linking digitalization and sustainability in the world of work

Projects:

2018-2022: Between cooperation and competition - external workers in knowledge-based employment fields

2020-2026: Research network "Work, Digitalization and Sustainability".