Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Badenhoop
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) for Sociology of global change and local adaptation
Elisabeth Badenhoop is Professor of Sociology in the School of Human and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on the sociology and governance of migration and citizenship, climate change, as well as digitalization. Her research has been funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Her work has been published in leading international, peer-reviewed journals, including Governance, Regulation & Governance, Comparative Political Studies, Citizenship Studies and Migration Studies.
Professor Badenhoop has extensive experience in communicating her research findings to stakeholders at the national and international level. She contributed as an academic advisor to the report “Becoming one of us: Reforming the UK’s citizenship system for a competitive, post-Brexit world” by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), in response to a UK Home Office consultation on naturalization reform. Based on her research expertise on naturalization procedures in the UK and Germany, she was recently invited to give evidence to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the UK House of Lords as part of its inquiry into the “Life in the UK” test.
Before joining the University of Wuppertal in October 2022, Professor Badenhoop held research positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and an M.Sc. in the Sociology of Equality and Human Rights (with distinction), both from the University of Glasgow, and a B.A. in Social Sciences, Philosophy and Politics from the University of Leipzig.
