Prof. Dr. Caroline Ruiner is director of the Department of Sociology at the Institute of Education, Labor, and Society at the University of Hohenheim. Her research focuses include the transformation of work and the effects of change in the course of digitalization processes at the individual, organizational, and inter-company level.
The sociologist was born on 30 October 1979 in Offenbach am Main. She studied sociology and business administration at the University of Frankfurt. In 2009 she received her doctorate from the University of Augsburg, and in 2018 she completed her post-doctoral lecturing qualification (Habilitation) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Ruhr University in Bochum. After working as an assistant professor of sociology with a focus on the sociology of work and organization at the University of Trier, she was appointed to the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim in 2019.
She has been involved in academic self-governance, among other things, at the University of Hohenheim since March 2020 as Managing Director of the Institute for Education, Labor, and Society, since October 2020 as spokesperson for the research focus "Work, Digitization and Sustainability," and since July 2017 as a founding member of the Women and Gender Forum (WAG) of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).
