Third-party projects

running projects

Erdmute Alber: Forging And Belonging:Researching children’s socialrelations and Imagined futuresthrough Crafting in rural WestAfrica (FABRIC)

Erdmute Alber: Pathways for vocational training and informal learning in West Africa (PAVTIL)

Tabea Scharrer: Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany

Erdmute Alber, Anna Madeleine Ayeh, Tabea Häberlein: Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the family and work situation of members of the University of Bayreuth (CovCare@UBT)(CovCare@UBT)

Erdmute Alber, Iris Clemens: Making a Living - Learning trajectories towards the ability to earn a livelihood

Erdmute Alber, Carlos Kölbl: Learning beyond the classroom - Coping with illiteracy in literate urban environments in Bolivia and Benin

completed projects

Lena Kroeker: (In)Security of the Kenyan Middle Classes: Social Mobility and the Fear of Falling - completed 2024

Gretchen Bauer, Akosua Keseboa Darkwah,  Erdmute Alber, Ebony Coletu, Jaqueline-Bethel Mougoué: Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on "Increasing Women's Political Presence in West Africa (IFG 8) - completed 2023

Karen Wells (Birkbeck, University of London), Peace Mamle Yoko Tetteh (University of Ghana),  Erdmute Alber: Development and Education in the Vernacular for Infants and Children (DEVI): Learning Cultures in a Rural Villages in West Africa - completed 2023

Paolo Gaibazzi: AfroEuropean Frontiers - completed 2023

Manfred Stoppok: Disruptive processes in the electricity sector of Guinea-Bissau - a history of electrification, de-electrification and re-electrification (1890 to 2020) - completed 2023

Generational relations and intra-family resource flows in West Africa: a Benin – Togo comparison - completed 2021

Kinship and politics: Rethinking a conceptual split and its epistemic implications in the social sciences - completed 2021

Claudia Liebelt: Olfactories of hygiene - completed 2021

Erdmute Alber, Dieter Neubert, Lena Kroeker and Florian Stoll: Middle classes on the rise - completed 2019

Claudia Liebelt: Aesthetic Body Modifications and Femininity in a Global City: Cultures of Beauty in Istanbul - completed 2018

Jeannett Martin: Child foster care in the context of ethnic heterogeneity (Borgu, Benin) - completed 2013

Erdmute Alber and Christian Ungruhe: "Soccer migration" - A dream of Europe and its effect on the German image of foreigners - completed 2013

Erdmute Alber: Family structures in upheaval - completed 2007

Erdmute Alber and Jeannett Martin: Transformations of social parenthood among ethnic groups in the north of the Republic of Bénin - completed 2007