Clara Behrend

Research Associate
Research area Work and Participation in Europe and Regions

Focus of work
Decarbonization and circular economy in industry
Processes of social innovation within and between organizations
Combining technological and social innovation
Digitalization of work
Industrial and labor sociology

CV

Since 2019: Research Associate at the Social Research Institute of TU Dortmund University
2018: Research Associate in consulting for the executive board of a European works council at MIT Institut Bonn GmbH
2017–2018: Research Associate at the MIT Institute Bonn in two research projects
2016–2017: Research Associate in the project "Young Workers and Worker Interest Representation" by Cornell University and the Hans Böckler Foundation
2015: Research Associate at the WZB, Berlin
2010–2014: Student research assistant at the Social Science Research Center (WZB) in Berlin
2014: Master of Arts in Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin
2009: Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
University Bochum, Germany

Publications

Contributions

15^th -17^th September 2024: Presentation and full Paper „How Sustainable Regional Ecosystems Unlock Manufacturing SMEs‘ Technological and Social Innovation”, CINet, 25^th CINet Conference “Organizing for Collaborative Innovation”, Hamburg.
06/2021: Presentation "BEYOND4.0 - Inclusive Futures for Europe Beyond the impacts of Industrie 4.0 and Digital Disruption" at the 21st Applied Social Sciences Conference, 12 June 2021
02/2019: Input at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung seminar "Blindsport Gender in der Arbeit 4.0"- Input "Gender-equitable design of digitalisation in the world of work - Experiences from works council practice", Bonn, 9 February 2019
11/2018: German Works Councils Day 2018 - Chair of the Expert Forum on Digitalisation and Works Councils
11/2017: FGW Dialogforum 2017 "Gesellschaftliche Weiterentwicklung in Zeiten der Partikularisierung", Düsseldorf, 23 - 24 November 2017, presentation "Unternehmensmitbestimmung in Gesunheitskonzernen".
05/2017: Presentation on case studies at the meeting of the research group "Young Workers and the Labor Movement" of Cornell University and the Hans Böckler Foundation, Amsterdam, 11-12 May 2017.

Projects

greenSME - Driving manufacturing SME transformation towards green, digital and social sustainability

IS2H4C - Sustainable Circular Economy Transition: From Industrial Symbiosis to Hubs for Circularity

Contact

Social Research Center Dortmund
(Sozialforschungsstelle, sfs)
Evinger Platz 17, Room 83
Email: clara.behrend@tu-dortmund.de
Tel.: +49 231 755 90288
Fax: +49 231 755 90205