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Andreas Hadjar

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 andreas.hadjar@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 7790
 

Social structure analysis (including inequalities related to social origin, gender, migration), educational sociology (including educational inequalities, education systems), social policy (including welfare state regimes, migration policies), political sociology (including values, attitudes, participation), subjective well-being and methods of empirical social research.

Professor
Department of Social Work, Social Policy and Global Development

STA 01 bu. 2.102
Rte Bonnesfontaines 11
1700 Fribourg
STA 01, 2.102
+41 26 300 7790

Biography

Andreas Hadjar is Professor of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research at the Study division Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work. He publishes on inequalities in educational attainment, labour market and other life chances along the inequality axes of social origin, gender and migration background, subjective well-being, values, attitudes and political participation. He is also particularly interested in the question of how education systems, welfare state regimes and other social characteristics shape inequalities. His methodological repertoire is primarily based on quantitative methods with a focus on longitudinal and comparative (multi-level) perspectives, but also includes mixed-method and qualitative designs.

He was Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Luxembourg, Institute of Education and Society (2010-2024). He was senior assistant at the Department of Sociology of Education at the University of Bern (2004-2010) and research associate at the Institute of Sociology at Chemnitz University of Technology (2000-2004). He studied sociology and journalism (Magister artium) at the Universities of Leipzig (Germany) and Glasgow (Scotland).

He functions as head of the Department of Social Work, Social Policy and Global Development since 2022. He is treasurer of the European Educational Research Association (2021-2028) and since 2024 member of the board of the Swiss Sociological Association.

Current projects: PATH_CH-LUX on transitions to the labour market of young adults with disabilities (SNSF; https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/215136; 2023-2027) and PIONEERED on pioneering policies and practices to combat educational inequalities in Europe (EU H2020; https://pioneered.uni.lu; 2021-2024).

Research and publications

  • Publication list
    82 publications


    Andreas Hadjar, Susanne Edler, Frontiers in Sociology (2025) | Journal article


    Alexander Wuttke, Nate Breznau, Eike Mark Rinke, Thijs Bol, Amie Bostic, Muna Adem, Jule Adriaans, Esra Akdeniz, Amalia Alvarez-Benjumea, Henrik Kenneth Andersen, Daniel Auer, Flavio Azevedo, Oke Bahnsen, Ling Bai, Dave Balzer, Paul C. Bauer, Gerrit Bauer, Markus Baumann, Sharon Baute, Verena Benoit, Julian Bernauer, Carl Berning, Anna Berthold, Felix S. Bethke, Thomas Biegert, Katharina Blinzler, Johannes N. Blumenberg, Licia Bobzien, Andrea Bohman, Kathrin B. Busch, Zuzanna Brzozowska, Katharina Burgdorf, Kaspar Burger, Juan Carlos Castillo, Nathan Chan, Pablo Christmann, Roxanne Connelly, Christian S. Czymara, Elena Damian, Eline de Rooij, Alejandro Ecker, Achim Edelmann, Christina Eder, Maureen A. Eger, Simon Ellerbrock, Anna Forke, Andrea Forster, Danilo Freire, Chris Gaasendam, Konstantin Gavras, Vernon Gayle, Andreas Hadjar, Royal Society Open Science (2025) | Journal article


    Christina Haas, Katri Kleemola, Andreas Hadjar, Heidi Hyytinen, Tarja Tuononen, Justin J.W. Powell, Auli Toom, Comparative Education (2025) | Journal article

    Practice Research and Pioneering Approaches for Tackling Educational Inequalities , in Equity in Education: A Handbook for Participative Approaches in Research and Development to Address School Inequalities
    Jan Skrobanek, Solvejg Jobst, Susana Vazquez Cupeiro, Andreas Hadjar, Sabine Bollig, Aigul Alieva (2025) | Book chapter

    , in Handbuch Bildungsarmut
    Alyssa Laureen Grecu, Andreas Hadjar, Jan Scharf (2025), ISBN: 9783658446987 | Book chapter


    Susanne Backes, Sercan Erer, Andreas Hadjar, International Journal of Educational Research (2025) | Journal article

    , in Digitalisation, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Higher Education. Reflections on Theory and Practice
    Andreas Hadjar, Juliette E. Torabian, Auli Toom (2025) | Book chapter


    Juliette E. Torabian, Andreas Hadjar, Auli Toom (Cambridge Scholars, 2025) | Book

Teaching and courses

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