Primary research interests

  • Care work
  • Crises
  • Dirty work
  • Qualitative methods
  • Gender / Queer studies

Publications

  • Simon, A. & Villa, P. (accepted). ‚Keine Sorge, wir sind Profis‘ – Care und Professionalisierung in Reinigungsarbeiten während der Pandemie. In: Bomert et al. (Eds.), Care, Verletzlichkeit und gesellschaftliche Brüche in der Corona Pandemie. transcript Verlag.
  • Krause, K., Seits, M., Simon, A., Wezel, K., & Bomert, C. (accepted). Caringscapes der Corona-Pandemie – transversale Krisen als Frage von Raum und Care. In: K. Crepaz & C. Kircher (Eds.), Pandemie als transversale Krise: Rückblick und Konsequenzen für die Post-Covid-Gesellschaft. transcript Verlag.
  • Simon, A. (2025). Krise als Dauerzustand? Reinigungsarbeiten während der Hochphase der Covid-19-Pandemie. In L. Dürkop-Henseling, M. Horwitz, & K. Späte (Eds.), Sozialwissenschaftliche Beobachtungen von Krisen (pp. 241–259). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-48682-2_11
  • von Bose, K., Simon, A., & Villa, P. (2025). Cleaning as care work: conceptual musings. International Journal of Care and Caring 9(2), p. 418-423. https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000100
  • Resch, M., Rieker, F., & Simon, A. (2024). Skandalisierung und Stereotypisierung. Frauenbilder in den Schlagzeilen. In: Stadt Ingolstadt, Kulturamt (Ed.), HEADLINED Anke Stiller (200th ed., pp. 19–29). publish&print Verlag.
  • Simon, A. & Villa Braslavsky, P.-I. (2023). It’s a dirty job: How life and work changed for cleaners in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine.https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.fnxk2360
  • Prinzellner, Y., Simon, A., Drachmann, D., Ghanem, M., Münter, L., & Yghemonos, S. (2023). Care–life balance: a new normal for men too?, International Journal of Care and Caring (published online ahead of print 2023). https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221X16789016484824
  • Prinzellner, Y.; Simon, A.; Drachmann, D.; Münter, L.; Bulsink, V.; Smits, C.; Werner, K.; Fitzpatrick, G.; & Schwaninger, I. (2022) “The support needs to be part of the system” – Designing Inclusive eHealth Applications for Older Adults with Low eHealth Literacy. Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022. Proceedings, 083.
  • Prinzellner, Y.; & Simon, A. (2022). Secondary End-Users’ Perspectives on Gender Differences in the Use of eHealth Applications in Older Adults. International Conference on Gender Research. Proceedings, p. 193-199.
  • Geyer, C.; Aumayr, G.; Prinzellner, Y.; Ragab, A.; Panagiotis, P.; Giannakis, K.; Simon, A.; Agelopoulos, N.; & Liapis, A. (2021). Disabilities in Evacuation for Cruise-Ships: Leisure Lab Methodology to Support an Algorithm-driven Evacuation Prediction Model. International Conference on Computing (IEEE ICOCO 2021). Proceedings, p.252-257.
  • Prinzellner, Y., Ferner, P., Simon, A., Scheuer, S., Aumayr, G., & Peer, A. (2021). VR-Evacuation training for cruise-ships with a focus on people with disabilities. Workshop on Information and Communication Technologies (Proceedings), FESB, University of Split, ISSN 2623-7350
  • Simon, A. (2019). The Dynamics and Intersections of Gender, Disability* and Queerness in Thelma. International Conference on Gender Research. Proceedings, p. 768-XXIII.

Presentations

2025

  • Simon, A. (2025, September 29 – October 1). Grasping the Social After a Crisis – Ethical Reflections on Studying Essential Labor. Mid-Term Conference of the ESA European Sociological Association, RN 29 Social Theory and RN 20 Qualitative Methods, 'Grasping the Social: Reconnecting Sociological Theory and Qualitative Research', Passau, Germany
  • Simon, A. (2025, September 22-26). Still Moving - The Temporal Paradox of Cleaning Work during COVID-19. 42nd Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS), ‘Transitionen‘, Duisburg, Germany.
  • Simon, A. (2025, June 13). Systemrelevant und (dennoch) unsichtbar – Reinigungsarbeiten während Covid-19. Politische Einstellungen und politische Partizipation in Folge der Covid-19-Pandemie (PEPP-COV) Abschlusskonferenz, online.

2024

  • Reinigungsarbeiten während der Covid-19 Pandemie - Methodische Reflexionen auf Intersektionalität
    Sektionenkonferenz Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie "Klassen, Klassifikationen, Klassifizierungen", Osnabrück

  • Essential, Yet Overlooked - Tensions and Transformations in Cleaning Work during the height of COVID-19 in Germany
    16th Conference of the European Sociological Association "Tension, Trust and Transformation", Porto

  • Dirty duty – the transformation of care in cleaning work during the covid-19 pandemic
    EASST-4S 2024 "Making and Doing Transformations", Amsterdam

  • Transforming Spaces - The Interplay of Care, Housing, and Cleaning Work in the Pandemic Era
    International Conference Imaginaries and Strategies for Good Care and Good Housing in Times of Transformation. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna

  • The Dirty Work of Cleaning Up? Cleaning Work during the Covid-19 Pandemic
    Ring lecture "Sociological Consolidation I", LMU Munich

2023

  • Care, Corona & Transformation - (Reinigungs-) Praxis in der Krise
    21. efas (economy, feminism and science) Fachtagung, Berlin
    with Sabrina Mannebach

  • Clean Homes - An Intersectional Analysis of Housing, Cleaning and Care [Poster Presentation]
    International Conference "Housing is Caring. Housing through Gender Studies", Brussels

2022

Gender & Diversity
Eingeladener Fachvortrag im Seminar Interkulturelle Kommunikation des Studienganges Management und Digital Business bei der Fachhochschule St. Pölten.

Looks are(n’t) everything – How Beauty Boys Approach Intersectional Aspects on YouTube.
11th European Feminist Research Conference, Milan, Italy.
with Prinzellner Y.; Wetzstein, I.

Gender-differences in the use of eHealth-applications in older adults.
International Conference on Gender Research, online.
with Prinzellner, Y.

„So einfach wie möglich muss es sein!“ – eHealth Angebote für ältere Erwachsene mit geringer Gesundheitskompetenz.
Kongress Armut und Gesundheit 2022, online.
with Prinzellner, Y.; Simanko V.; Aumyar G.

2021

#gendermatters – Geschlechtersensibilität im Berufsalltag von Sanitäts- und Rettungsdiensten.
Medizinischer Fachvortrag als Fortbildung am Ausbildungszentrum der Johanniter Österreich, online.
with Prinzellner, Y.

2019

Die Dynamiken und Intersektionen von Begehren und Behinderung* im Film "Thelma"
(2017, R: Joachim Trier)“ [Konferenzbeitrag]
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung (ÖGGF) Jahrestagung 2019, Innsbruck, Österreich.

The Dynamics and Intersections of Gender, Disability* and Queerness in "Thelma".
2nd International Conference on Gender Research, Rome, Italy.

CV

since February 2023
Academic staff
LMU Munich, Department of Sociology, Chair 05, project "Corona and Care (Co-Care)"
2019
M.A. Gender Studies with focus on disability studies, queer studies, feminist media studies, and intersectionality research
University of Vienna
Charles University
2015
B.A. Art History and Sociology
University of Trier
University of Florence

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