Ali Simon, M.A.
Academic staff
Department of Sociology
Co-Care
Office address:
Konradstr. 6
Room 110
80801 Munich
Office hours:
by appointment only
Primary research interests
- Care work
- Crises
- Dirty work
- Qualitative methods
- Gender / Queer studies
Publications
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
- 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
- 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
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.
#gendermatters – Geschlechtersensibilität im Berufsalltag von Sanitäts- und Rettungsdiensten.
Medizinischer Fachvortrag als Fortbildung am Ausbildungszentrum der Johanniter Österreich, online.
with Prinzellner, Y.
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.
Curriculum Vitae
- 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