Research Interests

  • Sociological theory
  • Biographical research
  • Thanatology
  • Aging research
  • Qualitative social research

Media Contributions

Über falsche Symmetrien (30 August 2020)
Irmhild Saake in conversation with Florian Felix Weyh – Broadcast on Deutschlandfunk radio

Vita

2015-2017:
Editor of the journal “Soziale Welt” (Social World)
2004-2014:
Editor of the journal “Soziale Welt” (Social World)
since 05/2005:
Akademische Rätin at the Nassehi Chair, Department of Sociology, LMU
since 2000:
Academic staff at the Nassehi Chair, Department of Sociology, LMU
1999-2000:
Academic staff in the project “Images of Death” (led by Armin Nassehi)
1998-1999:
Adjunct lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Münster (research on aging, sociology of deviance)
1997-1999:
Academic staff in child and adolescent psychiatry in Hamm
1996-1997:
Lecturer in Psychology/Geragogy at the Protestant College for Geriatric Care in Münster
1994-1997:
Doctorate as a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk (Episcopal Study Foundation)
1991-1996:
Student/research assistant in the research project “Images of aging among professional caregivers in elderly care” (led by Georg Weber)
1993:
Degree in Educational Sciences (specialization: Social Pedagogy)
1986-1993:
Studies of Educational Science, Sociology, and Psychology at the Universities of Paderborn and Münster
1985 -1986:
Voluntary social year in a retirement home in Paderborn
1985:
High school diploma Pelizaeus-Gymnasium Paderborn
1965:
Born in Paderborn