Bastian Betthaeuser

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po
  • Bastian Betthaeuser (Photo Alexis Lecomte / Sciences Po)Bastian Betthaeuser (Photo Alexis Lecomte / Sciences Po)

Contact: bastian.betthaeuser(at)sciencespo.fr
Office: B.209

Associate Member:
Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford
Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford

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PUBLICATIONS - SOCIAL MEDIA
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research interests and academic background

Bastian Betthäuser’s research focuses on social inequality, how it accumulates over the life-course, and how it is transmitted across generations. More specifically, he investigates (1) how different dimensions of individuals’ socio-economic background shape their early childhood development, education, labour market position, and life chances, (2) through which micro-level mechanisms these different social background characteristics affect important social outcomes and (3) whether and how education and labour market policies and social interventions at the meso- and macro-level can limit the extent to which individuals’ life chances depend on their social background.

Dernières publications - Latest Publication

CONTRATS DE RECHERCHE - FUNDED PROJECTS

LEARN - Understanding the Consequences of Health Crises for Education: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic, ERC Started Grant 2024.
Health crises, natural disasters, and violent conflicts increasingly threaten children’s educational development. Such disruptive events are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change and the growing instability of the global security architecture. But we lack a systematic understanding of how major disruptive events affect children’s educational development, largely because such events tend to also disrupt the collection of high-quality data on children’s education. Because of the global scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and extensive data collection efforts as it unfolded, the COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of the consequences of major health crises for children’s educational development.

The LEARN project will leverage this opportunity to provide a systematic account of how the pandemic has affected the educational development of children in different world regions. To this end, LEARN will generate and apply high-quality, cross-national data and advanced quantitative and meta-analytical techniques. This research programme aims to substantially improve our understanding of how large health crises affect children’s educational development and provide a basis for policy makers to future-proof education systems to meet the growing threats posed by major disruptive events.

ENSEIGNEMENTS - TEACHING

  • 2022, Sociology of Education. Course for the Bachelor of Arts at the Sciences Po Undergraduate College.
  • 2022, Sociology of Social Inequality. Course for the Bachelor of Arts at the Sciences Po Undergraduate College. 
  • 2017-2021, Comparative Education Policy. Course for the M.Sc. in Comparative Social Policy Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford (Developed and taught course for three consecutive years).
  • 2020, Introduction to Social Policy. Course for the B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE), B.A. in History and Politics, and the B.A. in Human Sciences, University of Oxford (Designed and delivered lectures).
  • 2019, Master Class in Sociology. Workshop for PhD Candidates in Sociology. Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) Radboud University Nijmegen (Developed and taught jointly with Prof. Janne Jonsson).
  • 2017, Quantitative Research Methods. Course for the M.Sc. in Comparative Social Policy Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford (Taught jointly with Prof. Erzsébet Bukodi).
  • 2015-2017, Social Policy in the 21st Century. Course for the Master of Public Policy (MPP) Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (Developed and taught for three consecutive years, jointly with Prof. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser).
  • 2014, Evidence & Evaluation. Seminar for the Master of Public Policy (MPP)  Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford  (Developed and taught seminars).
  • 2013, Social Policy and Welfare States in the 21st Century. International Online Course Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford (Designed online course).
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