Tim Seidenschnur is a research associate in the DFG-funded project "Multiple competition in research and teaching: South Korea and the USA as international comparative cases" and is coordinating the DFG research group “Multiple Competition in the Higher Education”. From April 2024 to February 2025, he held the deputy professorship “Higher Education Research” at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel. From 2021 to 2024 he has already coordinated the DFG research group “Multiple Competition in the Higher Education” and was a research associate in the project “Multiple Competition in Research and Teaching”. From 2018 to 2021, Tim Seidenschnur was coordinator of the research focus Governance and Organization at INCHER. Before he was a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken in the DFG-funded project ‘Legitimation of Management Consulting in Different Institutional Contexts’ (LegU). The LegU project took place in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Rick Vogel and Julia Galwa from the University of Hamburg. Before Tim Seidenschnur worked on the LegU project at INCHER, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Special Sociology at the University of Würzburg and as a lecturer at the Chair of Macrosociology at the University of Kassel. Tim Seidenschnur completed his doctorate in 2012 on the topic of "contextual anti-Semitism" under Prof. Dr. Heinz Bude in Kassel. Since then, his research interests have focused on sociological theory, particularly organizational sociology and higher education research.
competition, legitimacy, consulting and the role of crises in various higher education systems
