Kai Mühleck works at DZHW since 2008. He is senior researcher of the research area "Educational Careers and Graduate Employment". His research focusses on the topics of scientific careers, tracking of graduates, monetary and non-monetary returns to education, gender differences, social inequality, and cross-country comparisons. Before joining DZHW he worked as a researcher at Humboldt-University in Berlin (2001-2008). He holds a doctorate in sociology from Humboldt-University (2007) and studied political science, sociology, and economics at the universities of Heidelberg and Manchester, graduating from Heidelberg in 2001 (M.A.).

Dr. Kai Mühleck
Research area Educational Careers and Graduate Employment
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Perspektiven des Forschungsclusters Bildungserträge – Inhaltliches Update 2020 und Planung für 2021.
Perspektiven des Forschungsclusters Bildungserträge – Inhaltliches Update 2020 und Planung für 2021. Workshop des Forschungsclusters "Erträge tertiärer Bildung", DZHW, Hannover. |
Is a same-sex advisor beneficial for doctoral students? Challenging the intuition!Mühleck, K., & Schwabe, U. (2020, Oktober).Is a same-sex advisor beneficial for doctoral students? Challenging the intuition! Vortrag beim Workshop "Causality in the Social Sciences II", Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung und Akademie für Soziologie, Hannover. |
Final report of the Commission expert group on graduate tracking. Statement of the EUROGRADUATE Consortium.Mühleck, K., Meng, C., & Unger, M. (2020, September).Final report of the Commission expert group on graduate tracking. Statement of the EUROGRADUATE Consortium. Vortrag auf dem Abschlusstreffen der Commission expert group on graduate tracking, Europäische Kommission, Brüssel, Belgien. |
Does a Gender-Match of Advisor and Doctoral Student Foster a Scientific Career?Mühleck, K. (2020, März).Does a Gender-Match of Advisor and Doctoral Student Foster a Scientific Career? Vortrag im Research Seminar der Abteilung "Bildungsverläufe und Beschäftigung" des Deutschen Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW), DZHW, Hannover. |
How does higher education foster active citizenship? Qualities of higher education and the political participation of graduates.Mühleck, K., & Oelker, S. (2019, November).How does higher education foster active citizenship? Qualities of higher education and the political participation of graduates. Vortrag auf dem Workshop "Higher Education and Civic Participation", Forschungscluster "Erträge tertiärer Bildung" des Deutschen Zentrums für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung, DZHW, Hannover. |
Analysis of the feasibility of a full roll out of a European graduate survey.Mühleck, K., & Oelker, S. (2019, Juni).Analysis of the feasibility of a full roll out of a European graduate survey. Vortrag auf dem 3. Treffen der Commission expert group on graduate tracking, Europäische Kommission, Brüssel, Belgien. |
Gender differences in higher education from a life course perspective: Transitions and social inequality between enrolment and first post-doc position.Lörz, M., & Muehleck, K. (2018, September).Gender differences in higher education from a life course perspective: Transitions and social inequality between enrolment and first post-doc position. Vortrag auf dem 1st Forum Higher Education and the Labour Market (HELM), Nürnberg. |
The "Student Life Cycle" - A New Panel Study for the Research in Higher Education.Jungbauer-Gans, M., Carstensen, J., Muehleck, K., & Lang, S. (2017, September).The "Student Life Cycle" - A New Panel Study for the Research in Higher Education. Posterpräsentation auf dem 25th Annual Workshop of the European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TIY), Brüssel, Belgien. |
Gender differences in higher education from a life course perspective: Transitions and social inequality between enrolment and first post-doc position.Lörz, M., & Muehleck, K. (2017, August/September).Gender differences in higher education from a life course perspective: Transitions and social inequality between enrolment and first post-doc position. Posterpräsentation auf der ECSR 2017 Conference "Institutions, Inequality and Social Dynamics", Mailand, Italien. |