Department of Sociology and Social Psychology (DSS)

Dr. Emilia Kmiotek-Meier

Research focuses

• Higher Education
• Transitions / Life Course
• Methods (qualitative & quantitative)
• Data Visualization
• Statistical Education

Curriculum vitae

• 2024 - ongoing: Lead Researcher | Project "Transitions of International Students into German Labor Market" | International Office | University of Cologne
• 2021 - ongoing: Researcher & Lecturer in Empirical Methods | Department for Sociology and Social Psychology | University of Cologne
• 2019 - 2023: Lead Researcher | Project "Successfully on the Job Market" | ProfessionalCenter, University of Cologne
• 2019: Doctorate in Social Sciences (Docteur en sciences sociales) | University of Luxembourg
• 2015 - 2019: Researcher | Project "MOVE: Mapping mobility - pathways, institutions and structural effects of youth mobility in Europe" (Horizon2020) | Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning & Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Work, Social Pedagogy and Social Welfare | University of Luxembourg
• 2014 - 2015: Researcher & Coordinator of "Graduate Studies" | Central Evaluation of Studies and Teaching & University Research | University of Cologne
• 2013: Magister's degree (eq. Master) | Sociology (major), Scandinavian Studies and Western Slavic Studies (minors) | University of Cologne

Selected publications

• Kmiotek-Meier, E. (2025). Study abroad on the threshold of adulthood. Organization and significance of study abroad among credit and degree students from Luxembourg. Melusina Press: Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg.10.26298/1981-5517
• Kmiotek-Meier, E., Rossié, T. & Canora, K. (2024). All good things come in threes - required skill sets in the graduate labor market in Germany In: Education + Training, 66(10).10.1108/ET-04-2023-0122
• Kmiotek-Meier, E., & Powell, J.J.W. (2023). Evaluating universal student mobility: contrasting policy discourse and student narratives in Luxembourg. In: International Studies in Sociology of Education, 32(2), 466-486.10.1080/09620214.2021.2007416
• Kmiotek-Meier, E., Bredendiek, M. & Hoffmann, L. (2022).The things we (might) lose. Content and context of online learning in times of COVID-19.In: Burgsteiner, H. & G. Krammer.(eds.), Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic's Distance Learning on Students and Teachers in Schools and in Higher Education - International Perspectives(15-37).10.56560/isbn.978-3-7011-0496-3_2
• Samuk, S., Nienaber, B., Kmiotek-Meier, E., Vysotskaya, V., Skrobanek, J., Ardic, T., Pavlova, 1., Marinescu, D., & Muresan, L. (2021). Learning in Transition: Erasmus+ as an Opportunity for lnternationalization. In D. Cairns (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration(173-184). Palgrave Macmillan.10.1007/978-3-030-64235-8
• Kmiotek-Meier, E., Karl, U. & Powell, J.J.W. (2020). Designing the (Most) Mobile University: The Centrality of International Student Mobility in Luxembourg's Higher Education Policy Discourse. Higher Education Policy, 33, 21-44.10.1057/s41307-018-0118-4 Plasa, T., Ebert, A., Kmiotek-Meier, E. & Schmatz, R. (2019).Generic competencies of university graduates. In: Quality in Science,13(2), 48-56.
• Kmiotek-Meier, E., Skrobanek, J., Nienaber, B., Vysotskaya, V., Samuk, S., Ardic, T., Pavlova, 1., Dabasi-Halazs, Z., Diaz, C., Bissinger, J., Schlimbach, T. & Horvath, K. (2019).Why is it so hard? And for whom? Obstacles to intra-European mobility. Migration Letters, 16(7), 37-44.10.33182/ml.v16i1.627
• Kmiotek-Meier, E. & Karl, U. (2017). Being forced? Getting far? Speaking the language? What matters in the process of going abroad as a student? Ter es Tarsadalom (Space and Society)Landmann, M., Kmiotek-Meier, E., Lachmann, D. & Lorenz, J. (2015). Three methods, four outcomesi How to test the reliability and validity of a graduate survey competence scale. In: J., Huisman & M., Tight (Eds.), Theory and Method in Higher Education Research. Volume 7 (719-139). Emerald.10.1108/s2056-375220150000001006