Biography
Katharina Stückradt is a sociologist whose research focuses on societal inequality and the policies that shape it. Her work spans two interconnected domains: the organizational contexts in which workplace inclusion, diversity, and discrimination unfold, and the broader political and institutional forces that generate and sustain inequality across different spheres of social life.
In her dissertation, Katharina examines how organizational contexts condition experiences of workplace inclusion, diversity, and discrimination. To investigate these questions, she employs both experimental and survey methods. A particular methodological contribution of her dissertation is the development of an original conjoint experiment, designed to investigate support for organizational hiring policies that shape inclusion.
At the EUI, Katharina is a postdoctoral researcher in the LEARN project, where she investigates the effects of educational funding on educational inequality. To trace how funding shapes educational inequality over time, she draws on longitudinal data.
Across both research strands, Katharina is driven by her interest in inequality and politics. She is interested in how institutional designs, organizational contexts, and policies combine to reproduce or disrupt social stratification.
Katharina is completing her PhD in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, where she will defend her dissertation in October 2026. During her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the MIT Sloan School’s Institute for Work and Employment Research, and the European University Institute. She holds a master's degree in Sociology and Social Research from Utrecht University.