Dr. Julia Gruhlich

Dr. Julia Gruhlich (she/her) is head of the DFG research network MoDi. She is a senior researcher in gender studies at the University of Göttingen and project leader within the European research project „SMARTUP: Smart(ening up the modern) home – Redesigning power dynamics through domestic space digitalisation” at the Diversity Research Institute, University of Göttingen. She studied Ethnology and Philosophy at the Universities of Mainz, Montpellier and Prague and holds a PhD in Sociology. Her research interests focus on gender, work and organisation, and she has researched the transnationalisation of multinational corporations, diversity management, women in leadership positions, career failure, downshifting and the transformation of masculinities at work. Her methodological interests include qualitative research, praxeology, feminist methodologies and transnational intersectionality in work and organisational studies. Her recent research projects explore the digital transformation of work and care in agriculture and in smart homes.