Dr. Christoph Schlee

Christoph Schlee studied Sociology (M.A. 2015, B.A. 2012) at the University of Bamberg. During his studies he worked as a student assistant in the research project “Educational Pathways and Dropout From Higher Education”, at the Junior Professorship for Sociology with focus on educational inequalities. Additionally, he worked as a student assistant in the BiKS research project “educational processes, competence development and selection decisions in preschool- and school age”. From October 2015 to April 2018 he has worked as research associate in the international and interdisciplinary research EU-Horizon2020 project "Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe: Cumulative Disadvantage, Coping Strategies, Effective Policies and Transfer“(EXCEPT) at the University of Bamberg. Since October 2015, he has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Sociology, especially Methods of Empirical Social Research at the University of Bamberg. Since April 2020, he has also been working as a research associate at the Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Sozialstiftung Bamberg; Department of Integrative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen.

• Unemployment, Atypical Employment, Job Insecurity
• Social exclusion
• Transition from School to Work
• Social Inequality and Sociology of the Life Course
• Qualitative Research Methods, Mixed-Methods

Schlee, C., Uecker, C., Öznur, Ö., Bauer, N., & Langhorst, J. (2024). Participants’ perspectives on a multimodal stress management and comprehensive lifestyle modification program for patients with Crohn’s disease—A qualitative interview study. PLOS ONE 19(11): e0313127. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313127 

Schlee, C. (2024): Young adults’ perspectives on experiencing unemployment in Germany : insights into well-being and coping – a qualitative study, Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-98164

Bauer, N., Löffler, C., Öznur, Ö., Uecker, C., Schlee C., Adamczyk A., Elsenbruch, S., Pfuhlmann, K., Reissmann, R., Westendorf, A., Keil, T.  & Langhorst, J. (2024). Evaluation of a Multimodal Stress Management and Comprehensive Lifestyle Modification Program on Quality of Life and Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Patients with Crohn’s Disease: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial with 9-Month Follow-Up. Digestion,105(3), 201-212. https://doi.org/10.1159/000536659

Öznur Ö., Schlee C., Utz S. & Langhorst J. (2023). Investigating the Influential Factors of Mild Water-Filtered Infrared-A Whole-Body Hyperthermia for Pain Relief in Fibromyalgia: A Mixed-Methods Approach Focusing on Predictors and Patient Perspectives. Biomedicines11(11):2949. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11112949 

Bauer, N., Kairey, L., Schlee, C., Uecker, C., Öznur, Ö., & Langhorst, J. (2022). Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): results from a German nationwide survey of 2019 compared to a previous survey of 2002. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00365521.2022.2078667

Schlee, C., Uecker, C., Bauer, N., Koch, A. K., & Langhorst, J. (2022). Multimodal stress reduction and lifestyle modification program for patients with ulcerative colitis: a qualitative study. BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 22, 60, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-021-03478-w

Schlee, C., Musumeci, R., & Ghislieri, C. (2021). Experiencing unemployment and job insecurity in two European countries: German and Italian young people’s well-being and coping strategies. In M. Unt, M. Gebel, S. Bertolini, V. Deliyanni-Kouimtzi and D. Hofäcker (eds).  Social exclusion of youth in Europe. The multifaceted consequences of labour market insecurity. Bristol: The Policy Press. Chapter 5. Download

Meo, A., Ricucci, R., Schlee, C., Helemäe, J., & Kazjulja, M. (2021). The role of informal social support for young people in unemployment and job insecurity. An investigation in Italy, Estonia and Germany. In M. Unt, M. Gebel, S. Bertolini, V. Deliyanni-Kouimtzi & D. Hofäcker (eds).  Social exclusion of youth in Europe. The multifaceted consequences of labour market insecurity. Bristol: The Policy Press. Chapter 10. Download

Schlee, C. (2018). The German case. In S. Bertolini, K. Deliyanni-Kouimtzi, M. Bolzoni, C. Ghislieri, V. Goglio, S. Martino, A. Meo, V. Moiso, R. Musumeci, R. Ricucci, P.M. Torrioni, C. Athanasiades, L. Figgou, A. Flouli, M. Kostouli & M.N. Sourvinou (eds.). Labour market insecurity and social exclusion: Qualitative comparative results in nine countries, EXCEPT Working Papers, WP No. 53. Tallinn: Tallinn University.  Download

Schlee, C. (2018). Young adults in insecure labour market positions in Germany – The results from a qualitative study, EXCEPT Working Papers, WP No 19. Tallinn University, Tallinn. Download

[May 19-20, 2022] Participation at YOUNG IN WG1 Meeting  "Youth labor market vulnerability" in Lisbon and presentation on „Well-being and coping in the context of unemployment among young adults in Germany”.

[Nov 14-15, 2019] Participation at the ECSR network workshop "Labor market insecurity and health of family members" in Bamberg.

[Aug 27-30, 2017] Participation at the 6th Workshop of the EU-Horizon-2020 EXCEPT Project in Thessaloniki, Greece and presentation on "The voice of youth about policies in Germany - results from EXCEPT project".

[Feb 22-24, 2017] Participation at the 5th Workshop of the EU-Horizon-2020 EXCEPT Project at the Education Research Institute (IBE) in Warsaw, Poland and presentation on "Job insecurity and autonomy of young adults in Germany".

[Sep 21-23, 2016]Participation at the 4th workshop of the EU-Horizon-2020 project in Sofia, Bulgaria.

[Feb 24-26, 2016] Prof. Dr. Michael Gebel, Jonas Voßemer and Christoph Schlee organized the 3rd EXCEPT Workshop in Bamberg, which was attended by more than 40 international guests.

[Oct 1-3, 2015] Participation at the 2nd workshop of the EU-Horizon-2020 EXCEPT project at the University of Torino, Italy. Read more about the workshop