I am an ESRC-funded DPhil candidate in Sociology at Nuffield College under the supervision of Nan Dirk de Graaf. I am broadly interested in questions about social integration, social cohesion, and social inequalities. In my dissertation research, I investigate involvement in civic organizations (e.g., sports clubs, cultural associations) in Germany and the Netherlands. More specifically, I investigate to which extent they promote intergroup contact and how segregation tendencies are locking their integrative potential. In this context, I focus on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and gender as key dimensions for social differentiation. Several of my dissertation chapters have been published in journals such as Social Networks, Gender & Society, and European Sociological Review. Following up on my DPhil research, I am currently involved in the collection of novel experimental data which is funded by an ODISSEI-LISS grant (together with Dingeman Wiertz and Jochem Tolsma). 

Another part of my research studies the formation of interethnic unions, which I started during a research visit at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute and Utrecht University. Together with Frank van Tubergen, I leverage register data to analyze the partner choices among the second generation.

Next to my research, I taught tutorials and seminars on Introduction to Sociology, Sociological Theory, and Introductory Statistics.

Prior to starting my DPhil at the University of Oxford, I graduated from the University of Cologne in Germany with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Social Sciences and Sociology, respectively. During this time, I visited the universities of Groningen and Oxford for one semester each and worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne.

You can find more information on my personal website https://kasimirdederichs.github.io/ and my google scholar profile Google Scholar profile.