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Email

jzinn@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
T R Ashworth Professor in Sociology
School of Social and Political Sciences
Education
Doctorate (Research)
Universitaet Bremen
Masters (Coursework & Research)
Universitaet Bielefeld
ORCID

0000-0002-4992-9123

Prof Jens O. Zinn

T R Ashworth Professor in Sociology
School of Social and Political Sciences

137 Scholarly works
6 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    The mixed blessing of shifting responsibilities: Challenges for introducing compulsory elemental insurance in Germany
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105670
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Prognostic Practices and Normalism in Pandemic Discourse in Britain and Germany – A case study on Covid-19
    DOI: 10.18573/jcads.139
  • 2025

    Journal article

    The Australian housing affordability trap – How environmental, institutional, and structural factors can immobilize Australian households in the face of extreme weather events – A case study on flooding
    DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2025.100713
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Versicherungen gegen Naturgefahren und die Notwendigkeit zur Verantwortungsteilung
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-70588-9_23
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Shifting risks back to the state? Flood insurance and responsibility in the face of climate change in Australia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104874
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Risk-taking and social inequality
    DOI: 10.1177/14407833231162865
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Thoughts about intersectionality and risk. Interviews with key scholars
    DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2024.2340027
Jens O. Zinn

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2023
Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg / Institute for Advanced Study
2015
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
2015
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Zweite Moderne und Risikogesellschaft
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-37218-7_10
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Rationalization, enchantment, and subjectivation–lessons for risk communication from a New Phenomenology of everyday reasoning
    DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2024.2328195
  • 2024

    Book Chapter

    Reflexive modernization and risk society
    DOI: 10.4337/9781803921044.ch83

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2015

    Research Contracts

    Evaluation of Tech Savvy Seniors (Victoria)
  • 2013

    Internal Research Grant

    Health and Wellbeing in Broadband-Enabled Greenfield Communities
  • 2014

    Research Contracts

    Evaluation of Tech Savvy Seniors Program
  • 2009

    Research Contracts

    Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research
  • Internal Research Grant

    Risk, Social Inclusion and the Life Course - A Social Policy Perspective

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