David Reimer

Home We welcome you to the 5th biannual gathering of international researchers, practitioners and experts in career guidance and transitions.

While it's still uncertain whether our study will yield generalizable effects, receiving this positive feedback meant a lot! Huge thanks to Sif Einarsdóttir for the kind invitation, and to Rie Thomsen for originally introducing me to the field of career guidance (Rie also took the picture). 3/3

One of the absolute highlights was meeting two guidance counsellors from two upper secondary schools in Iceland who implemented our role-model & career guidance intervention as part of my ERC project. Their enthusiasm and interest in the results were very encouraging. 2/3

Had a great time at the NorNet, Transitions and Career Guidance Nordic Research Conference (NoRnet 2025) in Hveragerði this week. It was a real honour to deliver a keynote on how career guidance can help reduce inequalities in education. (1/3) see nornet2025.is

Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Baden-Württemberg: Schwere IT-Panne – 1440 unbesetzte Lehrerstellen entdeckt In Baden-Württemberg sind über Jahre hinweg Hunderte Stellen für Lehrkräfte als belegt verbucht worden, die gar nicht besetzt waren. Schuld daran: ein lange zurückliegender Softwarewechsel.

ups... www.spiegel.de/panorama/bil...

How Does Culture Matter for Attainment, and How Would We Know If It Did? - David Brady, Aliza Luft, Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan, 2025 In their 2022 ASR article, Horwitz, Matheny, Laryea, and Schnabel (HMLS 2022) argue that religious subculture significantly shapes educational stratification, e...

this article is a very good corrective to cultural sociology:

Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great day at Copenhagen University. Rasmus Klokker (in the middle)successfully defended his PhD thesis on teacher sorting. Congrats!

Congrats. I need to do some serious googling in order to understand what this means though :-)

David and Thomas discuss Thomas’ recent work that examines occupational aspiration of adolescents based on PISA data. Then they talk about the topic of immigrant disadvantages in the education system – and how these disadvantages can be explained. A very informative episode 😀!

Ójöfnuður í menntun: Framtíðarsýn og áskoranir innflytjenda í atvinnumálum Í þessum nýja þætti af hlaðvarpinu tekur David Reimer viðtal við Thomas Zimmermann sem er nýdoktor við félagsfræðideild háskólans í Frankfurt.

We did another episode for the Icelandic Sociology podcast! "Inequality in education: Occupational aspirations and immigrant disadvantages" heimildin.is/spila/1072/
In this new episode of the podcast David Reimer interviews Thomas Zimmermann from Goethe University in Frankfurt.

The chapter appeared in the Handbook of Education and Work (Elgar Handbooks in Education
Edited by Maarten H.J. Wolbers and Dieter Verhaest). See: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...
PS: We have not uploaded a pre-print yet - but just email me/us if you need one.

New Handbook chapter out on Field of Study choices together with Nicolaj Borgen. We discuss some recent findings and methodological developments. Main message: Field of study choice matters for labor market outcomes! Surprise surprise :-).

Menntun og ójöfnuður Samtal við samfélagið, hlaðvarp félagsfræðinnar, snýr aftur eftir langt hlé. Við kynnum David Reimer, prófessor í félagsfræði og menntavísindum, en hann er gengin til liðs við hlaðvarpið. Í þessum þæt...

I did my first episode for the Icelandic sociology podcast. My guest was no other than the insightful Michelle Jackson from Stanford (@mivich.bsky.social). We talk about many things including Michelle's new book about developments in the division of labor. heimildin.is/spila/991/?f...

Can you spot the red cloud? Yes, another volcanic eruption. View from my office window!

It was a pleasure having you here!! Hope to have you back here soon!

Congrats to Astrid Olsen. On Monday she successfully defended her PhD thesis "The Role of Career Guidance in Reducing Access to Higher Education". It was a privilege to advise her. Thankfully we will have the opportunity to continue working together in the EDUCHANGE (www.educhange.hi.is) project.

My workday took an unexpected turn today when I came across this great report from 1977. Now I am trying to find the data. They have grand-parents, IQ-Tests. Mental Health questions...

I like this title much better. Scooter has also given us another great paper title btw: "It is nice to be important but it more important to be nice" Fill in subtitle on cooperation or whatever here!

You are thinking about a catchy title for your next paper that involves some kind of choice. Try to avoid The Clash this time...

Sometimes when I am sad, I read this review 🥲 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Just found those 2 gems in the free giveaway bookshelf in the Social Science Building (Oddi)

Sounds good. Linked google sheets?

The postdocs will be at the University of Iceland. Throughout the project period there will be plenty of opportunity to work with and visit our partners in Denmark, Germany and Hungary. Please do not hesitate to contact me (David Reimer) if you have any more questions.

Link to postdoc 1 (focus on coordination of the intervention at the transition to tertiary education)  euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/173495 
 
Link to postdoc 2 (focus on the development and evaluation of multimedia tools and content for the interventions):  euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/173494

The comparative study will be simultaneously implemented in four strategically selected countries (Denmark, Germany, Hungary, and Iceland). See www.educhange.hi.is

We are hiring two postdoctoral scholars in the ERC project EDUCHANGE in Iceland. The project is a large-scale cross-country experimental study which aims to analyze if social inequality in educational attainment can be reduced by providing students with targeted information and guidance.

We are looking to hire a research assistant asap (66%, 22 months) for the implementation of the German country study of my ERC project. The job would be at the University of Potsdam. Link to the job add is here: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Write if you need more info!