Prof. Dr Olivia Spiegler is a psychologist who earned her diploma from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (2010) and her PhD from Ruhr-University Bochum (2016) for work on the cultural and social integration of Turkish migrants in Europe. She has held research and teaching posts at Ruhr-University Bochum, FernUniversität Hagen, and the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology.
Before joining the Department of Sociology in 2025, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the IntegrateYouth project (PI Jan O. Jonsson) and a Research Fellow at Nuffield College. In 2023 she became Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Applied Sciences in Göttingen.
Her research on intergroup contact and intergroup relations has been supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Feodor Lynen Fellowship and a Leverhulme Trust grant.
Research interests: cultural integration, social integration, intergroup relations, intergroup contact, attitudes and attitude change, ethnic/racial identity, social inequality, youth wellbeing, diversity, quantitative methods
