Deputy directress:
Ellen Hilf

Finance:
Dr. Hans-Werner Franz

Scientific management:
Dr. Heike Jacobsen

Research on European issues/infrastructure:
Antonius Schröder

Research Units
The scientific work of Sozialforschungsstelle Dortmund is organised in seven interdisciplinary research units:

• Organisational Development and Consulting in the Network Economy
  Co-ordinator: Dr. Ralf Kopp 
• Services and Societal Change
  Co-ordinator: Dr. Edelgard Kutzner
• Education, Work and Participation
  Co-ordinator: Birgit Klein
• Primary Labour Policy and Health
  Co-ordinator: Arno Georg
• European Labour Policies
  Co-ordinator: Antonius Schröder
• Sustainable Shaping of Technology and Organisation
  Co-ordinator: Jürgen Schultze
• Agency for the co-operation between Science and Labour (“KoWA”)
  Co-ordinator: Dr. Klaus Kock

Funding
Sozialforschungsstelle receives an annual core funding of about EUR 1,3 Mio. from the federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia/the University of Dortmund. A large majority of the annual budget is acquired from third parties via external research projects and the consulting market, in 2006 EUR 2,5 Mio. came from external sources.