TOMAS KÖNIG
Education:
Ph.D.
Graduate Studies in Sociology at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of California at San Diego and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. Thesis: The New Age Movement: Genesis of a High Volume, Low Impact Identity
Supervisors: Klaus Eder and Akos Rona-Tas
Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze, Italia

MA
Social Sciences (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Current academic post / related positions:
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Research Associate, Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Foreign languages:
German: mother tongue; French, Italian: reading knowledge
Current research projects and activities:
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The Discourse of on the EU Constititution in the UK, Germany and Slovenia
Semi-Automated Text Analysis
State Responses to New Religions in Europea and North America
The Role of Popular Music  in the Reconstruction of German Identity

Selected recent publications:
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(2006). Compounding Mixed-Method Problems in Frame Analysis through Comparative Research, Qualitative Research 6 (1): 61-76.
- (2006). Nationalization vs. Europeanization vs. Globalization of Issues that Should Belong to the European Public Sphere (with John Downey). European Journal of Communication 20 (6).
- (2005). Frame Analysis: An Introduction, ESRC Methods Resources, http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/publications/frameanalysis/
- (2005). "Routinizing Frame Analysis", Proceedings of the ISA RC-33 Methodology Conference, Leverkusen: Leske & Budrich [CD-ROM].
- (2004). The Wow Factor: Preconceptions and Expectations for Data Analysis Software in Qualitative Research (with Katie MacMillan). Social Science Computer Review 22 (2): 179-186.
- (2004). CAQDAS in der Frame Analysis, in: Udo Kuckartz et al.. Qualitative Datenanalyse: computergestützt, Wiesbaden, Germany: VdS, pp. 89-96.
- (2004). Pristup mešovitim metodom analizi okvira, Digitalni žurnal za sociologiju 3.