Natalie Bella
Functions at the IAB
- Employee - Area Basic Income Support and Activation (GSA)
- Member - Working Group Qualitative Methods
- Member - Working Group Social protection in changing times
Professional background
Natalie Bella has been a research associate in the department Basic Income Support and Activation (GSA) since 2024. In 2026, she completed a six-month research stay in the Research Group of the Director (FGDir).
Her research focuses on qualitative methodology, translation, and the practical implementation of sanctions. Another area of focus is the implementation of new regulations in change processes.
In 2020, she began her doctoral studies in sociology as a scholarship holder at the Fulda Graduate Center of Social Sciences. There, she is investigating the organization of translation practices in multilingual research and in counseling sessions at the Jobcenter. During her doctoral studies, she participated as a external researcher in the IAB project “Networks of Arrival.”
Prior to that, she studied sociology from 2014 to 2020 at the University of Innsbruck (B.A.) and at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (M.A.). During her studies, she served, among other roles, as chair of the works council in the aviation industry. Meanwhile, she worked as a research assistant at the IAB and at the Institute of Sociology at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.