Heinz-Herbert Noll

Dr. Heinz-Herbert Noll is Director of the Social Indicators Department of the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA), Mannheim, Germany. He graduated in sociology, economics and statistics at the J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. and has received his doctorate at the University of Mannheim. He has taught sociology at the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim and courses on social indicators and social reporting at the University of Tartu and the ‘Ecole nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique’ (Paris). He is chairman of the Social Indicators Section within the German Sociological Association, vice president of the ISA Working Group „Social Indicators and Social Reporting“ and of the „International Society for Quality of Life Studies“ and a member of the editorial board of the international journal “„Social Indicators Research”. He also is co-editor of the „Datenreport“, a regular German social report, and has been the co-ordinator of the EuReporting-Project funded by the European Commission, developing a European System of Social Indicators. He has published widely on topics mainly related to social indicators, social reporting and quality of life, social inequality as well as trends of social change in international comparison. His most recent publications include “Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research: Background, Achievements and Current Trends”, in: N. Genov (ed.), Advances in Sociological Knowledge Over Half a Century, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2004; “Subjective Well-Being in the European Union During the 1990ies” (with B. Christoph), in: Social Indicators Research (2003); “Towards a European System of Social Indicators: Theoretical Framework and System Architecture”. In Social Indicators Research (2002); “Changing Structures of Inequality: A Comparative Perspective (ed. with Y. Lemel), McGill-Queens University Press 2002.