Prof. Dr. Ellen Kollender

Ellen Kollender is a Professor of Inclusion and Diversity at the Institute of Social Work and Social Education at the University of Lüneburg. Her work focuses on:

- Racism, intersectionality and institutional discrimination

- Pedagogical professionalisation in the context of inequality in the migration society

- School development in the context of current forced migrations

- Parents' experiences of discrimination at school and in the migration society

- Processes of economisation in the educational system

- Concepts and theories of anti-discrimination, educational justice and democratic participation

- Civil society resistance, transnational solidarity and social movements

- Methods of qualitative social research, especially discourse, dispositive and subjectivisation research 

POSITIONS (SELECTION)

- Since 4/2024: Professor (W1) for "Inclusion and Diversity", Leuphana University Lüneburg, Faculty of Education

- 5/2022 - 3/2024: Associate Professor (W3) for "Heterogeneity", RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Faculty of Education

- 1/2021 - 4/2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Intercultural and International Comparative Education, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

- 9/2019 - 12/2020: Mercator Fellow at Sabancı University Istanbul (Turkey)

- 4/2016 - 8/2019: Research Assistant at the Department of Intercultural and International Comparative Educational Research, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

- 4/2012 - 3/2016: Doctoral fellow at the Hans Böckler Foundation