Prof. Dr. Ellen Kollender

Vita
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:
- Education and upbringing in the context of forced/migration, nationhood and transnationalisation
- Racism, intersectionality and institutional discrimination
- Pedagogical professionalism and anti-discriminatory school development in migration societies
- Concepts and theories of inclusion, anti-discrimination and anti-racism
- Economisation processes in the discursive field of forced/migration and education
- Methods and methodologies of qualitative social 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
Networking
- Since 2024: Network for Gender and Diversity Research at Leuphana University
- Since 2020: Network for Refugee Studies
- Since 2020: Council for Migration
- Since 2019: German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), Commission on “Education and Training in the Migration Society” and Commission on “Social Pedagogy”
- Since 2019: European Educational Research Association (EERA), Network “Social Justice and Intercultural Education”
Reviewer activities (selection)
- Berlin Senate Department for Integration, Labor, and Social Affairs
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- European Educational Research Journal
- GENDER – Journal for Gender, Culture and Society
- Global Center for Pluralism Canada
- International Journal of Comparative Sociology
- Race, Ethnicity and Education
- Tertium Comparationis
- World Education Research Conference
- Journal for Migration Research in Educational Science
- Journal for Pedagogy
Current consulting activities
- Trusted lecturer at the Hans Böckler Foundation
- Member of the Expert Advisory Board on Equity in Schools and Education at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs.
- Member of the expert group at the Migrant Parents Network Lower Saxony
Current editorial activities
- ‘Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue’, head of the department ‘Education and Upbringing in Migrant Societes’ (Julius Klinkhardt, with Aysun Doğmuş)