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)

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