Research interests

• 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

Curriculum

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
• Member of the advisory board for quality assurance "Learning and Migration" of "SchlaU-Werkstatt für Migrationspädagogik"

Current editorial activities

• ‘Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue’, head of the department ‘Education and Upbringing in Migrant Societes’ (Julius Klinkhardt, with Aysun Doğmuş)