Professorship of Art Education and Art Mediation, Institute of Art and Visual Culture, School III

0441 798-2928

Research focus:

• Inclusion and exclusion from a difference theory perspective
• Art education ability norms and performance regulations
• Art education and art mediation in a culture of digitality
• Practical professionalisation research in art education and art mediation
• Cooperative relationships between art education and art mediation actors
• Intersectional sensitivity

Ongoing projects:

• Poetries of Resistance and Hope. Hegemony-critical poetry as an educational moment in marginalised communities (2026-2027), Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser and Prof. Dr Alisha Heinemann (University of Bremen), research funding within the framework of the Northwest Alliance, funding line Now Advanced
• Achievement: A Social Practice in Primary School Classroom (2025-2028), Prof Dr Michaela Kaiser and Prof. Dr Simone Seitz (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Digitisation-related and digitally supported professionalisation of sports, music and art teachers (DigiProSMK) (2023-2026), project as part of the BMBFSFJ funding measure Competence centres for digital and digitally supported teaching in schools. Centre of Excellence for artistic-creative subjects and sport
• CoP 4: Ecological concern (2023-2026), VR learning space as part of DigiProSMK
• CoP 5: From image to platform (2023-2026) within the framework of DigiProSMK

Activities (selection):

• Vice Director for Research at the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ) together with Prof. Dr Till-Sebastian Idel
• Spokesperson for the Futures of Care in Education research cluster together with Prof Dr Till-Sebastian Idel
• Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity

Link to the working group

Professorship of Educational Science specialising in School Pedagogy and General Didactics, Institute of Educational Sciences, School I

0441 798- 4387

Research focus:

• Design, change and reform of teaching, schools and pedagogical professionalism,
• Interaction between teachers and their pupils

Ongoing projects:

• Digitalisationdigitisation-related and digitally supported schooll(culture) development through Multiprofessional Kooperation at all-day primary schools (DigischuKuMPK) (2023-2026), end of project as part of the BMBFSFJ funding measureCentre of Excellence for School Development

Activities (selection):

• Vice Director for Research at the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ) together with Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser
• Co-speaker of the Futures of Care in Education research cluster together with Prof Dr Michaela Kaiser
• Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity
• Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning

Link to the working group

Professorship of American Literary and Cultural Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, School III

0441 798-2320

Research focus:

• popular culture, specifically on forms and figures of cultural mobility in North- and Inter-American as well as Transatlantic contexts
• digital media cultures
• the production of future imaginaries in popular narratives

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Education
• Participation in the research cluster Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning
• Director of the Scientific Centre Genealogy of the Present (WiZeGG)
• Co-speaker of the MWK doctoral programme Shaping the Future. Transformation of the present through scenarios of digitalisation (2019 - 2024)
• Speaker of the MWK doctoral programme Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen (MIGG) (2016 - 2020)
• Spokesperson of the MWK doctoral programme Cultures of Participation (2014 - 2018)

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Professorship of Music Education with a focus on transcultural music education, Institute of Music, School III

0441 798-2323

Research focus:

• Music education,
• transcultural music education,
• connections between music and politics,
• cultural and musicological research on jazz and popular music

Ongoing projects:

• Recomposing the Black Box: Critical Digital Education through AI-Powered Music Generation (RECOMPOSE) (2026-2029), booster unit as part of the MWK funding programme Strategically Developing Potentials
• Digital Cultural Heritage of Our Time. Developing a Circulatory System for User Generated Content between the Web Archive of the German National Library and Music Education (DiCHOT) (2025-2030), joint project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, funding line "Change! Fellowships"
• Digitality - Diversity - Producing: Practices of popular music in schools and further education(DiDiPro) (2023-2026), joint project as part of the BMBFSFJ funding measure Competence Centres for Digital and Digitally Supported Teaching in Schools. Centre of Excellence for artistic-creative subjects and sport

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Education
• Spokesperson for the Intersectional Sensitivity research cluster together with Prof Dr Ulla Licandro
• Participation in the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040 (2020 - 2024)

Link to the working group

Professorship for Digital Education in Schools, Institute of Educational Sciences, School I

0441 798-2900

Research focus:

• Digital culture and school
• Investigating the social dimensions of "digital education" and educational technologies using ethnographic, qualitative and speculative methods
• Socio-political, ethical and pedagogical implications of the design of educational media and infrastructures (EdTech)
• Relationship between educational media and inequality/inequity
• Design justice in research and development of educational technologies, especially in "AI" systems

Ongoing projects:

• Recomposing the Black Box: Critical Digital Education through AI-Powered Music Generation (RECOMPOSE) (2026-2029), booster unit as part of the MWK funding programme Strategically Unleashing Potentials
• Re:Lab, Praxis Lab for Reimagining EdTech Futures (2024-2029), funded by the MWK as part of the digitisation professorships (EUR 1,616,000)

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the Futures of Care in Education research cluster

Link to the working group

Professorship of Art History with a focus on Gender Studies, Institute of Art and Visual Culture, School III

0441 798-4918

Research focus:

• Gender studies in art and cultural studies
• Art history and art theories of the 19th to 21st centuries
• Visual culture studies, garden, queer ecologies, new materialism
• Class issues in art and visual culture, theories of affect
• Queer theory, porn studies, film theory
• Artistic-educational and curatorial project work

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Education
• Co-direction of the DFG network "Interdisciplinary Pornography Research" (2026-2028, Head: Dr Leonie Zilch)

Link to the working group

Professorship of Educational Science specialising in Educational Trajectories and Diversity, Department A: General Educational Science, Faculty 12 - Educational Sciences, University of Bremen

Office Heinemann: 0421 218-66290 (Britta Weining)

Research focus:

• Critical diversity research, esp.
  • Critical vocational training
  • Critical adult education
• Postcolonial theories in educational science
• Pedagogical professionalism in the migration society
• German as another language
• Multilingual classrooms
• Transition from school to academic appointment

Ongoing projects:

• Poetries of Resistance and Hope. Poetry critical of hegemony as an educational moment in marginalised communities (2026-2027), Prof. Dr Michaela Kaiser and Prof. Dr Alisha Heinemann (University of Bremen), research funding as part of the Northwest Alliance, Now Advanced funding line
• Learning game on financial education for immigrants - difference-sensitive, multilingual, career-orientated (FinDMB)(2025-2028), sub-project of the joint project MetaFin as part of the BMBFframework programmeEmpirical educational research programme, meta-project of this funding line for financial education research

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Education

Link to the working group

Professorship of General Educational Science with a focus on Educational Theory, Department A: General Educational Science, Faculty 12 - Educational Sciences, University of Bremen

0421 218-69100

Office Rose: 0421 218-69027 (Marion Franzen)

(Marion Franzen)

Research focus:

• Education and discourse theory:

Subjectivisation and educational processes

• Migration and inequality research:

  Discrimination, racism, production as "other", class relations, post- and decolonial perspectives

• Qualitative methods:

  Biographical research, ethnography and videography, discourse analysis, address analysis

Ongoing projects:

• Pilot study for the research project Children's Belongings and Citizenship (belong*child). A qualitative empirical study on orders of difference and belonging in middle and late childhood, Prof. Dr Nadine Rose (University of Bremen), Prof. Dr Claudia Machold (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Dr Anne Otzen (University of Bremen)

Completed projects:

• The linguistic nature of recognition: Empirical reconstructions of addressing processes in secondary school teaching from a subjectivation theory perspective (2013-2017) , Prof. Dr Norbert Ricken (Ruhr University Bochum) and Prof. Dr Nadine Rose (University of Bremen), German Research Foundation (DFG)

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Education
• Member of the DFG network "Educational Science Subjectivation Research" (NES) (2020-2025, Head: Dr Karen Geipel)

Link to the working group

Research assistant at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture for the further development of the Research Academy of the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ) - From 01.04.2026 to 31.03.2027 on special leave due to the administrative professorship at the HBK Braunschweig; Substitute: M.A. Sarah Volknant

0531 391-9143

Research focus:

• Art education, art mediation and inclusion
• Post-digital (youth) cultural education processes, co-creation as an aesthetic-didactic principle
• Art didactics and mediation in the context of theories of care
• Development of inclusive, historically aware and difference-sensitive learning and mediation formats
• Non-conformist art education in the GDR using qualitative interview research, post-socialist studies
• Visual culture studies, art and visual studies, art and cultural theory; transcultural and feminist art history(ies) of the 20th and 21st centuries
• Artistic research, artistic epistemologies, curatorial fields of action

Ongoing projects:

• Research on sustainable professionalisation formats as part of the joint project Digitalisation-related and digitally supported professionalisation of sports, music and art teachers (DigiProSMK) (2023-2026), project as part of the BMBFSFJ funding measure Competence centres for digital and digitally supported teaching in schools. Centre of Excellence for artistic-creative subjects and sport
• CoP 4: Ecological concern (2023-2026), VR learning space as part of DigiProSMK with the artists Kat Austen, Daniel Hengst and Du Zhang and with the art mediator Chantal Küng

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Education
• Founder and co-director of the nomadic video art platform D'EST

Link to the working group in Braunschweig

Link to the working group in Oldenburg

Research assistant at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture for the further development of the Research Academy of the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ)

Substitute for Dr Ulrike Gerhardt from 01.04.26 to 31.03.27.

0441 798-4176

Research focus:

• Intersectional sensitivity in teacher education
• Professionalisation of prospective teachers in the context of inclusion and exclusion
• Linguistic diversity in schools from an intersectional perspective
• Difference-theoretical and care-orientated perspectives on education

Activities (selection):

• Participation in the research cluster Futures of Care in Education
• Participation in the research cluster Intersectional Sensitivity
• Doctorate as part of the Research Training Group Teacher Education 2040 (2020 - 2024)

Link to the working group in the Didactic Centre

Link to the working group in art education and mediation