Roles at the University of Oldenburg:

From 2024: Project management for the ‘Framework agreement on the design, implementation and monitoring of online continuing professional development courses to support studies and research for students and PhD candidates from sub-Saharan Africa’ (DAAD);

From 2020: Project coordination Digital Initiative for the Centres of African Excellence – DIGIFACE / www.digiface.org, DAAD Centres of Excellence Programme)

From 2014: Project coordination East and South African-German Centre of Excellence for Educational Research Methodologies and Management – CERM-ESA (www.cermesa.uni-oldenburg.de, DAAD Centre of Excellence Programme)

2016–2020: PhD on the topic: Diversity and Education in Postcolonial School Contexts – A Grounded Theory Study Based in Kenya (published in AFRICAN MINDS: www.africanminds.co.za/positioning_diversity_kenyan_schools )

2009–2014: Project coordinator for ‘Developing Sustainability & Climate Proofing of Vulnerable Regions’, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research – COAST (DAAD subject-specific partnerships) (uol.de/coast/forschungsprojekte/projekt-database#cprojekte )

2007–2008: Managing Director of the Centre for South–North Educational Cooperation – co-operation projects with Nelson Mandela University and the University of Dar es Salaam, School of Education and Social Sciences

2004: Diplom in Intercultural Education (University of Oldenburg)

Educational research and pedagogy in African contexts

• Diversity, gender & climate change in schools and curricula
• Critical thinking, creativity and problem solving in school curricula
• North-South university cooperation, transformation & engagement

Du Plooy, B., & Von Moellendorff, M. (2024). "Our Theatre is Society": Perceptions and Practices of University-Based African Centres of Excellence Regarding Community Engagement and the Third Mission of Higher Education. South African Journal of Higher Education, 38(2), 99-119.

Webb, P., von Moellendorff, M., Speck, K., Namubiru, P., Chang'ach, J., Kurgat, S., ... & Eastwood, K. (2024). Student Teachers' Critical Thinking Beliefs and Abilities in South and East Africa: Transitioning from Quantitative Description to Qualitative Implications for Social Change. Educational Research for Social Change, 13(2), 171-196.

von Möllendorff, M. (2022). Positioning Diversity in Kenyan Schools: Teaching in the Face of Inequality and Discrimination (p. 286). African Minds.

Kindiki, J. N., von Möllendorff, M., Speck, K., & Webb, P. (2019). African-German Cooperation towards Decolonising Higher Education: CERM-ESA Approaches and Lessons Learnt. ZEP: Journal of International Education Research and Development Education, 42(2), 11-15.

von Möllendorff, M., Kurgat, S., & Speck, K. (2017). East and South African-German Centre of Excellence for Educational Research Methodologies and Management (CERM-ESA). A case for internationalisation and higher education engagement. Educational Research for Social Change, 6(1), 93-99

von Möllendorff, M. (2005). Children organise themselves! On the role of adult coordinators in the South African children's movement. BIS-Verlag Publishing House, Oldenburg