Prof Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke
Prof Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke
News
New Releases
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke (2026): When pupils ask questions. Pupil-initiated steps as exceptional events in classroom discourse. In: Behrens, Ulrike/Carl, Mark-Oliver/Kreuz, Judith/Magirius, Marco (eds.): The potential of oral communication in German lessons – across all areas of competence. SLLD-B – Linguistic and Literary Learning and German Didactics. pp. 285–309.
- Feldhaus, Michael/Hüllbrock, Nadine/Jahns, Esther/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Meier, Sarah (2025):Participation through digitalisation, language awareness and real-life relevance. Working paper on participation in the participate@UOL project. URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-59602
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Birkhofer, Thomas/Stawinoga, Marco (2025): Crude! On the Acoustics of Classroom Discourse. Silence, Echo and Intonation. University of Cologne: Working Group on Written Language. https://doi.org/10.18716/krude/2
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): The four roles of teachers in pupils’ acquisition of the language of education. In: Lin-Klitzing, Susanne/Du Fuccia, David/Gaube, Thomas/DPhV (eds.): Language – Thought – Education: The Significance of German as the Language of Education. (Series: Gymnasium – Education – Society). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. pp. 62–78.
- Goschler, Juliana/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): Syntactic Complexity in Classroom Discourse: A Comparison of Noun Phrases Across Year Groups. In: Goschler, Juliana/Rosenberg, Peter/Woerfel, Till (eds.): Empirical Approaches to the Language of Education and Educational Language Competences. Wiesbaden: Springer. pp. 71–95.
Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): Perspectives on the study of authentic classroom communication. Possibilities – Limitations – Key Areas. In: Bulletin of the German Association of Germanists. No. 1/2024. pp.8–28.
In press/forthcoming.
- Bräuer, Christoph/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten (eds.): The Interplay of Linguistic and Subject-Specific Aspects in Subject-Specific Learning Processes. Münster: Waxmann (Series: Research in Subject Didactics).
- Berg, Kristian/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin: Implicit Textual Norms in A-Level Essays. Submitted for: Führer, Caroline/Fürstenberg, Maurice (eds.): Normativity and Relativity in German Didactics and Teaching. Perspectives on Language and Literature Didactics. SLLD-B – Linguistic and Literary Learning and German Didactics.
- Goschler, Juliana/Gündert, Max-Simon/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Rose, Sarah (eds.): Writing in the Subject. A Critical Review. Springer (Series: Language Sensitivity in Educational Processes).
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin: …is ‘eaten by’… more than just a linguistic surface phenomenon? On the linguistic conceptualisation of food relationships in science and biology lessons. In: Bräuer , Christoph/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten (eds.): The Interplay of Language and Subject Matter in Subject-Specific Learning Processes. Münster: Waxmann (Series: Research in Subject Didactics).
Conference report
Angela Brütsch and Tanja Steinebronn have written a conference report on the 19th annual meeting of the Working Group on Orality, at which Thorsten Pohl and I gave a presentation entitled ‘Prefabricated houses, shell constructions and open building plots in the oral development of structural and expressive means of school language ”. It has been published in issue 25 of the journal“Gesprächsforschung – online journal on verbal interaction”.
Colloquium “The Interplay of Linguistic and Disciplinary Aspects in Subject-Specific Learning Processes”
- The colloquium “The Interplay of Linguistic and Disciplinary Aspects in Subject-Specific Learning Processes”, organised by Prof. Dr Christoph Bräuer (Georg-August University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke (University of Oldenburg) and Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl (University of Cologne), took place from 3 to 5 March 2024 at Schloss Wahn in Cologne.
- Twelve presentations (covering a total of eleven different academic disciplines, some of them from a comparative perspective) addressed two key questions:
- a) “To what extent does language use (in particular subject-specific and educational language) fulfil an instrumental, supportive function for subject-specific learning and subject-specific understanding?”;
- b) “To what extent does subject-specific linguistic competence act as a stepping stone ( from the teachers’ perspective) or an indicator ( from the pupils’ perspective) for in-depth subject-specific learning processes and insights among pupils?”
- A conference report has been published in *German Didaktik*: Hülsmann, Delia & Hesse, Florian (2024): Report on the colloquium ‘The Interplay of Linguistic Competence and Subject-Specific Knowledge in Subject-Specific Learning Processes: (4–5 March 2024 at Wahn Castle, University of Cologne). *German Didactics*, (56), 87–94. https://doi.org/10.21248/dideu.717
Curriculum Vitae
Career history
| Since April 2025 | Dean of Studies, School III - School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies (University of Oldenburg) |
| Since May 2024 | Co-editor of the series SLLD-B: Linguistic and Literary Learning and German Didactics (volumes) (open access, peer-reviewed) |
| since August 2022 | Member of the interdisciplinary dieS research network (didactic-empirical writing research) |
| since September 2020 | University Professor of German Language Didactics (Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
| April 2020–August 2020 | Assistant Professor of German Language Didactics (Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
| April 2019–March 2020 | Acting Professor of Applied Linguistics (Institute for German Language and Literature and their Didactics, Leuphana University of Lüneburg) |
| May 2018–March 2020 | Academic Councillor (on secondment) (Working Group Written Language, Institute for German Language and Literature II, IDSL II, University of Cologne) |
| September 2018 | Winner of the German Language Teaching Encouragement Prize of the Symposium on German Language Teaching |
| April 2015–April 2018 | Research Assistant at the ‘ ’ ( Writing Research Group, IDSL II, University of Cologne) |
| April 2013–March 2015 | Research Assistant and Teaching staff for special tasks (Working Group Written Communication, IDSL II, University of Cologne) |
| April 2011–September 2011 | Contract for services at Justus Liebig University Giessen (under Prof. Dr Helmuth Feilke: German Linguistics and Language Teaching) for the final editing of the DTP handbook Written Language Use/Text Composition, edited by Helmuth Feilke and Thorsten Pohl |
| February 2010–March 2013 | Research Assistant (German Language Didactics, Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl, Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
| April 2007–January 2010 | Student assistant (under Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl: German Language Pedagogy, Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
| September 2007–November 2007 | Student assistant (under Prof. Dr Corinna Hößle: Biology Education, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg), contribution to the book of games and hands-on activities for young naturalists: Fascination with Nature (Schneider 2010) |
| October 2006–February 2007 | Tutor in the foundation module Media and Communication (under Prof. Dr Thomas Zabka: Literature teaching methodology, including media teaching methodology, Institute for German Studies, University of Oldenburg) |
Education and academic qualifications
| August 2017 | PhD ( Dr. phil. in the subject German Philology with a thesis on the topic Language directed at pupils (SgS) – Studies on changes in teachers’ language from primary school to upper secondary school (School of Philosophy, University of Cologne) |
| February 2017 | Defence of the thesis in the subject German Philology (School of Philosophy, University of Cologne) |
| 2007–2010 | Master of Education (Gymnasium) degree programme German and Biology (University of Oldenburg) |
| 2004–2007 | Dual-subject Bachelor’s degree programme German Studies and Biology (University of Oldenburg) |
| June 2004 | Abitur (Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium, Uelzen) |
Research
Research focuses
- Adaptive Language Use
- Teachers’ language, language of instruction and classroom communication
- Developmentally sensitive writing pedagogy
- Language in subject teaching
- Areas of tension Oral/written communication, operationalisation of conceptual writing
- Plain language
- German language teaching research
- Linguistic participation/involvement in (digital) higher education
Member of the interdisciplinary dieS research network (didactic-empirical writing research); Member of the‘Advanced Language Acquisition’ research cluster and the‘Language-Aware Subject Teaching/Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning’research cluster at the Research Academy of the Didactic Centre at the University of Olmütz
Member of the editorial team for the peer-reviewed, open-access German language teaching publication series SLLD-B (Linguistic and Literary Learning and German Language Teaching – Volumes) (since May 2024)
Projects
- Language directed at pupils (SgS). On the adaptability of teachers’ linguistic practices in the classroom (Project leader with Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl, University of Cologne) (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG, project number 426182600).
- Academic supervision of the innovative concept (Linguistic) participation in the project participate@UOL (in collaboration with Prof. Dr Michael Feldhaus), funded by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education Teaching
- Input analyses in biology lessons: Complex noun phrases across year groups – oral and written media (in collaboration with Prof. Dr Juliana Goschler, within the DiZ Research Cluster Advanced Language Acquisition)
- A comparison of prospective teachers’ language use during reading aloud and free speech (in collaboration with Prof. Dr Ulla Licandro and Prof. Dr Jörg Peters, within the DiZ Research Cluster Advanced Language Acquisition)
- Developmentally Sensitive Writing Pedagogy (esSD) – Conceptualisation and Research into its Effectiveness
Doctoral theses
- Thomas Birkhofer: The ‘initiation step’ in classroom discourse and its significance for language learning and language acquisition processes. Acquisition-oriented analyses of spoken language data from the subjects of German and Biology (working title, co-supervisor; principal supervisor: Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl, Cologne)
- Mareike Fuhlrott: Language-developing textbook tasks in subject-specific teaching – qualitative content analysis and intervention ( completed, co-supervisor; principal supervisor: Prof. Dr Torsten Steinhoff, Siegen).
- Gerrit Alexander Helm: On the development of a (digital) reading assessment procedure to highlight differences in the lowest-level reading skills ( completed, co-supervisor; principal supervisor: Prof. Dr Nanna Fuhrhop)
- Sarah Meier: Students assessing the quality of academic texts – an intervention study to promote meta-textual assessment competence in academic writing (working title, primary supervisor)
- Nadine Dji-Yung Pirsch: The interpretative essay from a writing pedagogy perspective: A design-research study on interpretative writing using text-based procedures in secondary education (working title, primary supervisor)
- Alexandra Lena Schmidt: The use of teaching and learning materials in primary school German lessons – an exploratory qualitative field study using written storytelling as an example (working title, primary supervisor)
- Barbara Streubel: A graphemic and writing-culture-based approach to written language acquisition for educationally disadvantaged children – a case-control study in Years 1 and 2 (completed, co-supervisor; primary supervisor: Prof. Dr Nanna Fuhrhop)
Workshops, colloquia, series of lectures, sections
- this-Winter Meeting 2025 (didactic-empirical writing research) (21 and 22 November 2025, University of Oldenburg)
- Workshop organised by the DFG project ‘Language Addressed to Pupils (SgS)’. On the adaptivity of teachers’ linguistic practices in the classroom (together with Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl and the project team; 19 April 2024, The Smart House Oldenburg)
- Colloquium on the interplay between linguistic and subject-specific aspects in subject-specific learning processes (in collaboration with Prof. Dr Thorsten Pohl and Prof. Dr Christoph Bräuer) (3–5 March 2024, Schloss Wahn, Cologne)
- Workshop Interdisciplinary research into language-conscious subject teaching by the research cluster‘Language-Aware Subject Teaching/Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning’, organised by Nadine Dji-Yung Pirsch
- Series of lectures on language-sensitive teaching and learning in (subject) lessons by the research cluster‘Language-Aware Subject Teaching/Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning’, in collaboration with Prof. Dr Juliana Goschler and Dr Zuzana Münch-Manková in the Summer Semester 2023, in collaboration with Prof. Dr Juliana Goschler in the Winter Semester 23/24
- series of lectures Computer – Human – Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives at the Interface between Language Research and Computing Science in the winter semester 2022/23 and winter semester 2023/24, together with Prof. Dr Susanne Boll, Hannes Kath, Dr Kyoko Sugisaki, Prof. Dr Esther Ruigendijk and Prof. Dr Wolfram Wingerath.
- Workshop Advanced Language Acquisition in collaboration with Prof. Dr Tanja Jungmann (Language and Communication and their Support in Special Educational Needs, with a particular focus on inclusive educational processes) and Prof. Dr Esther Ruigendijk (Dutch Linguistics) (10 and 11 October 2022, Oldenburg, postponed), as part of the DiZ Research Cluster Advanced Language Acquisition
- Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Subjects of Philosophy and German: The Power of Language? Identity, Narration and Judgement Formation; in collaboration with the Teacher Training Working Group at the University of Oldenburg (postponed)
- Conceptual and organisational planning of the interdisciplinary section ‘Practising?!’ – Perspectives on professionalisation research at the cancelled 2020 Symposium on German Language Teaching in Hildesheim Practising. Practices of acquiring linguistic and literary competence, in collaboration with Prof. Dr Dorothee Wieser (Modern German Literature and Didactics of the German Language and Literature, Dresden); translation into writing workshops in preparation for an anthology
- EXMARaLDA Workshop for early-career researchers at the Symposium on German Language Teaching, 17 February 2014 in Cologne, together with Diana Maak (Flensburg)
- Intensive workshop Empirical Research in German Language Teaching organised by the Young Researchers’ Network for German Language Teaching within the SDD, 12–15 September 2013, in Rastede near Oldenburg, together with Katrin Hee (Cologne) and Frederike Schmidt (Jena)
- this-summer school Literacy – Writing – School Learning, 7–9 July 2011 in Oldenburg (www.dies.uni-oldenburg.de/) (as a research assistant)
- theWinter Meetings, 18–19 December 2009 in Delmenhorst (as a student assistant)
Publications
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke (2026): When pupils ask questions. Pupil-initiated steps as exceptional events in classroom discourse. In: Behrens, Ulrike/Carl, Mark-Oliver/Kreuz, Judith/Magirius, Marco (eds.): The potential of oral communication in German lessons – across all areas of competence. SLLD-B – Linguistic and Literary Learning and German Didactics. pp. 285–309.
- Feldhaus, Michael/Hüllbrock, Nadine/Jahns, Esther/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Meier, Sarah (2025):Participation through digitalisation, language awareness and real-life relevance. Working paper on participation in the participate@UOL project. URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-59602
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Birkhofer, Thomas/Stawinoga, Marco (2025): Crude! On the Acoustics of Classroom Discourse. Silence, Echo and Intonation. University of Cologne: Working Group on Written Language. https://doi.org/10.18716/krude/2
- Goschler, Juliana/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): Syntactic Complexity in Classroom Discourse: A Comparison of Noun Phrases Across Year Groups. In: Goschler, Juliana/Rosenberg, Peter/Woerfel, Till (eds.): Empirical Approaches to Educational Language and Educational Language Competences. Wiesbaden: Springer. pp. 71–95.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): The four roles of teachers in pupils’ acquisition of the language of education. In: Lin-Klitzing, Susanne/Du Fuccia, David/Gaube, Thomas/DPhV (eds.): Language – Thought – Education: The Significance of German as the Language of Education. (Series: Gymnasium – Education – Society). Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt. pp. 62–78.
- Pohl, Thorsten/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2024): Perspectives on the study of authentic classroom communication. Possibilities – Limitations – Key Areas. In: Bulletin of the German Association of Germanists. No. 1/2024. pp.8–28.
- Heins, Jochen/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Wieser, Dorothee/Wiesner, Esther (2022) (eds.): Practising. Theoretical and empirical perspectives in German language teaching. SLLD(B) – Linguistic and Literary Learning and German Language Teaching (volumes). Vol. 5. URL: https://omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/SLLD/catalog/view/248/225/1277
- Heins, Jochen/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin/Wieser, Dorothee/Wiesner, Esther (2022): Practising – Perspectives in German Language Teaching. In: ibid. (eds.): Practice. Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives in German Language Teaching. SLLD (B) – Linguistic and Literary Learning and German Language Teaching (volumes). Vol. 5. pp. 1–18. URL: https://omp.ub.rub.de/index.php/SLLD/catalog/view/248/225/1277
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2021): The role of linguistic input in language acquisition at school. In: Der Deutschunterricht. No. 5. pp.58–68.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2021): Teachers’ language – pupils’ language. In: German Academy for Language and Literature/Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (eds.): Language in Schools – A Language in the Making. Third Report on the State of the German Language. Edited by Ursula Bredel and Helmuth Feilke. Berlin: Erich Schmidt. pp. 63–90.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2021): Linguistic Complexity in Media-Mediated Oral Classroom Discourse. In: Der Deutschunterricht. Issue 1/2021. pp.44–53.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2020): Teacher-initiated adaptive language use through micro- and macro-interactional support mechanisms as an aspect of Pedagogical Language Knowledge? In: Schindler, Kirsten/Schmidt, Frederike (eds.): Knowledge and Beliefs of German Teachers. Current Findings in Research on the German Teaching Profession. Berlin et al.: Peter Lang. pp. 205–228.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2019): Transitional norms in a developmentally sensitive approach to writing instruction. In: Lehnen, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten/Rezat, Sara/Steinhoff, Torsten/Steinseifer, Martin (eds.): Feilke revisited. 60 site visits. Siegen: universi. pp. 117–120.
- Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2018): Language Addressed to Pupils (SgS) – Studies on Changes in Teachers’ Language from Primary School to Upper Secondary Level. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter [= Germanistic Linguistics series, ed. by Mechthild Habermann and Heiko Hausendorf, vol. 310].
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin (2017): Language directed at pupils as a reflection of transitional school language norms. In: Ahrenholz, Bernt/Hövelbrinks, Britta/Schmellentin, Claudia (eds.): Subject Teaching and Language in School Teaching and Learning Processes. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. pp. 117–137.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin (2017): In the Zone of Proximal Development. Teachers adapt their language to the developmental needs of their pupils. In: Pädagogik. Vol. 69. No. 6. pp. 22–24.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten (2017): Plain language vs. adaptive language use. In: Fix, Ulla/Bock, Bettina M./Lange, Daisy (eds.): ‘Plain Language’ in the Light of Theoretical and Applied Research. Berlin: Frank & Timme. pp. 87–110.
- Hee, Katrin/Kleinschmidt-Schinke, Katrin (2017): A microscopic look at educational language. Discovering condensed noun phrases. In: German 5–10. No. 53. pp. 24–28.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin (2016): Teachers’ linguistic practices as a component of their professional competence – Outlines of a little-noticed field of research. In: Leseräume – Journal of Literacy in Schools and Research. Edited by Iris Kruse, Hans Lösener, Karin Vach, Steffen Volz and Maja Wiprächtiger-Geppert. Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 98–114. URL: http://xn--leserume-4za.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lr-2016-1-kleinschmidt_98-114.pdf.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin (2015): Language directed at pupils. Initial findings from a study on the adaptability of teachers’ linguistic behaviour. In: Bräuer, Christoph/Wieser, Dorothee (eds.): Focus on Teachers – Empirical Teacher Research in German Language Teaching. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. pp. 199–226.
- Kleinschmidt, Katrin/Pohl, Thorsten (2010): Two anthologies on the competence area ‘Speaking and Listening’. In: Didaktik German. No. 29. pp. 101–113.
Conference report
- Hee, Katrin/Kleinschmidt, Katrin/Schmidt, Frederike (2014): Brief report on the intensive workshop organised by the Young Researchers’ Network for German Language Teaching at the SDD e. V. from 12–15 September 2013 in Rastede. In: Symposion Deutschdidaktik e.V. Members’ Newsletter. No. 39. pp. 6–7.
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Functions
- Dean of Studies of School III (since April 2025)
- Member of the cross-school study commission of the University of Oldenburg and the study quality commission (since April 2025)
- Deputy member of the School Development Group of Faculty III (since April 2025)
- Member of the expert panel Shaping the future of teaching together as part of the project "Digital Teaching Hub Lower Saxony (DLHN)" (since August 2025)
- Chair of the M.Ed. Gymnasium examining board at the University of Oldenburg (since May 2024)
- Deputy member of the doctorate committee of the philological subjects of School III (since May 2023)
- Member of the participate@UOL management team(since December 2022)
- Member of the School and University Discussion Group (GSU) (since September 2022)
- Member of the School III Digitalisation Working Group (since April 2022)
- Member of the Council for Research and the Commission for Teacher Training of the Didactic Centre of the UOL (since April 2021)
- Programme Director for the Master of Education Grundschule German (since April 2021), Programme Director for the Master of Education Hauptschule/Realschule German (since October 2022)
- Representative of the Institute for German Studies for the adaptation programme (since April 2021)
- Module coordinator for the modules ger033, ger242, ger246, ger771, ger800, ger901 and ema910 (the latter together with Prof Dr Ralph Schwarzkopf, Didactics of Mathematics)
Former functions
- Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies (April 2024 - March 2025)
- Member of the Institute Council of the Institute for German Studies (April 2023 - March 2025)
- Spokesperson of the School Development Group of Faculty III (April 2021 - March 2025)
- Representative of the Institute for German Studies for credit transfer issues for all degree programmes (April 2021 - March 2025)
- Member of the scientific management team of OLE+ (biography-oriented and cross-phase teacher training in Oldenburg) (April 2021 - December 2023), moderation of the OLE management team (February 2023 - December 2023)
- Member of the DaF/DaZ admissions committee (May 2021 - March 2023)
- Member of the Study Commission of School III (April 2021 - March 2023)
- Member of the Teacher Training Working Group of the University of Oldenburg (2020-2023)
- Elected member of the preparatory committee of the German Didactics Symposium 2020 in Hildesheim
- Subject coordinator for the subject German at the Institute for German Language and Literature and its Didactics at Leuphana University Lüneburg (October 2019 to March 2020)
- Elected member (deputy member) of the Board of the Institute for German Language and Literature lI (IDSL II) at the University of Cologne (December 2018 to March 2019); previously: deputy elected member (deputy member) of the Board of the IDSL lI (October 2014 to November 2018)
- Subject study advisor (Bachelor's and Master's degree: teaching degree for primary school, secondary/secondary and comprehensive school and special educational needs) at IDSL II at the University of Cologne (August 2017 to March 2019)
- Member of the organisational group of the German didactics junior research network in the SDD (since September 2014), elected contact person there for the allocation of funding (since February 2015)
- Examining board for the Master of Education (Gymnasium) at the University of Oldenburg (2009) as a student member
Memberships
- Member of the interdisciplinary dieS research network (didactic-empirical writing research)
- Symposium on German Didactics (SDD)
- WORKING GROUP orality in the Symposium on German Didactics
- German Teachers' Association & German Specialist Association
- Centre for Teacher Training - Didactic Centre of the University of Oldenburg
- Oldenburg Research Centre for Children's and Youth Literature (OlFoKi), member of the board there (since June 2022)
- Society for Applied Linguistics (GAL)
- Oldenburg University Society e.V.
- Oldenburg Library Society
