Teaching and research focus
Prof Dr Ayça Polat
- Migration pedagogy and critical migration research
- Social inequalities and intersectionality
- Participation and conviviality
- Critique of racism and discrimination relations
Dr Fatoş Atali-Timmer, Dipl. Päd.
- Racism/criticism
- Social work in the migration society
- Reflective pedagogical professionalisation
- Differences in the education system
- Reflective criticism of discrimination and diversity
- Migration education (migration, flight)
- Gender and migration
- Multilingualism, linguicism
- Police research critical of racism
- Institutional racism in the context of NSU, Hanau, Halle
- Anti-Semitism
- Neo-Nazism/right-wing extremism
Dr Süleyman Kanat
- Democracy education
- Intersectionality and practices of social inequality
- Reflective professionalism/professionalisation in social pedagogy
- Cultural studies and criticism of racism
- (Critical) sociological theory and ethics of social work
- Sociology of education in the context of migration society
- qualitative biographical research
Gamze Keklik, M.A.
Research into subjectification in a higher education context: An investigation into how BiPoC and marginalised people are shaped by institutional power structures and how they position themselves within these spaces.
Critique of racism & decolonial theories: Critical analysis of exclusion, epistemic violence and hegemonic knowledge systems
The ambivalence of empowerment and recognition: Academic examination of supposedly emancipatory concepts and their paradoxical dynamics within the institution.
Solidarity & Practices of Resistance: Research into and communication of collective strategies for action and lived agency in theory, empirical research and university teaching.