Welcome to the Faculty of Education research pages!

The faculty covers all areas of educational science in its research, including subject-specific didactics. Our research involves a range of topics and approaches, some of which are consolidated in the faculty’s core research areas, such as our research on literacy and language in diversity contexts and research on the teaching profession.

The faculty’s researchers also work in an international context on a broad spectrum of current issues in the field of education and learning, from childcare to higher education, from specific learning situations to the education system as a whole, and from literacy and second-language acquisition to the use of modern media. An array of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches is used and developed in the faculty’s basic and applied research.

The Faculty of Education’s research profile

The faculty’s research covers a variety of topics and perspectives from all areas of education science and subject-specific didactics.

The Literacy in Diversity Settings research center (LiDS) brings together the faculty’s researchers and projects on education as well as associated members and guests to create an interdisciplinary network. How can long-term language learning work in a context of diversity? This is the pivotal question for all of LiDS research and knowledge exchange activities. LiDS is also one of Universität Hamburg’s profile initiatives and one of the faculty’s major research areas.

In addition to LiDS, the faculty has developed 2 further research areas with researchers from different research groups.

-          research on the profession of teaching

-          uncertainty as a dimension of educational action

In addition to the faculty’s major research areas, there are other central research topics such as digitalization, inclusion, curriculum development, and education for sustainable development. For each of these topics, researchers have been doing long-term research or are working on ongoing projects. The topics are best understood as a cluster of thematically related individual projects.

The faculty is divided into separate working areas, with each one dedicated to a single area within the field of education. The Research in the Working Areas page provides an overview of current projects within each working area.

Last but not least, research projects and groups led by doctoral and early career researchers in the form of research training groups or early career research groups also form part of the research map..