Cooperation Partners
Guest Professors
Prof. Carolina Guzmán Valenzuela from Universidad de Tarapacá
As part of Universität Hamburg's Agathe Lasch Visiting Scholar Programme 2024, Prof. Dr Carolina Guzmán Valenzuela will be a guest at the Hamburg Centre for University Teaching and Learning during the winter semester 24/25. Prof. Carolina Guzmán Valenzuela has published extensively on higher education topics, including the separation of the public and private sectors, the decolonisation of Latin American universities, knowledge production in the social sciences, and internationalisation.
Dr. Huacong Liu from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Dr. Huacong Liu is visiting the Institute of Lifelong Learning in July 2024. Dr. Huacong Liu is an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. She holds a Ph.D. in higher education from Pennsylvania State University. Previously, she has worked with organizations such as the OECD, UNESCO, UIL, and the University of Hamburg. Her research interests include education policy, skill formation, and the returns on education across countries.
Prof. Larissa Aronin from Oranim Academic College of Education
Prof. Larissa Aronin is visiting us from April 1 to July 31, 2024 and is a guest in the working group "Didactics of Romance Languages" (EW4). Larissa Aronin is Associate Professor at the Oranim Academic College of Education in Israel. She is the former director and a founding member of the International Association of Multilingualism. Her areas of interest include multilingualism, multilingualism acquisition and teaching, material culture of multilingualism, identity, intercultural and multicultural and diversity studies, complexity and language contact.
Prof. Dr. Melanie Bangel from Universität Bielefeld (Germany)
Melanie Bangel is professor for German language didactics at Universität Bielefeld. Her Researchinterests are morphology, acquisition of reading and writing and language didactics.
Prof. Dr. Alisa Belzer from Rutgers Graduate School of Education (USA)
Alisa Belzer, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Learning and Teaching at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Focused largely on adult literacy education, her research includes study of policy, professional development, and learner experience. Belzer’s interest in the field stem from her early experience working as an adult literacy practitioner, during which she was inspired to gain a greater understanding of adult literacy students, teaching, curriculum, and assessment, as a means of improving the quality of instruction.
Assoc. Prof. Carole Bloch (South Africa)
Carole Bloch is Associate Professor in Early Language and Literacy at the University of the Western Cape. Since 2012, Prof. Bloch has directed Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA). PRAESA is a non-government multilingual language and literacy organisation. Her work and research interests are in multilingual education involving transformative early childhood pedagogies, including Froebelian approaches, meaning based early literacy, storybook and materials development and literacy cultural practices. Her current interest is in integrative neuroscience and literacy. She visited the University of Hamburg from winter semester 2022/23 to summer semester 2024.
Prof. Dr. Doria Daniels from Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Prof. Dr. Doria Danials is Professor in the department of educational Psychology. Her resarch interests are in adult learning theory and support.
Prof. Dr. Esther Prins from Pennsylvania State University (USA)
Prof. Dr. Esther Prins research employs critical and sociocultural theories to examine adult and family literacy, adult basic education, rural adult education, and participatory approaches to education, community development, and research. In particular, her scholarship explores the "wider benefits" of adult education and how adult education reproduces and/or mitigates inequities rooted in race/ethnicity, class, gender, and immigration status.
Prof. Dr. Suzanne Smythe from Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Prof. Dr. Suzanne Smythe works at the intersections of adult literacy, digital equity and community-based learning. Her current research program explores new technologies, literacies and digital justice in community-based adult learning settings.
Guest PhD Students and Candidates
Nuo Hou from Shanxi University
Hou Nuo is a PhD candidate and visiting scholar from China supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gogolin and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nauck. During her master's degree, she majored in sociology at Shanxi University. Now, her research interest is about intergenerational relationship, social inequality, youth education, family studies and quantitative analysis. To be more specific, she mainly focuses on the effect of grandparents on the children’s education among multigenerational co-residence households, which can be found in China.
Abdullah Atmacasoy from Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Abdullah Atmacasoy was a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at Middle East Technical University and a visiting researcher in DivER from October 2020 to September 2022 in the Department of General, Intercultural, and International Comparative Education. He was awarded to DAAD Research Grant and the Technological and Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) 2214-A Research Grant for his doctoral dissertation research. Furthermore, Abdullah Atmacasoy received the award for the Best Dissertation 2023 of the Middle East Technical University (METU) Ankara for his dissertation “Learning The Language Of Instruction In Monolingual Countries: A Mixed Methods Comparative Study On Newly Arrived Migrant Students In Turkey And Germany”
He is interested in research on developing effective curriculum and instructional strategies in low-resource contexts and for youth with migration background. He has 10 years of teaching experience and serves as the editor of Refugee Review, a publication of the ESPMI (Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues) Network.
For more information, please visit https://abdullahatmacasoy.com