Research
Areas of work
- Inclusive pedagogy and critical exclusion research
- Educational theory and development-oriented didactics
- Understanding diagnostics
- General pedagogy of disability
- Disability history and the history of disability education
Projects (selection)
- 2024-2026: DFG network "Comedy and disability at the intersection of cultural, media, social and educational sciences"
- 2022-2025: The flak helper generation of special education
- 2022-2023: Evaluation of the allocation practice of special educational needs (SEN) in Austria, funded by the BMBWF
- 2021-2024: INNALP Education Hub, funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
- 2021-2023: Teaching-Learning Lab for Inclusive Education, funded by investment funds from the University of Innsbruck
- 2019-2024: DFG network "Inclusive science education" (NinU)
- 2019-2023: Inclusion and exclusion as an educational experience and social practice
- 2018-2022: Cooperation on the common object and the meaning of things in inclusive science education
- 2018-2020: QuaLe: Quality criteria of learning process diagnostics, funded by the University of Innsbruck's program for the promotion of young researchers
- 2018-2019: Learning objects for inclusive education: materials for digital environments, funded by the Euregio Mobility Fund
- 2017-2021: Auxiliary school pedagogy during the war: training schools for patients with headshot injuries 1914 to 1918
- 2014-2018: Education and upbringing of children and young people with a disability and an additional psychiatric diagnosis, funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Heidehof Foundation, Lechler Foundation, PH Ludwigsburg
- 2014-2016: Empowerment and exclusion (book project/edited volume)
- 2007-2013: Historical-critical edition of Kurt Goldstein's main work "The Organism" (german, 1934), supported by the German Society for the History of Neurology (DGGN)
- 2004-2010: Will and development: Issues, concepts, pedagogical-psychological perspectives (dissertation)
- 2001-2006: Aspects of the reality of life of women and men with severe disabilities in residential facilities
Expert activities
- ACQUIN (Participation in an accreditation commission)
- CEPS – Center for Educational Policy Studies (Peer Review)
- DGfE – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (Peer Review for conference papers)
- Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung (Peer Review)
- Frontiers in Psychology (Review Editor in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology)
- HLZ – Herausforderung Lehrer_innenbildung (Peer Review)
- IFO – Inklusionsforscher*innentagung (Peer Review for conference papers)
- Klinkhardt-Verlag (Book program)
- Land Tirol (Collaboration as an expert in the creation of the Tyrolean plan for the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)
- Nature – Scientific Reports (Peer Review)
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Expert opinion for doctoral funding)
- Österreichisches Parlament/Nationalrat (Statement for the Committee on Petitions)
- Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol (Expert report for curriculum development)
- QfI – Qualifizierung für Inklusion (Peer Review)
- Societies – Open Access Journal (Peer Review)
- Sonderpädagogische Förderung heute (Peer Review)
- Wissenschaftliche Kommission Niedersachsen (Expert report for research funding)
Links
- Profile at ORCiD.org
- Profile at ResarchGate.net
- Profile at Academia.edu