Former faculty/staff members
Astrid Biele Mefebue was a research assistant at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from 2013 to 2017. From April 2017 to March 2022, she represented the professorship for Sociology of Diversity at the University of Göttingen. Astrid Biele Mefebue is Head of Program Services at Kühne Logistics University.
Melanie Bittner was a research assistant at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute during the summer semester 2017.
More information about Melanie Bittner can be found on her website: https://www.melaniebittner.de/
Areti-Kristin Bouras was a researcher at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from April 2023 to April 2024. Since April 2024, she is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Methods and Methodological Principles in the Social Sciences.
Lisa Brünig was Lecturer at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from February to October 2023. She is also connected to the Institute as a doctoral researcher and teacher.
Lisa Brünig is theCoordinator of the competence centre for gender-sensitive medicine at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH)
Isabel Dean was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from January to September 2018.
Currently, Isabel Dean is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Siegen:https://www.bildung.uni-siegen.de/mitarbeiter/dean/
Yvonne Franke worked as scientific coordinator in the project "Diversity Turn in Land Use Science: The Importance of Social Diversity for Sustainable Land Use Innovations using the Example of Vanilla Cultivation in Madagascar" from 2016 to 2020. From August 2020 to March 2021, she was Acting Professor for the Sociology of Diversity at the University of Göttingen.
Currently, Yvonne Franke works at the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. She is an associate member of the Diversity Research Institute.
Julia Giese was a Lecturer at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from 2022 to 2023.
Currently, Julia Giese is a post-doctoral researcher at Loughborough University.
Arite Heuck-Richter was responsible for coordinating the administration and strategic development of the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from September 2013 to July 2015.
Currently, Arite Heuck-Richter manages the central student advisory service at the University of Hildesheim https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/zsb/kontakt/team-der-zentralen-studienberatung-zsb/#c35402 and works as a freelance coach http://arite-heuck-richter.de/.
Katharina Jäntschi was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from 2017 to 2021.
Katharina Jäntschi currently works with JFF – Institute for Media Research and Media Education, Munich: https://www.jff.de/ansprechpersonen/detail/katharina-jaentschi/
Marian Laubner worked as a research assistant at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from July 2016 to June 2020.
Currently, Marian Laubner is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
Halyna Leontiy was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from January to October 2021.
Currently, Halyna Leontiy is acting professor of
Ksenia Meshkova was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from October 2017 to November 2018.
Ksenia Meshkova is a lecturer at evangelische hochschule berlin
Anne Mielke was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from August 2016 to May 2017.She is currently a researcher at the Institut für Hochschulforschung at the University of Halle-Wittenberg
Esther D. Scheurle was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from 2013 to 2016.
Currently, Esther D. Scheurle works at the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe
Stephan Schlosser worked at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from 2020 to 2022 in the project „Care, Career, Corona“.
Stephan Schlosser's main affiliation is with the University of Göttingen's Institute for Methods and Methodological Principles in the Social Sciences.
Kristina Schneider worked at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from October 2016 to July 2020.
Kristina Schneider currently works in the Department of Studies and Teaching at the University of Göttingen in the team 'Diversity in Studies and Teaching'. There she works on the sub-project 'Teaching without Barriers' in the LInK project.
Nelly Schubert was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from April 2017 to September 2020.
Currently, Nelly Schubert works as project consultant for qualification at the Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG)
Miklas Schulz was employed as a research assistant at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute in Göttingen from September 2013 to August 2017.
Miklas Schulz is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Special Education at Leibniz Universität Hannover .
Daniel Schumann was a Research Associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from August 2019 to August 2022 and Research Coordinator from August 2022 to September 2022.
Daniel Schumann is a researcher at the Institute for Educational Research at Ruhr-University Bochum: Daniel Schumann's page at Ruhr-University Bochum
Ilona Sprott headed the secretariat of the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from 2013 to 2016.
Currently, Ilona Sprott works at the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen as office manager for Professor Krause and in the Dean's Office.
Ulrike Thiele-Manjali was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from 2013 to November 2021.
In December 2021, she took on a management position with AWO Kassel.
Eva Tolasch was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from April 2016 to August 2017.
Eva Tolasch works at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Jena.
Maia Veleva was employed as an administrative assistant at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from October 2017 to November 2018, supporting the organization and implementation of the 10th European Feminist Research Conference.
Currently, Maia Veleva works in the secretariat of the Staff Council of the University of Göttingen: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/kontakt/600103.html
Nina Vogel was employed at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from October 2016 to August 2017 for the coordination of the diversity audit " Vielfalt gestalten" ("Shaping Diversity") of the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany.
S. Annette Witherspoon was a research associate at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute from August 2016 to May 2021.
Currently, Jun.-Prof. Dr. S. Annette Witherspoon is an adjunct professor at Friedensau Adventist University.