Prof. Dr. Thomas Geisen

Thomas Geisen has been a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in Olten since 2012. He works on the fields of “Work integration and integration management / disability management” and “Work, mobility and migration” in what would be described so nicely in Switzerland as a quadruple remit, i.e. in teaching/research & development/further training/performance. Even before his professorship, Thomas Geisen worked for several years as a faculty member in the same Institute for Integration and Participation at the FHNW School of Social Work. Since 2001, Thomas Geisen has also been director of the Institute for Regional and Migration Research (IRM) in Trier.

Prof. Dr. Erika Schulze

Erika Schulze has worked at FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in the area of social affairs since 2011. She holds the chair for Sociology of Childhood and Youth. Previously, she worked for many years at the University of Cologne, in research projects but also in teacher training. Erika Schulze teaches in the fields of childhood and youth sociology, education and training in the migration context, and participation in and methods of qualitative social research. Her research interests lie in the areas of growing up under conditions of heterogeneity and inequality, childhood in the migration context, migration, exodus and education, and urban coexistence.

Prof. Dr. Christine Baur

Since 2015, Christine Baur has been professor for interculturalism in social work with particular consideration of gender and diversity aspects at the Wolfenbüttel campus of Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. Christine Baur was a school social worker for many years before working for the Berlin Senate Administration for Education, Youth and Science. Her teaching and research activities focus on intercultural fields of action, school social work and multi-professionalism in educational facilities, the segregation processes in schools and residential areas, and the integration of refugees into schools in European countries. In this current project, she looked at the latter in a comparison between France, Germany and Denmark.

Dr. Adina Küchler-Hendricks

Since 2022, Adina Küchler-Hendricks has been a post-doctoral fellow with the aim of qualifying as a HAW professor (participant in the PRoProf programme) in the Faculty of Social Work at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences and inclusion coordinator in the Wolfenbüttel administrative district. From 2020 to 2022, she was a faculty member under Christine Baur in the project on school integration of refugees in European countries. At the same time, she completed her doctoral studies in 2022 at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) on inclusion and recognition practices in schools. Her key areas of focus, following on from this, are (inclusive) education, migration, social inequality, integration and the importance of language.

Britta Mutzke

Britta Mutzke is a qualified educationalist and visual facilitator. She has been self-employed in the fields of graphic recording, visual facilitation, media creation and coaching (brittamutzke.de) since 2010, across Germany and beyond. Accompanying and promoting teaching/learning and development processes is a particular concern in her work. She graduated in educational science from the Technische Universität Braunschweig in 2006. For her work as a visual facilitator, she also draws on neurodidactics and the hypnosystemic approach.