We are happy to announce two new publications from PD Dr. Anna-Lisa Müller (IKG)!
The first publication is a joined paper with Leonie Tuitjer (Hannover) and Gesine Tuitjer (Braunschweig) on the role of social infrastructures, consumption and neighbourhood-based solidarity during the pandemic with the title "Buycotting to save the neighbourhood? Exploring the altered meaning of social infrastructures of consumption during the Covid-19 crisis in Linden, Hannover, Germany". It is published in Social & Cultural Geography online.

The second publication is a chapter in German about the interrelation of migration biographies and spaces with the title "Räume, Zeiten, Orte: Migrationsbiographien und Raumkonstitutionen", published in the edited volume "Biographie und Raum", edited by Johannes Becker, Gunter Weidenhaus and Nicole Witte and published with Universitätsverlag Göttingen.

Here for the first paper.

Here for the second publication. You can download the whole book as well as the chapter by PD Dr. Anna-Lisa Müller.

On Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, Yaatsil Guevara González at the Faculty of Sociology and Faustine Bwire Masath at the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science successfully completed their doctorates. Yaatsil continues to work as a postdoc at the University of Mainz. Masatu will continue to research at Dar es Salaam University College of Education. Both will be able to continue their cooperation with the IKG and the University of Bielefeld even more successfully.

The IKG congratulates on this success!

A new paper by Dr. Ahmad Al Ajlan (IKG) was published on the journal "Nature Human Behaviour" which belongs to the Springer Nature Publishing Group.

On the paper "How academia should support scholars fleeing war and persecution?" Dr. Ahmad Al Ajlan discusses key steps that academic communities can take to support and integrate their refugee colleagues.

"Supporting scholars at risk who flee persecution in their home countries is an old tradition in many democratic countries, which started even before the Second World War. Famous examples are Albert Einstein, Karl Popper and Hannah Arendt. Today, the Council for At-Risk Academic, which is based in Europe, receives hundreds of requests every year from academics in immediate danger. However, individuals and institutions who seek to support persecuted academics still face challenges and problems when it comes to practice".

Here for the complete paper.

A new paper written by Prof. Dr. Tobias Hecker and Frau Anette Kirika was published on the Verhaltenstherapie Journal. The paper ("Interaction Competencies with Children – Development and Theory of Change of a Preventative Intervention for Teachers in the Context of Socially Accepted Violence") focuses on a violence prevention intervention workshop for teachers in contexts of socially accepted violent discipline.
The IKG congratulates them for this achievement!

Here for the English and German version.