Johanna Ullmann

Sociology & Gender Studies

Migration and gender, humanitarian reception policies, labor market, labor migration, organizations, comparative methods, intersectionality, postcolonial feminist theory

Dr. rer. soc., researches and teaches as a research assistant at the Chair of Migration and Society at IMIS at Osnabrück University. Since 02/2024 she has been working as a researcher in the Horizon Europe-funded international joint project   Link4Skills. She researches "skill and talent mobility partnerships" and is together with Prof. Dr. Helen Schwenken responsible for coordinating the qualitative-empirical fieldwork of 14 transnational case studies in 12 countries. Since 04/2024 she has also been working as coordinator in the framework of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1604 “Production of Migration” as coordinator of the   Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG).

From 02/2023 to 03/2024, she was jointly responsible for the IMIB study advisory service. Prior to that, she worked on the sub-project “Is there a 'male bias' in the early labor market integration of refugee women?” as part of the MWK-funded research network   Gender, Forced Migration, Reception Policies (04/2017 to 08/2020). In recent years, she has gained teaching experience at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), the Université de Carthage (Tunis), the LMU Munich and the University of Osnabrück. She has gained practical professional experience in German development and cultural policy, including in Egypt, and is active as a trainer and speaker for (administrative and funding) organizations in practice design, as well as a research expert in migration policy consulting.

As an elected representative of the academic staff, she is a member of the  IMIS Executive Board (in the team, since 04/2024). She is a (founding) member of the  Diversity Working Group at IMIS and a member of the   Immigration, Migrants and Labor Markets (IILME) Standing Committee of the IMISCOE network. She is a certified  intercultural trainer. She holds M.A. and B.A. degrees in Sociology, Gender Studies, Communication Studies and Arabic Studies from LMU Munich, Birzeit University (Ramallah) and the University of Damascus.

Dr. Johanna Ullmann

Foto, Johanna Ullmann
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Osnabrück University
IMIS
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
49074 Osnabrück

Office: 03/119

 jullmann@uni-osnabrueck.de

Link4Skills

Helen Schwenken / Johanna Ullmann

Selected publications

Akdemir, Nevra, Johanna Elle, Elke Grittmann, Sabine Hess, Ulrike Koopmann, Daniela Müller, Helen Schwenken, H. Pınar Şenoğuz & Johanna Ullmann (2023): Gender, forced migration, reception policies. The gendered inclusion and exclusion of refugee women. Wiesbaden: Springer.  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40688-2

Ullmann, Johanna (2024): The precarious inclusion of emancipation. Gender-specific labor-market integration projects for refugees in Germany from an intersectional perspective [Framework paper for the cumulative dissertation].  doi.org/10.48693/635

(* double-blind peer review)

Ullmann, Johanna (forthcoming): Transnational skill mobility partnerships as a promising model for labor migration or expanded resource extraction in a new packaging? STANDPUNKT:SOZIAL.

*Menke, Katrin & Johanna Ullmann (2024): Labor market participation through qualification? De-, dis- and special qualification of refugee women in the German vocational training system. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie - Austrian Journal of Sociology. [Shortlist nomination for the ÖZS “Paper of the Year Award” 2024]  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-024-00559-1

*Ullmann, Johanna (2023): Labor-market integration projects targeting refugee women in Germany: How organizations with different inequality regimes negotiate economic integration. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.  doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2264809

Ullmann, Johanna (2021): Affective integration – Empowerment of low-income women in the Israeli labor market. Review of the book 'Economic citizenship: neoliberal paradoxes of empowerment' (2nd edition). New York: Berghan Books ($29.95, 260 pp.) by Amalia Sa'ar. Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien (fzg), issue 27. no. 01/21, pp. 187-191.  doi.org/10.3224/fzg.v27i1.22

 

Schwenken, Helen & Johanna Ullmann (2026): Who bears the costs for vocational or academic training and education? The case of Germany’s skilled migration programmes. In: Izabela Grabowska  & Mary Boatemaa Setrana (eds.): Fair skilled mobility. A manifesto, 79–94. London/New York: Routledge.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003649755-8 

Ullmann, Johanna & Helen Schwenken (2023): 'So that they have a chance on their way into the world of work!’ A comparison of labor market-related support projects for refugee women*. In: Nevra Akdemir, Johanna Elle, Elke Grittmann, Sabine Hess, Ulrike Koopmann, Daniela Müller, Helen Schwenken, H. Pınar Şenoğuz & Johanna Ullmann (eds.): Gender, forced migration, reception policies. The gendered inclusion and exclusion of refugee women, 115-155. Wiesbaden: Springer.  doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40688-2_4

Ullmann, Johanna (2023): 'I am able to work as a cosmetics saleswoman, but unfortunately I am not recognized' – Coping with professional (non-)recognition among refugee women* from an intersectional perspective. In: Ulrike Koopmann & Carla Schriever (eds.): Intersectional perspectives on forced migration and recognition, 165-194. Baden-Baden: Nomos.  www.nomos-shop.de/nomos/titel/intersektionale-perspektiven-auf-flucht-und-anerkennung-id-100979/

Ullmann, Johanna, Ulrike Lingen & Arezou Schulz (2020): Normative symbolic addressing to family and motherhood in the context of forced migration: Negotiation relationships of refugee women. In: Anna Buschmeyer & Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer (eds.): Complex family relationships. How the concept of 'family' is changing in the 21st century, 239-265. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.  www.dampfboot-verlag.de/shop/artikel/komplexe-familienverhaeltnisse

Ullmann, Johanna & Helen Schwenken. Forthcoming. Migration skill corridors – Comparative report. Synthesis of 14 migration skill corridor reports. Link4Skills Deliverable 4.2. Osnabrück: Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück.  https://link4skills.eu/index.php/publications/ 

Ullmann, Johanna & Helen Schwenken. Forthcoming. Fieldwork handbook for the researching and interviewing team of work packages 3+4. Link4Skills.  https://link4skills.eu/index.php/publications/ 

Ullmann, Johanna, Mar’a Kamila Ardani Sarajwati, Bernadet Lioni Andri Damayani & Helen Schwenken. Forthcoming. Indonesia-Germany. Migration skill corridor report. Link4Skills Working Paper Series.  https://link4skills.eu/index.php/publications/

Belhaj, Karima, Mehdi Lahlou, Johanna Ullmann & Helen Schwenken. Forthcoming. Morocco-Germany. Migration skill corridor report. Link4Skills Working Paper Series.  https://link4skills.eu/index.php/publications/

Ducanes, Geoffrey, Johanna Ullmann, Maria Andrea Soco-Roda, Marla Milagros B. Asis & Helen Schwenken. Forthcoming. Philippines-Germany. Migration skill corridor report. Link4Skills Working Paper Series.  https://link4skills.eu/index.php/publications/

Joshi, Varsha, Johanna Ullmann, Helen Schwenken & S. Irudaya Rajan. Forthcoming. India-Germany. Migration skill corridor report. Link4Skills Working Paper Series.  https://link4skills.eu/index.php/publications/

Ullmann, Johanna, Muhammad Arif Fahrudin Alfana, Maruja MB Asis, Karima Belhaj, Viktor Borshchevskyy, Emma Bouillard, Myroslava Chekh, Emil Chról, Bernadet Lioni Andri Damayani, Geoffrey Ducanes, Godfried Engbersen, Izabela Grabowska, Bachi Hamdouch, Daria Huss, S. Irudaya Rajan, Rohit Irudayarajan, Varsha Joshi, Justice Richard Owusu Kyei, Ivana Kyliushyk, Mehdi Lahlou, Iryna Lapshyna, Yevheniy Matvyeyev, Mghari Mohamed, John Narh, Evita Hanie Pangaribowo, Julia Reinold, Mar'a Kamila Ardani Sarajwati, Mary Setrana, Maria Andrea Soco Roda, Sukamdi Sukamdi†, Anna Triandafyllidou, Oksana Vasylytsya, Olga Wanicka, and Valentyna Zasadko. Forthcoming. Compendium of 14 migration skill corridor reports. Link4Skills Working Paper Series.  https://link4skills.eu/index.php/publications/

Ullmann, Johanna (2026): Skills Mobility Partnerships as a promising model for labor migration or expanded resource extraction in a new guise? IMIS Working Paper 25. Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at University Osnabrück. Osnabrück: IMIS.  https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/imis/publikationen/imis-working-papers

Ducanes, Geoffrey, Maruja M. B. Asis, Johanna Ullmann & Helen Schwenken (2026): Philippines-Germany. Migration skill corridor brief. Working Paper. Link4Skills.  https://link4skills.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/L4S-MSC-Brief-Philippines-Germany.pdf

Joshi, Varsha, Johanna Ullmann, Helen Schwenken & S. Irudaya Rajan (2026): India-Germany. Migration skill corridor brief. Working Paper. Link4Skills.  https://link4skills.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/L4S_MSCbrief_-India-Germany.pdf

Lahlou, Mehdi, Johanna Ullmann & Helen Schwenken (2026): Morocco-Germany. Migration skill corridor brief. Working Paper. Link4Skills.  https://link4skills.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/L4S_MSC_Brief_Morocco-Germany_rFINAL.pdf

Sarajwati, Mar’a Kamila Ardani, Johanna Ullmann, Evita Hanie Pangaribowo, Muhammad Arif Fahrudin Alfana, Bernadet Lioni Andri Damayani, Sukamdi Sukamdi & Helen Schwenken (2026): Indonesia-Germany. Migration skill corridor brief. Working Paper. Link4Skills.  https://link4skills.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/L4S_MSK-Brief_-Indonesia-Germany.pdf

Reinold, Julia, Godfried Engbersen, Izabela Grabowska, Emil Chrol, Ivanna Kyliushyk, Helen Schwenken, Johanna Ullmann, Hendow Maegan, Daria Huss, Anna Triandafyllidou, Homayoun Shirazi (2025): Link4Skills Migrant Survey - restricted access.  doi.org/10.17026/SS/1IK0NT, DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities, v1.

Ullmann, Johanna & Helen Schwenken (2024): Country profile Germany. Migration and skill corridors. Link4Skills Country Profile Series.  link4skills.eu/index.php/2024/11/18/https-link4skills-eu-wp-content-uploads-2024-11-germany-country-profile-tm-pdf/

Ullmann, Johanna, Nadine Segadlo, Vera Hanewinkel & Marcel Berlinghoff (2023): Designing diversity-sensitive and discrimination-critical teaching settings. Guidelines for higher education teachers. IMIS Working Paper 16, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University. Osnabrück: IMIS.  Download (PDF, 1.22 MB)

Ullmann, Johanna & Helen Schwenken (2023): Gender, work and forced migration: Projects on labor market access for refugee women. In: Oltmer, J., Berlinghoff, M., Düvell, F., Krause, U. & Pott, A. (eds.): Report Global Forced Migration 2023, 223-233. Fischer: Berlin.  www.fischerverlage.de/buch/report-globale-flucht-2023-9783104917931

Schwenken, Helen & Johanna Ullmann (2019): The labor market participation of refugee women* - a central element of social participation. In: Research project ‘Gender, forced migration, reception policies’, Flüchtlingsrat Niedersachsen e.V., bbff: Bundesverband Frauenberatungsstellen und Frauennotrufe (ed.), ‘We want security’. Suggestions for a gender- and refugee-sensitive practice in dealing with refugee women*, 42-47.  www.gender-flucht.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/MWK-Projekt/Publikationen/Wir_wollen_Sicherheit_Brosch%C3%BCre_2019.pdf

Ullmann, Johanna (2019): Language courses for refugee women: Conceptual and practical implications from a scientific perspective. In: Agency for Adult and Continuing Education (ed.) Education finds ways. Findings and impulses from the Lower Saxony state program for refugees 2015-2019, 103-113. wbv series: News from adult and continuing education.  www.wbv.de/shop/Bildung-findet-Wege-6004713

Ullmann, Johanna & Ulrike Lingen-Ali (2018): Refugee women in Germany. In Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB), Policy brief on women in migration .  www.bpb.de/themen/migration-integration/kurzdossiers/280382/gefluechtete-frauen-in-deutschland/

Brodersen, Folke & Johanna Ullmann (2016): Materialitie/s and gender, conference report of the 6th annual conference of the professional association Gender Studies e.V., University of Bielefeld, February 12-13, 2016, Berlin. Soziopolis - Observing society. Hamburg Institute for Social Research.  www.soziopolis.de/materialitaet-en-und-geschlecht.html

Selected further contributions

In practice/politics

Ullmann, Johanna: “Strategic migration skill corridor planning through skills mobility partnerships – Insights from the research project Link4Skills", presentation given as part of the workshop “Institutionalizing the potential of transnational skills partnerships in times of crisis", organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation, 10.06.2026, Berlin.

Ullmann, Johanna: "Refugee women entering the labor and vocational training market: Background and pitfalls”, a presentation in the framework of the “Women in focus” conference organized by the “MY TURN – Women with Migration Experience Get a Head Start” program, funded by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus), 23.04.2026, Hamburg.  https://www.my-turn.info/projekte/projektsuche/jetzt-bin-ich-dran-zugewanderte-frauen-starten-beruflich-durch

Ullmann, Johanna: "Skilled migration from India to Germany - from an academic and German perspective." Scientific input at the project launch event "Stepping Out, Settling in: Stories of Indian Professionals in Germany", Goethe-Institut Kolkata, 15.11.2025, Kolkata/online.  Stepping out, settling in

Wichterich, Christa, Myan Deveza Grau, Leoni Schlender & Johanna Ullmann: “Bring on the healthcare workers! On colonial continuities and networking”, 40th BUKO Congress of the Federal Coordination of Internationalism “End all colonialism! - Recognition, resistance, reparations” 02.-05.10.2025, Kassel.  https://buko40.buko.info/

Ullmann, Johanna: “Resources, violence, and participation – Insights into the reception situation of refugee women* in Germany”, lecture as part of the symposium "Refugee women / women with a migration background" organized by the Integration Coordination Office in the district of Steinburg in Schleswig-Holstein, Itzehohe, 20.11.2019.

Ullmann, Johanna & Arezou Sade: “Professional and social integration of newly arrived young women and girls in Germany”, as part of a one-day themed workshop of the "JUGEND STÄRKEN im Quartier" program of the Federal Office for Family Affairs and Civil Society Tasks (BAFzA), Frankfurt am Main, 03.04.2019.

Ullmann, Johanna & Ulrike Lingen-Ali: "Demand and support equal opportunities – Reflecting on researching labor-market integration of refugee women", lecture as part of the workshop discussion “Shaping gender equality in the context of migration” organized by “G mit Niedersachsen” and the Office for Immigration and Integration of the City of Oldenburg on 18.10.2018 in Oldenburg.  Link

In academia

Ullmann, Johanna & Mehdi Lahlou: “Multi-stakeholder engagement in skill mobility partnerships: Strengthening or impeding fair migration in the emerging Morocco-Germany migration skill corridor?”, 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference “Strengthening Migration Studies through Community Engagement”, 29.06-02.07.2026, Girona.  https://www.imiscoe.org/

Reinhold, Julia, Johanna Ullmann, Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei, Geoffrey Ducanes & Godfried Engbersen: “Theorising migration skill corridors.”, 23rd IMISCOE Annual Conference “Strengthening Migration Studies through Community Engagement”, 29.06-02.07.2026, Girona.  https://www.imiscoe.org/

Ullmann, Johanna: "Building a destination reputation: How German intermediaries implement skill mobility partnerships in nursing with Asian origin countries and the effect on skilled migrants", Workshop "New dynamics in Asia’s migration regimes: Global labour shortages and rising demand for migrant workers", 15.-16.01.2026, National University of Singapore (NUS), Asia Research Institute (ARI), Singapore.   https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/migration_regimes/

Ullmann, Johanna, Helen Schwenken, Marla Milagros B. Asis & Geoffrey Ducanes: "Exploring the wins in global skills partnership and skills training schemes: the Philippines-Germany example", 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference “Decentering Migration Studies“, 01.-04.07.2025, Paris-Aubervilliers.  https://www.imiscoe.org/

Schwenken, Helen & Johanna Ullmann: "Methodologically grasping transnational skilled migration: Benefits and limits of the 'corridor approach'", 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference “Decentering Migration Studies“, 01.-04.07.2025, Paris-Aubervilliers.  https://www.imiscoe.org/

Ullmann, Johanna, Varsha Joshi, Rohit Irudayarajan: “Skilled labor migration policies and programs in the migration corridor between India and Germany” at the workshop "The production of migration in and between India and Germany: Negotiating categories of skill“ of the SFB 1604 ”Production of Migration" (University of Osnabrück) and Link4Skills, 20.06.2025, Osnabrück.

Lindquist, Johann, Sandhya, A. S. & Johanna Ullmann: Discussion round "Researching infrastructures. New theoretical and methodological avenues" in the framework of the joint workshop "Researching infrastructures. Theoretical and methodological questions" (14.01.2025) of the IRTG-SFB 1604 "Production of Migration" (University Osnabrück) and the DFG-RTG 2951 "Cross-border labour markets: Transnational market makers, infrastructures, institutions" (University Bielefeld/University Duisburg-Essen).

Menke, Katrin & Johanna Ullmann: "Integration through qualification? De-, dis- and special qualification of refugee women in the German vocational training system." IMISCOE 2024, "Migration as a social construction. A reflexive turn", 02.-05.07.2024, Lissabon.  https://www.imiscoe.org/events/imiscoe-events/1843-21st-imiscoe-annual-conference

Ullmann, Johanna:  „German labor-market integration projects targeting refugee women: Contested normative negotiations of empowerment among service providers“, presentation given at the IMISCOE Standing Commitee „Immigration, migration and the labour market in Europe“ (IILME) PhD Network, 26.01.2022, online.  https://iilme.net/

Menke, Katrin & Johanna Ullmann: “Refugee Women in Vocational Training – Discursive Reinterpretations and Structural Barriers in the German Vocational Training Market,” presentation at the 3rd networking conference “Intersectional Perspectives in Migration and Integration Research” organized by the DeZIM Research Community (German Center for Integration and Migration Research), 11–12.11.2021, Humboldt University of Berlin (online).  https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/inzentim/dezim-migration_gender_2022.pdf

Ullmann, Johanna, Helen Schwenken & Samia Dinkelaker: "Field-Specific Logics as a Challenge for Comparative and Intersectional Gender Regime Analysis: A Comparison of Protection Against Violence and Labor Market Participation Among Refugee Women* in Germany”, presentation at the 8th Annual Conference “Gender: Ambivalent Un_Visibilities” of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies (ÖGGF), 20–22.09.2021, University of Vienna (online).  https://oeggf2021.univie.ac.at/

Ullmann, Johanna: „Gender-sensitivity and labor-market integration projects for refugees in Germany“, presentation at the 1st networking conference "How gender-sensitive is migration research today?" organized by the DeZIM Research Community (German Center for Integration and Migration Research), 29.11.2019, University of Osnabrück.  https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/imis/ Veranstaltungen/Tagungen/Programm_DeZIM_Vernetzungstreffen_Gender_Migration.pdf

Ullmann, Johanna & Helen Schwenken: “Gendered knowledge in the labour-market inclusion of skilled female refugees in Germany”, presentation at the international conference “Global Labor Migration: Past and Present” organized by the Global Labor Migration Network (GLMN), 20–22.06.2019, International Institute for Social History, University of Amsterdam.

 Akdemir, Nevra, Johanna Elle, Sabine Hess, Elke Grittmann, Ulrike Lingen-Ali, Daniela Müller, Helen Schwenken, H. Pınar Şenoğuz & Johanna Ullmann: “Gender, Flight, and Reception Policies: Processes of Gendered Inclusion and Exclusion in Lower Saxony”, presentation at the annual conference of LAGEN (State Working Group of Institutions for Women’s and Gender Studies in Lower Saxony), 09.11.2018, University of Osnabrück.

Ullmann, Johanna & Helen Schwenken: “How German public employment agencies perceive female refugees”, presentation at the workshop “Migration and refugees from a global labour market perspective” 5–6.07.2018, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University.

Ullmann, Johanna: “Labor Market Integration Projects for Refugees and Gender Knowledge in Counseling”, presentation at the conference “Gender Knowledge in Social Work Research Fields”, 22–23.02.2018, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin.

Ullmann, Johanna: “Effects of Labor Market Integration Projects on the Subjective Career Perceptions and Orientations of Refugee Women” presentation at the Young Scholars’ Workshop “Current Challenges in Social Science Labor Market Research” organized by the German Association for Social Science Labor Market Research (SAMF) e.V., 14.02.2018, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin.

Ullmann, Johanna: "Labor market integration projects for refugees. Analyzing state-led support from a gender perspective", lecture as part of the workshop “Welcoming culture in the migration society. Forced migration and regulation practices”, 02.-03.02.2018, Institute of Ethnology, LMU Munich: Munich.  Link

Schwenken, Helen, Katrin Huxel, Johanna Neuhauser, Consuelo Flores, Shari Heuer, Verena Hucke, Laura Lotte Lemmer, Katharina Schoenes, Catharina Wessing & Johanna Ullmann: "Migration and gender: Current debates and ongoing research", panel discussion together, conference “Power, Body, Mobility. The research center for gender studies introduces itself”, 17.11.2017, Research Center for Gender Studies at Osnabrück University: Osnabrück.  Link

Ullmann, Johanna: “Labor Market Integration of Refugee Women in Lower Saxony: State-Provided Counseling and Professional Transitions between Self-Determination and Self-Exploitation”, presentation at the 7th Interdisciplinary Lower Saxony Doctoral Conference on Gender Studies organized by the State Working Group of Institutions for Women’s and Gender Research in Lower Saxony (LAGEN), 10.11.2017, University of Göttingen.

Lectures as part of lecture series

Ullmann, Johanna: "Transnational skill partnerships as a promising model for labour migration? - Insights into the research project ‘Link4Skills’", lecture as part of the lecture series "Migration Makes/Power Society: Skilled labour migration between defence and recruitment - contradictions of the German migration regime and their global consequences" of the Migration Centre at the Faculty of Business and Social Affairs at HAW Hamburg, 06.05.2025, Hamburg.  https://migrationmachtgesellschaft.de/

Dinkelaker, Samia & Johanna Ullmann: “Protection Against Violence & Work: Researching Projects on Gender and Displacement” lecture as part of the lecture series for the IMIB-Master program, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), 26.10.2020, University of Osnabrück.

Ullmann, Johanna: "'It is difficult for refugees of both genders'. Reflections from a research project on gender, forced migration and the labor market", lecture together with Helen Schwenken, 10.01.2019, as part of the lecture series, “Trans*Inter*Post"? - Gaps and reflection problems in (educational) difference and inequality research” at the Faculty of Education, University of Bremen.  Link

In practice/politics

"Shedding light on blind spots: Supporting access and participation of refugee women in the labor and vocational training market“ as part of the symposium ”Vocational participation under scrutiny - Flight and migration in the labor market context“ organized by the BMAS and ESF-Plus funded program ”WIR - Networks integrate refugees into the regional labor market" in Bremen, 10.10.2025.  https://www.bin-bremen.de/ 

"Work and qualifications" as part of the symposium "Refugee women / women with a migration background" organized by the Integration Coordination Office in the district of Steinburg in Schleswig-Holstein, Itzehohe.

"Professional integration of refugee women" as part of the symposium "Integration of refugees and new immigrants in training and the labor market - an interim conclusion" of the Service Agency Education Chains - an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS), 25.06.2019, Bonn.

Workshop "Pedagogical work in the field of tension between family, culture and society" as part of a one-day themed workshop of the "JUGEND STÄRKEN im Quartier" program of the Federal Office for Family Affairs and Civil Society Tasks (BAFzA), with Arezou Schulz, Frankfurt am Main, 03.04.2019, together with Arezou Sade.

In academia

"Designing diversity-sensitive teaching" within the framework of the "Higher Education Didactic Qualification" (Module 1, Block 4) organized by the Center for Digital Teaching, Campus Management and Higher Education Didactics (virtUOS) at the University Osnabrück, 05.06.2026, Osnabrück, together with Nadine Segadlo, Marcel Berlinghoff and Vera Hanewinkel.

"Navigating an international and multi-disciplinary research team", 19.01.2026, National University of Singapure (NUS), Asia Research Institute (ARI), Singapore.

"Designing diversity-sensitive teaching" within the framework of the "Higher Education Didactic Qualification" (Module 1, Block 4) organized by the Center for Digital Teaching, Campus Management and Higher Education Didactics (virtUOS) at the University Osnabrück, 11.12.2025, Osnabrück, together with Nadine Segadlo, Marcel Berlinghoff and Vera Hanewinkel.

„Ethical and qualitative social science fieldwork standards“, as co-lead of the task "Analyzing skills mobility partnerships" (research project "Link4Skills"), jointly with Helen Schwenken, 12.11.2024, online.

"Migration: What does it have to do with me?" as part of the "Student Academy 2018" of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in European Studies, with Katharine Braun, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, 05.06.2018, together with Katharine Braun.

„Introduction into social science perspectives on discourse analysis” as part of the Summer School „Methodology and research in social sciences“ of the German-Tunisian DAAD junior research group, 25-27.08.2014, University of Carthage, Tunis/Tunisia.

From summer term 24: Research colloquium of the Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Production of Migration' (with Helen Schwenken, Christine Lang and Xin Wang)

Winter term 2023/24: MA Empirical research project “Researching skills shortages and labor migration”

Summer term 2023: MA Practical exercise “Qualitative methods of social science migration research”

Winter term 2022/23: BA Seminar “Gender, forced migration, labor-market integration”

Summer term 2022: MA Seminar “Introduction to intersectionality research”

Summer term 2020: MA Seminar “Migration and culture – Approaching a contested field”

Summer term 2019: BA Seminar “Old new tensions – Introduction to sociological gender studies”