Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Science - Allgemeine Grundschulpädagogik

Dr. Niels C. Uhlendorf

Primary School Pedagogy, Research Associate (Post-Doc)

Contact

Postal Address:

Humboldt-University of Berlin

Allgemeine Grundschulpädagogik

Niels Uhlendorf

Unter den Linden 6

D-10099 Berlin

 

E-Mail: niels.uhlendorf(at)hu-berlin.de

 

Research Topics:

  • multiprofessional cooperation in schools
  • school social work
  • care and education
  • shaming in schools
  • doing difference (gender, class, race)
  • socialisation and education, subjectivation
  • qualitative research methods

 

Biography

  • since 2019: Research Associate (Post-Doc) at Humboldt University of Berlin (Primary School Pedagogy)
    • Paternal leave: 11/2021-04/2022
  • 2017-2019: Research Associate at Leuphana University Lüneburg (Institute of Educational Sciences)
  • 2015-2016: PhD-Scholarship (University of Hamburg)
  • 2012-2015: Research Associate at the University of Hamburg (Research Project: Aporias of Perfection in Accelerated Societies, Heads of Project: Prof. Dr. Vera King, Prof. Dr. Benigna Gerisch, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, funded by VolkswagenStiftung)
  • 2005-2012: Magister Artium (similar to Master of Arts) at the University of Trier: Sociology, English Studies, German Studies
    • Stays abroad: Uruguay (Internship at Goethe Institute, Montevideo, 03-06/2012), USA (Internship and Adjunct Instructor for German as a Foreign Language at Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, 01-05 & 09-12/2009)

Publications

Books 🖉

 

Articles in English 🖉

*=Peer Review (double blind)

 

Presentations

International Conferences🖉
  • Uhlendorf, N./Benzel, S. (2021): „Biographical experiences of parental engagement with education among Iranian refugees in Germany”, IMISCOE Conference 2021, Luxembourg/Online
  • Uhlendorf, N. (2021): „Optimisation pressure in the context of migration”, Spring School ‘Cultural Identities and language maintenance: Comparing Hispanic and Iranian Communities in the US and Germany’, 19. April 2021, Universität zu Köln/Online
  • Uhlendorf, N. (2019): „Pressure of self-optimization in the context of migration“, Conference of the European Sociological Association Network on Sociology of Migration – Theme “Biographies, Belongings, Borders”, 24.-25. Januar 2019, University of Strasbourg
  • Uhlendorf, N. (2021): „Interpellations of (non-)visibility: Demands of inconspicuous self-optimization for immigrants“, 2nd International Conference on Sociolinguistics, 6.-8. September 2018, Budapest
  • Uhlendorf, N. (2018): „Pressure of self-optimization in the context of migration”, 2nd International Conference of the Central and West Asia and Diasporas Research Network, 23.-25. Juli 2018, HU Berlin
  • Uhlendorf, N. (2018): „Demands of self-optimization in the context of migration: Discourses and biographical self-constructions“, IMISCOE Conference, 2.-4. Juli 2018, Barcelona
  • Uhlendorf, N. (2018): „Media representations of self-optimization in the context of migration and their appropriations in biographical narratives”, 18. Internationale Migrationskonferenz, 21.-23. Juni 2018, Technische Hochschule Köln
  • Uhlendorf, N. (2018): „Anti-muslim racism in the context of neoliberal ideologies of competition: Challenges for Adult Education”, 4. ESREA-Konferenz 2018, University of Edinburgh
  • Uhlendorf, N. (2017): „Becoming the perfect immigrants: Discourses of self-optimisation in the context of immigration and its implications on subjections”, DiscourseNet Conference, Juni 2017, Warwick University, Coventry (UK)