Esra Bellikli-Özçam
External doctoral candidate
esra.nur.bellikli-oezcam@hu-berlin.de
Consultation hours:
Tuesdays 10-11 a.m. Please register in advance by email.
Location: Ziegelstraße 10, Room 250
Postal address: Unter den Linden, 6, 10099 Berlin
Telephone: +49 (30) 2093-70350
Photo: Daniela Wolff
Research focus
- Democracy education in the context of schools and teaching
- Media education and AI in higher education
- Digital teaching and learning settings
Teaching
Summer semester 2024 onwards: Courses in the interdisciplinary elective area for teacher training students at Humboldt University in Berlin: ‘Strengthening democracy education in the classroom – Active Citizenship as an online self-learning platform’ (3 courses completed so far, to be continued in the winter semester 2025/26)
Motivation
What excites me about my field is that I can not only generate insights theoretically, but also translate them into innovative, sustainable implementations, especially in teacher training. In my role at HU, I experience on a daily basis how diverse and dynamic the interfaces between research, teaching and social responsibility are, whether in collaboration with teacher training students, teachers or other stakeholders. It is particularly important to me to make intersectional perspectives visible and to make scientific approaches accessible for educational practice.
I am currently still in the early stages of my doctoral studies and find this time to be a particularly open and educational phase – full of opportunities to explore new areas with curiosity and openness. I am currently doing my PhD on the professionalisation of teachers in the context of democracy education using digital teaching and learning settings. In the long term, I would like to continue researching the interface between media and democracy education in the context of teacher training, and I am excited to see where my path will take me.