Anne Gottwald (Research Group on Special Educational Needs and Inclusion in Schools, specialising in emotional and social development) successfully completed her PhD on 19 May 2026 on the topic “Elterliche Erwartungen an die Kommunikation mit dem multiprofessionellen Schulpersonal an inklusiven Schulen der Sekundarstufe I am Beispiel von Elterngesprächen”. Congratulations!

Daniela Möller (School Pedagogy Research Group, specialising in gender studies) successfully completed her PhD on 28 April 2026 on the topic “Kritik des Selbstbesitzes - Eine feministische Analyse vertragstheoretischer Staatslegitimierungen”. Congratulations!

Janis Wehde (School Pedagogy Research Group, specialising in lower secondary education) successfully completed his PhD on 5 December 2025 on the topic “Empirische Studien zur Demokratiebildung im Lehramtsstudium in Nordrhein-Westfalen”. Congratulations!

Lukas Müller (Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Research Group, specialising in school development and teaching research) successfully completed his PhD on 21 November 2025 on the topic “Multiprofessionelle Umsetzung inklusiver Bildung im deutsch-kanadischen Vergleich - Eine qualitativ-vergleichende Studie zu Kooperation und Rollenkonstellationen beruflicher Akteure an inklusiven Schulen des Sekundarstufenbereichs I in Nordrhein-Westphalen (Deutschland) und Alberta (Kanada)”. Congratulations!

The detailed report on the study, a summary of the findings and a video presenting potential future developments for the school education sector in Germany based on ICILS 2023 are available on the project’s website:

www.upb.de/icils2023

The Gender Factor in Research

Biases in AI that result in preferential treatment of certain groups of people, medicines that affect men and women differently, and disease risks that vary in severity depending on gender: diversity criteria play an important role in many research contexts. To ensure that the gender dimension is taken into account in a needs-based manner in research and development, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched the funding guideline ‘Geschlechteraspekte im Blick’. Among the projects currently receiving funding is the new centre of expertise on ‘Geschlecht als Analysekategorie in universitären Forschungs- und Wissenszusammenhängen’ (GeFoWiss) at Paderborn University.

Further information is available here.