Research

Current projects

Between Intensification and Relativization. Modalities and Mechanisms of Religious Change
among Muslim and Christian Refugees from Syria in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Funding body: DFG
Duration: April 2024 to March 2027

Muslim Fashion Images in Germany. An Ethnography of Visual and Discursive Practices of Negotiating Diversity
Funding body: DFG
Duration: February 2023 to January

Completed projects

Religious community building among migrants in rural areas
Funding body: PRO* Lower Saxony of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture MWK
Duration: April 2021 to June 2024

Migrant communities, religious identities, and civil society integration
Funding body: DFG
Duration: June 2018 to November 2021

RESPOND - Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond
Funding body: EU (H2020)
Duration: Dec 2017 to March 2021

Spaces of Silence in Schools
Own funds
Duration: May 2018 to March 2019

Religious Diversity and Practice in Refugee Accommodation (Pilot study)
Own funds
Duration: Nov 2016 to Dec 2017

Forgotten Minorities. Integration Services of Christian Migration Churches in Lower Saxony (Pilot study)
Own funds
Duration: 2015-2017

Promised Lands and Scattered Tribes. Spiritual Aspirations and Counter Worlds in Modern Mass Migration (Enhancing Life Project)
Funding body: Templeton Foundation
Duration: 2015-2017
Georg August University of Göttingen

Religion connects. Civil society potential of religious community building
NRW junior research group (state funding)
Duration: 2009-2014
Ruhr University Bochum, Center for Religious Studies

Comparative analysis of education policy networks: Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, and New Zealand, work package in the subproject “Internationalization of Education Policy”; Collaborative Research Center “Statehood in Transition” (German Research Foundation)
Duration: 2005-2009
University of Bremen

Implementation of general studies at the University of Bremen (evaluation study), German Rectors' Conference (2006)