LiDS Early Career Researchers
Welcome to the LiDS Early Career Researchers! We are a dedicated group of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers who work within the LiDS network on intriguing issues related to multilingualism, linguistic diversity, and education.
Are you an early career researcher and working on multilingualism or linguistic diversity in education? Then we warmly invite you to get in touch with us!
Our Projects
Sophie Munte
Given the high linguistic diversity and language barriers in the communication between schools and parents who are not proficient in German/English, my PhD project investigates the circumstances within which students are used as child language brokers in parent-school communication.
Anouk Ticheloven
Language is inherently social, and multilingualism is no exception. In my research, I explore how multilingualism – understood as proficiencies in languages with different functions and status in society – intertwine with emotional wellbeing during adolescence. Social complexity is a key focus throughout my work, as I am interested in the underlying social processes and specific contexts that shape relationships between emotional wellbeing and proficiencies in different languages in the lives of young people.
Büşra Kocabıyık
The objective of the dissertation project is to conduct a comprehensive and systematic comparison of the construction and processing of teaching and learning in social studies lessons between school systems that differ in their fundamental structural characteristics, specifically between the integrative model observed in Canada and the selective model observed in Germany. This comparison aims to identify whether and to what extent there are differences in teaching practices between these systems and to ascertain which facilitations and impediments to the academic and social participation of all students are associated with these structural differences. Furthermore, it is essential to investigate the relationship between the reconstruction results and the respective school-teaching framework, which encompasses the formal rules that govern it.
Eray Kara
I am currently working on cognitive biases of international students` decision making processes. I am also interested in migration, higher education studies, academic mobility and narrative studies.
Kseniia Pershina
In my dissertation, "Multilingualism of Migrant Care Workers as a Resource in the Labor Market," I examine the role of multilingual competence in the professional everyday life of migrant care workers. Multilingualism is considered from the perspective of Human Capital Theory as a competence that can enhance employee productivity. The main research questions are: What role does multilingualism play for migrant care workers in the healthcare sector? To what extent does multilingualism contribute to the professional competence of care workers?
Nadine Cruz Neri
Currently, I am working on various studies and in two DFG projects, interested in the role of language in different learning contexts. For example, I am interested in the role of language in STEM subjects and the predictors of reading skills. I would also like to focus more on diversity aspects and examine how (linguistic) diversity can be promoted in the school context.
