Prof. Dr. Marianne Hirschberg
Professor, Section: Disability, Inclusion and Social Participation
- Telephone
- +49 561 804-2966
- hirschberg[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
- Location
- Arnold-Bode-Str. 10
34127 Kassel
- Room
- Arnold-Bode 10, Raum 3216
The department does not take any examinations for the teacher training courses. For the winter semester 24/25 no more acceptance for BA theses or MA theses. From 01.04.2025 Prof. Hirschberg will be on parental leave. No supervision of BA theses or MA theses during this time.
(Executive) Functions
Spokeswoman of the working group "Participation research" of the "Forschungsverbund Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik (FoSS)" https://www.uni-kassel.de/forschung/foss/forschen-ags-qags/ag-teilhabeforschung
Deputy Spokeswoman of the Research Training Group Just and sustainable transition (JUST) https://www.uni-kassel.de/forschung/just/kontakt
- Human Rights in Disability Studies
- Research on barriers and accessibility as well as Universal Design
- Parallels and differences between Disability and Postcolonial Studies
- Conditions and design of inclusive adult education
- Research on nazi "euthanasia" crimes
- Constructions of disability and normality
- Disability movements between the narratives of modernity and liberation movements
03/2023 - 10/2023 On the editorial team of the magazine "Gemeinsam Leben",
https://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/paedagogik/zeitschriften/gemeinsam_leben/
Since August 2016 Member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS).
SinceApril 2016 Confidential advisor of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation
Since April 2015 Member of the jury "andersartig gedenken on stage", school and youth theatre competition on biographies of victims of nazi "euthanasia" crimes
Since June 2014 Member of the network against selection through prenatal diagnostics
Since January 2014 Member of the advisory board of the Journal "RP Reha. Law and practice of rehabilitation, journal for rehabilitation, participation and severe disability law"
Since May 2011 Member of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE)
03/2011 - 12/2020 Member of the German Society for Rehabilitation Science (DGRW)
Since February 2011 Member of the Gen-ethcial Network
Since September 2010 Member of the Article 3 Network, Association for Human Rights and Equality of Disabled Persons
Julian Horn
PhD project "How Do Urban Time Structures Align with Time Needs of Disabled People? - A Comparative Analysis of the Time Needs of Disabled People and the Current Spatio-Temporal Structures of Public Urban Spaces" (since 08/2024)
Rebecca Maskos, completed with summa cum laude:
PhD project "Wheelchair Use and Wheelchair Acceptance in the Context of Ableism, Stigma and Doing Dis_ability - a Qualitative Study of Subjective Practices of Constructing Non_Disability" (01/2016 - 04/2023)
Eva Charlotte Hesse, completed with summa cum laude:
PhD project "Stereotypically Autistic. On the Stereotypicality of Autism Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction" (10/2024)
Yvonne Wechuli
PhD project "Disability, Emotions and Affect - how Disability Studies (should) write about emotions" (since 10/2023)
Mirjam Schülle
PhD project "Health and participation benefits for refugees with disabilities - An empirical study on the application of the discretionary standard in social authorities"(since 01/2021)
Helge Stobrawe
PhD project "Habitus analysis of teachers in inclusive adult education", cumulative doctorate as part of the BMBF research project "Inklusive Bildung in der Alphabetisierungspraxis und im System des Zweiten Bildungswegs - Qualifikationen, Kompetenzen und Bedarfe des pädagogischen Personals (INAZ)" (since 05/2018)