since 11/2023: Research assistant in the project "AGePf - State and non-state universities as providers of hybrid study formats in the health and nursing professions" at the International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at the University of Kassel (headed by Prof. Dr. Bettina Langfeldt)

10/2022-12/2022: Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti" at the University of Milan (Prof Dr. Giampietro Gobo)

07/2020-06/2023: Doctoral scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation

10/2019-02/2024: PhD student at the Department of Social Science Methodology of Qualitative-Reconstructive Research at the University of Kassel (Prof. Dr. Ulrike T. Kissmann)

since 04/2018: Lecturer in the Department of Social Science Methodology of Qualitative-Reconstructive Research at the University of Kassel (Prof. Dr. Ulrike T. Kissmann)

11/2018- 06/2020: Research assistant in the project "Quality dialogues with users of Hamburg youth welfare offices" (headed by Prof. Dr. Timo Ackermann, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin)

04/2018-09/2019: Lecturer at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences for "Multidisciplinary Introduction to Inclusion/Exclusion" and "Introduction to Qualitative Social Research"

11/2016-12/2017: Research assistant at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences in the project "Unaccompanied minor refugees in Brandenburg" (headed by Prof. Dr. Stefan Thomas)

10/2012-10/2016: Studied psychology and sociology (Master's degree) at the University of Potsdam, graduated with distinction (1.0)

01/2011-06/2011: Studied social psychology abroad at the University of Kristianstad (Sweden)

10/2008-10/2012: Studied Business Psychology and Educational Sciences (Bachelor) at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Research focus

  • Qualitative social research (esp. ethnography, grounded theory, reflexivity, narratives, expert and problem-centered interviews, group discussions)
  • Refugee and migration research
  • Higher education and science research

WiSe 2023/2024
- Ethnopsychoanalysis (FB1, University of Kassel)

SoSe 2023
- Ethnography and Reflexivity (FB 1, University of Kassel)

Summer semester 2022

- Fundamentals of ethnographic field research (FB 1, University of Kassel)

Winter semester 2021/2022

- Basics of ethnographic field research (FB 1, University of Kassel)

Summer semester 2021

- Introduction to the practice of ethnographic field research (FB 1, University of Kassel)

 

WiSe 2020/2021
- Introduction to Grounded Theory Methodology (FB 1, University of Kassel)

 

Summer semester 2020

- Introduction to Grounded Theory Methodology (FB 1, University of Kassel)

Winter semester 2019/2020

- Participatory approaches in social research (Department 1, University of Kassel)

Summer semester 2019
- Participatory Approaches in Social Research (Department 1, University of Kassel)

- Inclusion / Exclusion (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)

WiSe 2018/2019
- Lecture: Introduction to Psychology (Berlin University of Applied Pedagogy)
- Introduction to Qualitative Social Research (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)

 

SoSe 2018
- Participative Approaches in Social Research (FB 1, University of Kassel)
- Inclusion / Exclusion (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)

Zalewski, Ingmar (2022). Alfred Schütz Revisited: Social Exclusion of Refugees in Brandenburg. Qualitative Sociology Review, 18(2), 72-88.

Zalewski, Ingmar (2022). Negotiating asymmetries: On the (de)thematization of give and take in ethnographic relationships using an example of refugee research [36 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 23(1), Art. 8.

Mohammed, Shahin, Muhammed, Harun, Zalewski, Ingmar & Thomas, Stefan (2019). On the
participation of young refugees in the peer research project "New in Germany": A multilogue between professional and co-researchers. In Michaela Köttig & Dieter Röh (Eds.), Soziale Arbeit in der Demokratie - Demokratieförderung in der Sozialen Arbeit: Theoretische Analysen, gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen und Reflexionen zur Demokratieförderung und Partizipation (pp.185-195). Opladen: Budrich.

Zalewski, Ingmar (2018). "Maybe you are refugee, but you are human": The challenge of remaining a subject after flight. In Rita Braches-Chyrek, Tilman Kallenbach, Christina Müller & Lena Stahl (eds.), Bildungs- und Teilhabechancen geflüchteter Menschen. Critical discussions in social work (pp. 25-34). Opladen, Berlin & Toronto: Budrich.

Thomas, Stefan, Sauer, Madeleine & Zalewski, Ingmar (2018). Unaccompanied minor
refugees: Their life situations and perspectives in Germany. Bielefeld: transcript.

Sauer, Madeleine, Thomas, Stefan & Zalewski, Ingmar (2018). Potentials and pitfalls of peer research in the context of participatory research with unaccompanied refugee minors. In Carola Frank, Margarete Jooß-Weinbach, Steffen Loick Molina & Gabriel Schoyerer (eds.), Der Weg zum Gegenstand in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfeforschung. Methodological challenges for qualitative approaches (pp.222-244). Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.

Zalewski, Ingmar (2017). Exclusion experiences of refugees from Cameroon:
Challenges and strategies after flight. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Zalewski, Ingmar (2014). Psychology - Genesis of a science: A problem-historical analysis of the discourse of the unconscious. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

 

Lectures (selection)

Zalewski, Ing mar (09/2023). Reflexive ethnography of relationships after the long summer of migration: An approach to situated knowledges, Joint Forum of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Network "Qualitative Methods" & Research Network "Quantitative Methods", University of Rome

Zalewski, Ingmar (05/2023). Cultural heritage in intersubjective spaces: Syrian unaccompanied refugee youth on their way to social participation, Graduate college: "Intangible heritage in socio-cultural innovation", University of Milan-Bicocca, University of Basilicata & University of Perugia

Zalewski, Ingmar (08/2022). Negotiating asymmetries: On the (de-)thematization of giving and receiving in ethnographic relationships, Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Network "Qualitative Methods", University of Copenhagen

Zalewski, Ingmar (09/2021). Ethnography of relationship: A qualitative approach for research on youth at the margins, 15th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Network "Qualitative Methods", University of Barcelona (Online)

Zalewski, Ingmar (05/2021). Ethnografie der Beziehung: Methodologische und ethische Implikationen aus einer Feldforschung mit unbegleitet geflüchteten jungen Männern aus Syrien, Final conference of the NFG 16 "Bildungskontexte und (Aus-)Bildungswege von jungen Geflüchteten im Spannungsfeld von Ein- und Ausgrenzung" of the Hans Böckler Foundation, University of Education Freiburg (Online)

Zalewski, Ingmar (11/2020). Ethnography of an evolving relationship: A fieldwork project with unaccompanied Syrian refugee youth in Germany, Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Network "Youth & Generation", University of Kuopio (Online)

Zalewski, Ingmar (08/2019). Studying "integration" among unaccompanied Syrian refugee youth in Germany: Alfred Schütz applied in ethnography, 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Network "Youth & Generation", University of Manchester

Zalewski, Ingmar (06/2019). Forced migration and the manifold ways of social exclusion: Notes on some problems of "integration" from a lifeworld perspective, 16th International Migration, Integration and Social Cohension (IMISCOE) Conference", Malmö University

Zalewski, Ingmar (10/2018). Exploring social exclusion within the lifeworld of young refugees: Empirical insights and future perspectives, 2nd Conference of the Network Flight Research, University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Thomas, Stefan & Zalewski, Ingmar (04/2018). Possibilities and limits of participatory research in a peer research with unaccompanied minor refugees on the topic 'New in Germany', Annual Conference of the German Society for Social Work (DGSA), University of Hamburg.

Zalewski, Ingmar (11/2017). The situation of unaccompanied minor refugees in Brandenburg, Germany: Empirical findings from the perspective of the subject (Keynote), Trust Research Project, University of Tampere

Sauer, Madeleine & Zalewski, Ingmar (11/2017). Participatory research with unaccompanied minor refugees in Brandenburg, 3rd Brandenburg Congress of Youth Work, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences

Thomas, Stefan, Sauer, Madeleine & Zalewski, Ingmar (11/2017). Situation of unaccompanied minor refugees in Brandenburg taking into account their subjective perspective, symposium "Inklusion statt Isolation - Beziehungsstiftende, partizipatorische Ansätze in der Arbeit mit geflüchteten Kindern und Jugendlichen" of the Sozialpädagogischen Fortbildungsinstituts Berlin-Brandenburg (SFBB), Berlin

Zalewski, Ingmar (08/2017). Unaccompanied minor refugees in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Research Network "Youth & Generation", Panteion University Athens

Zalewski, Ingmar (04/2017). Exklusionserfahrungen von aus Kamerun geflüchteten Menschen, Conference "Soziale Arbeit mit Geflüchteten - Bilanz und Ausblick", University of Bamberg

Zalewski, Ingmar (03/2017). Precarious arrival: Exklusionserfahrungen von aus Kamerun geflüchteten Menschen, 6th symposium of the Deutsche Nachwuchsgesellschaft für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft e.V., Humboldt University of Berlin

Zalewski, Ingmar (02/2017). What experiences of exclusion do refugees have during their arrival - and how do they manage to assert themselves against them? Jahrestagung der Kommission Interkulturelle Bildung (KIB) in der Sektion Interkulturelle und International Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft (SIIVE), Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg