CONTRIBUTOR:
Nina Kolleck
AFFILIATION:
TITLE:
Professor
DEPARTMENT:
Education
INSTITUTION:
University of Leipzig
BIOGRAPHY:
Nina Kolleck is professor of education and policy at University of Leipzig. She has developed a solid line of research dealing with school improvement, methods of Social Network Analysis in education, policy and citizenship education. Before joining the University of Leipzig she has been professor at the University of Aachen, the Freie Universität Berlin and visiting professor at different international universities such as the University of California, Berkeley (USA), the University of British Columbia Vancouver (Canada), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), and Tel Aviv University. In 2018, she and her colleague Dr. Miri Yemini (Tel Aviv University) were awarded the Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science A Research (ARCHES) by Minerva of Max Planck Society. In addition to having gained third party funding and scholarships from different institutions and funders, she has currently secured funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Mercator Foundation, the German Ministry of Education and Research, different international and German foundations and Max Planck Society. In line with her research interests, she serves as an advisor, consultant and board member for several ministries (e.g. the German Ministry of Education and Research), different councils, foundations and political initiatives.