Consultation hour

From 01.04.2025 Prof. Marianne Hirschberg will be on parental leave.


Applications via partsch@uni-kassel.de

The department does not take examinations for teacher training courses.

(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

Officer for Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses, Department of Human Sciences, University of Kassel (since 10/2020)

  • 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

Kevin Vollrath
PhD project “Disability in Bethlehem: Occupation, Hope, and Knowledge”, in cooperation with Princeton University, U.S.A. (external reader since 11/2020, PhD awarded 2024)

Simon Ledder
PhD project “Playing with the (Im-)Perfect Human Being: Discursive Constructions of Dis/Ability and Human Enhancement Technologies in Digital Games”, in cooperation with the Braunschweig University of Art (since 04/2022)

Eliah Lüthi
PhD project “Psych-Powerful. Making Sense of Psychiatry, Violence, and (Im)Possible Forms of Resistance: A Discourse-Analytical Approach”, in cooperation with the University of Innsbruck (since 07/2022, dissertation defense 04/02/2026)

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 (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 (summa cum laude)

PhD project "Stereotypically Autistic. On the Stereotypicality of Autism Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction" (10/2024)

Yvonne Wechuli (magna cum laude)

PhD project "Disability, Emotions and Affect - how Disability Studies (should) write about emotions" (10/2023 - 12/2024)

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)