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Rüdiger Lauberbach

Research Fellow

Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
Strohsackpassage
Nikolaistraße 6-10, Room 5.63
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-37758


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Abstract

Researcher in the central project of the SFB 1199 with focus on equal opportunity and treatment. Working on organisation, conceptual development and project management.

Professional career

  • since 05/2020
    Assistant coordinator and equal opportunity officer of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition".
  • 01/2020 - 05/2020
    Research assistant / researcher at the BMBF-funded Research Institute for Social Cohesion at Leipzig University.
  • 01/2019 - 12/2019
    Research assistant / researcher in the central project of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition".
  • 08/2018 - 12/2018
    Freelance work for the Centre for Area Studies and independent work on autonomous research project on Ethiopian higher education.
  • 04/2018 - 07/2018
    Organisation of the conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany (VAD e.V.) for the Centre for Area Studies.
  • 01/2018 - 03/2018
    Field research in Ethiopia. Conducting interviews and collecting material concerning the internationalisation of higher education.
  • 10/2017 - 12/2017
    Research assistant at the Centre for Area Studies at Leipzig University.
  • 10/2016 - 07/2017
    Researcher at the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1199) "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition", Project "New Regionalisms and Violent Conflicts in Africa: The Politics of the AU and ECOWAS in Mali and Guinea-Bissau."
  • 02/2009 - 03/2009
    Internship at Zanzibar Current Generation Forum. Focal points: Organisation of workshops, project development, local networking.

Education

  • 10/2011 - 08/2015
    M.A. in African Studies at Leipzig University. M.A. thesis: The US American Influence on the Abyei Conflict. A Case Study in Foreign Policy Implementation.
  • 10/2007 - 09/2011
    B.A. in African Studies at Leipzig University. B.A. thesis: Failing States in Africa. The Concept of Neopartimonialism as an Approach to Explain Fragile Statehood.

2018-2019

Independent research project on the internationalisation of higher education in Ethiopia.


Pub:

Claudia Baumann/Rüdiger Lauberbach (2019): The Rise of the Global South and the Repositioning of German Actors in Ethiopian Higher Education. Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik, 42 (2), pp. 22-27.