Profile

Professional career

• 12/2022
  
• 09/2019 - 02/2020
  
• since 06/2007
  
• 11/2006
  
• 09/2006
  
• 01/2006 - 12/2010
  
• 10/2004 - 06/2006
  
• 01/2004 - 12/2005
  
• 02/2000 - 12/2003
  
• 01/2001 - 01/2007
  
• 02/2000 - 02/2004
  

Education

• 10/1995 - 02/2000
  

My research profile is situated in the field of ableism-critical research on professionalisation and school development. My work is positioned within the field of participatory research on inclusion and participation.

Main research areas

• Inclusion-oriented university development
• Inclusive, social space-oriented school development
• Diagnostics in the context of school inclusion
• Easy language and communicative accessibility
• Challenging behaviour of children, adolescents and adults with attributed intellectual disabilities
• Restrictions on autonomy and measures to deprive children, young people and adults of their freedom (FeM) Children, young people and adults with attributed intellectual disabilities
• Mental health care for children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities
• Committee on Curriculum and Instruction in Special Education – Intellectual Development
• Emotions in the context of disability and inclusive education

Methodological positioning

My research focuses on the perspectives and experiences of those persons who are addressed by exclusionary attributions (in educational processes). Therefore, I locate myself methodologically on the basis of research that is critical of power and rejectionism - among other things - in the field of participatory or inclusive research.

Methodologically, my research is situated within empirical social research and here in the area of qualitative-reconstructive social research as well as in the area of mixed methods designs.

• Fostering rights and agency with girls and women with disability from culturally minoritised groups (FRIDA)

  Schuppener, Saskia

  Duration: 01/2026 – 12/2029

  Funded by: EU Europäische Union

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
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• ‘Diagnosis: GE schooling dilemma?’ Analysis of possible causes and effects of the nationwide increase and change in the student body in special education with a focus on mental development (BeSchulGE)

  Schuppener, Saskia

  Duration: 01/2025 – 12/2026

  Funded by: Stiftungen Inland

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
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• Saxon practical initiative FeM: Reflection and reduction of measures restricting freedom to improve self-determination and participation of people with intellectual disabilities (ReFeM)

  Schuppener, Saskia

  Duration: 07/2024 – 06/2027

  Funded by: Andere sächsische Ministerien (ohne SMWA und SMWK)

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
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• DiKomAll: Digital Municipality for All: Designing Municipal Planning Processes Digitally and Inclusively in Co-Design with People with So-Called Intellectual Disabilities in a Barrier-Sensitive Way

  Schuppener, Saskia

  Duration: 10/2023 – 10/2026

  Funded by: BMFTR Bundesministerium für ­Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
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• Inclusion-Focused Higher Education Development: Creating Space for Inclusive Teaching, Research, and Knowledge Transfer (FriLeFT)

  Schuppener, Saskia

  Duration: 01/2023 – 12/2027

  Funded by: SMWK Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Kultur und Tourismus

  Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Pädagogik im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung
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• Schuppener, S.; Hirschberg, M.

  Menschen und Kinderrechte

  In: Boger, M.-A.; Staab, L. M. (Eds.)

  Handbuch Intersektionale Pädagogik. Grundbegriffe und Felder der Erziehungswissenschaft und der pädagogischen Praxis.. Bielefeld: transcript. 2026.
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• Hauser, M.; Goldbach, A.; Schuppener, S.; Leonhardt, N.; Hellmann, H. (Eds.)

  Partizipative Lehre. Kritische Fragen an Theorie und Praxis an neue Entwicklungen im Kontext inklusiver Hochschule

  Bielefeld: transcript. 2026.

  DOI: 10.14361/9783839473108
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• Goldbach, A.; Leonhardt, N.; Hauser, M.; Hellmann, H.; Schuppener, S.

  Zur (Weiter)Entwicklung Partizipativer Lehre – Kritische Fragen an Theorie und Praxis in einem sich neu entwickelndem Feld

  In: Hauser, M.; Goldbach, A.; Schuppener, S.; Leonhardt, N.; Hellmann, H. (Eds.)

  Partizipative Lehre. Kritische Fragen an Theorie und Praxis an neue Entwicklungen im Kontext inklusiver Hochschule.. Bielefeld: transcript. 2026.
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• Schuppener, S.; Hellmann, H.; Goldbach, A.; Hauser, M.; Leonhardt, N.

  Zur Bestimmung von (zukünftigen) Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen Partizipativer Lehre

  In: Hauser, M.; Goldbach, A.; Schuppener, S.; Leonhardt, N.; Hellmann, H. (Eds.)

  Partizipative Lehre. Kritische Fragen an Theorie und Praxis an neue Entwicklungen im Kontext inklusiver Hochschule. Bielefeld: transcript. 2026.
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• Leonhardt, N.; Hauser, M.; Schuppener, S.; Hellmann, H.; Goldbach, A.

  Mögliche Theorieansätze zur Weiterentwicklung des Diskurses um Partizipative Lehre

  In: Hauser, M.; Goldbach, A.; Schuppener, S.; Leonhardt, N.; Hellmann, H. (Eds.)

  Partizipative Lehre. Kritische Fragen an Theorie und Praxis an neue Entwicklungen im Kontext inklusiver Hochschule. Bielefeld: transcript. 2026.
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