Leonie Schulz

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since 10/2024
Research associate at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN) in the project "Transgender People in Prison"

Since 11/2022:
Research associate in the research and teaching unit 8 - Sociology of Gender in the working group Prof. Dr. Tomke König
Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

2023 - 2025:
Professional training: Certificate "Professional Teaching Competencies for Universities"

03/2022 - 09/2022:
Associate Lecturer in BA Social Work
Seminar title: "Trans Studies and Social Work"
Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

03/2022 - 09/2022:
Student research assistant in the working area 8 - Sociology of Gender
Working group Prof. Dr. Tomke König
Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

05/2021 - 10/2021:
Scientific research and writing activities in the project Recovery Acres: Development of a concept for the integration of recovering substance users into a community
Carried out for the non-profit organisation Lady Flower Gardens
Edmonton in Alberta, Canada

02/2020 - 05/2022:
Program coordinator of the peer mentoring program Blickpunkte on behalf of the Equal Opportunities Commission at the Faculty of Sociology
Bielefeld University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Winter semester 2024/25:
Queer Subjectivities and Identity Formation
Trans People in Prison Systems

Summer semester 2024:
Introduction to Queer Theory

Winter semester 2023/24:
Academic Knowledge Production and Practising Activism

Summer semester 2023:
Doing Gender

Winter Semester 2022/23:
Introduction to Trans Studies

Summer semester 2022:
Trans Studies and Social Work

ACADEMIC DEGREES

09/2019 - 10/2022:
MA Gender Studies - Interdisciplinary Research and Application
Bielefeld University

Master thesis title: 'It's not all sunshine and rainbows': An exploration of how trans people negotiate subjectification processes on r/NonBinaryTalk in the context of transnormative pressures
Grade of Master thesis: 1.3 (very good)

Overall grade: 1.1
Awarded with an honorary certificate for the best degree of the year in MA Gender Studies

09/2016 - 09/2019:
BA Anthropology and Sociology (Double major degree)
Maynooth University, Ireland

Bachelor thesis title: "How Trans* Students in Ireland Experience their College Environments"
Grade of Bachelor thesis: 1.0

Overall grade: 1.3

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

01/2024
Trans and Social Work (Guest Lecture: University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Bielefeld)

11/2023
Introduction to Gender Studies (for the Droste-Haus Youth Exchange Programme in the Area of Gütersloh e.V.)

09/2023
(Intersectional) Gender Sensitivity in Teaching (LehrBar - Exchange of Teaching Staff, Uni Bielefeld)

2020-2022
Variety of workshops (e.g. gender workshops) in the context of a peermentoring programme for inter, nonbinary and female students of the faculty of sociology, University of Bielefeld