Safà El Koura, BA MA
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Institut für Psychosoziale Intervention und Kommunikationsforschung
Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck
Büro 08N010, 8. Stock
+43-512-507/44608
Project Collaborator in Educational Transitions in the Context of Linguistic Minoritization at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
Participant in the PhD Course Multilingualism and Qualitative Research Methods at the University of Tromsø, Norway
2024 – 2025
Junior Researcher at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
2023 – 2024
Linguist and Cultural Mediator in the TRUST Project – Tackling Under-Reporting and Under-Recording of Hate Speech and Hate Crimes Against Muslim Women (EU-funded initiative)
2020 – 2023
Computational Linguist at Wonderflow
2018 – 2020
Tutor at the Department of Humanities, University of Trento, Italy
2017
Post-graduation Internship at Incolsa – Turismo de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2015
Erasmus Program, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
2013 – 2016
Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages, University of Trento, Italy
- Sociolinguistics with a focus on language ideologies and practices in multilingual contexts
- Multilingualism in education and migration
- Ethnographic and qualitative research methods
- El Koura, S., Savic, K., & Thoma, N. (2025, September). Mehrsprachigkeit im Kontext bildungsinstitutioneller Übergänge vom Kindergarten in die Grundschule [Conference presentation]. Innsbrucker Fachtagung zur Elementarpädagogik, Südtirol 4. Lernen in der Elementarpädagogik: Bedingungen – Erwartungen – Herausforderungen, Innsbruck, Austria
- Thoma, N., Savic, K., & El Koura, S. (2025, September). Not a single child from a “purely German” family: Categorizations during transition to school [Conference presentation]. ECER 2025 (European Educational Research Association), Belgrade, Serbia.
- Thoma, N., El Koura, S., & Savic, K. (2025, July). Paradoxes of ethnolinguistic marginalization: Examining minority hierarchies and exclusion in South Tyrol's primary schools [Conference presentation]. 5th ISA (International Sociological Association) Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco.
- El Koura, S. (2025, April). Multilingualism, Islam, and identity: Investigating the Arab-Muslim community in South Tyrol [Paper presentation]. Ph.D. course HIF-8041: Multilingualism – qualitative sociolinguistic research methods, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
- Thoma, N., Savic, K., & El Koura, S. (2025, March). Zur Konstruktion natio-ethno-lingualer Gruppen in der Grenzregion Südtirol: Reflexionen aus einem ethnographischen Projekt [Conference presentation]. Jahrestagung der SIIVE (Interkulturelle und International Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft), University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.