Ass.-Prof. Dr. Julia Biermann

Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Department of Education
Innrain 52 a, A-6020 Innsbruck
Room 08I040
0043-512-507/40027
julia.biermann@uibk.ac.at
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0610-5896

Profile

Main research areas:

  • International comparative educational research
  • Global perspectives on inclusion and disability
  • Disability Studies
  • Human rights, UN CRPD and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Qualitative research methods

Current work

  • Biermann, Julia (2022): Translating Human Rights in Education. The Influence of Article 24 UN CRPD in Nigeria and Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12000946 (Open Access)
  • Biermann, Julia; Powell, Justin (2022): International Disability Studies. In: Anne Waldschmidt (ed.), Handbook of Disability Studies. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18925-3_2
  • Biermann, Julia; Pfahl, Lisa (2020): A Global Monitoring Practice in the Making: Disability Measurement for Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Inclusive Education. In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, 31(3), pp. 192-213. https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2020-31-3-11

Vita

Funktion
Since 2021 Assistant Professor, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
2018-2020University Assistant (Post-Doc), Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
2018 Doctorate, Humboldt University of Berlin

Research projects

Projects

  • current: Publication of the Journal for Disability Studies (ZDS), together with David Brehme, Prof Dr Mai-Anh Boger, Prof Dr Swantje Köbsell, Prof Dr Lisa Pfahl and Rebecca Maskos, https://zds-online.org/, funded by the University of Innsbruck
  • current: Quantifying Inclusion: Global Data Practices for Measuring the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Habilitation
  • completed: Learning Objects for Inclusive Education: Materials for Digital Learning Environments, in cooperation with the University of Bolzano, funded by the Euregio Mobility Fund
  • Completed: Comparing Article 24 UN CRPD's Influence on Inclusive Education in Nigeria and Germany: Institutional Change in Educational Discourses, dissertation

Memberships and co-operations

  • Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
  • German Association for the United Nations (DGVN)
  • Disability Studies Network
  • Scientific network "Inclusive Education in International Comparison", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - project number 427476584

Publications

Monograph

  • Biermann, Julia (2022): Translating Human Rights in Education. The Influence of Article 24 UN CRPD in Nigeria and Germany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12000946 (Open Access)

Articles in journals

  • Boger, Mai-Anh; Biermann, Julia; Brehme, David; Köbsell, Swantje; Maskos, Rebecca; Pfahl, Lisa (2022): Offside and Beyond the Social Model - Disability in Pedagogy. Editorial. In: Journal for Disability Studies, (2), 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.15203/ZDS_2022_2.01
  • Boger, Mai-Anh; Biermann, Julia; Brehme, Davis; Köbsell, Swantje; Maskos, Rebecca; Pfahl, Lisa (2022): Systematic, historical and interdisciplinary approaches to the social model of disability. Editorial. In: Journal for Disability Studies, (1), 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.15203/ZDS_2022_1.01
  • Brehme, David; Köbsell, Swantje; Biermann, Julia; Boger, Mai-Anh; Maskos, Rebecca; Pfahl, Lisa (2021): Utopias and dystopias - A Disability Studies look ahead. Editorial. In: Journal for Disability Studies, (1), 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.15203/ZDS_2021_1.01
  • Biermann, Julia; Pfahl, Lisa (2020): A Global Monitoring Practice in the Making: Disability Measurement for Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Inclusive Education. In: Austrian Journal of Historical Sciences, 31(3), pp. 192-213. https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2020-31-3-11
  • Biermann, Julia (2019): "Special educationalisation of inclusion". Article 24 UN CRPD and the discourse on the development of inclusive school systems in Nigeria and Germany. In: From Politics and Contemporary History, 69(6-7), pp. 19-23. https://www.bpb.de/apuz/284892/sonderpaedagogisierung-der-inklusio
  • Biermann, Julia; Pfahl, Lisa (2018): Knowledge of disability and the right to education: a Nigerian-German comparison of special educational classification systems and school inclusion. In: Education and upbringing, 71(4), pp. 432-448. https://doi.org/10.13109/buer.2018.71.4.432
  • Biermann, Julia (2016): Different Meanings? The Translation of Inclusive Education in Nigeria. In: Journal of International Education Research and Development Education. Special Issue: Governing Diversity and the Global Paradigm of Inclusive Education, 39(3), pp. 10-15. https://www.waxmann.com/index.php?eID=download&id_artikel=ART102018&uid=frei
  • Biermann, Julia (2016): Approaches to Inclusive Education in Nigeria: The Pivotal Role of Poverty and Disability. In: Journal for Inclusion online, (1). http://www.inklusion-online.net/index.php/inklusion-online/article/view/338/282
  • Biermann, Julia (2015): Dimensions of Ableism: Educational and Developmental Ability-Expectations. In: Journal of Inclusion online, special issue on Ableism: Disability and Empowerment in Education, (2). http://www.inklusion-online.net/index.php/inklusion-online/article/view/271/254
  • Biermann, Julia; Powell, Justin J.W. (2014): Institutional dimensions of inclusive schooling - A comparison of the challenges of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for Germany, Iceland and Sweden. In: Journal of Educational Sciences, 17(4), pp. 679-700. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-014-0588-0

Articles in handbooks and edited volumes

  • Biermann, Julia (2022): International Disabiliy Studies. In: Anne Waldschmidt (ed.), Handbook of Disability Studies. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18925-3_2
  • Biermann, Julia (2021): The Impact of the UN CRPD on Inclusive Education in Nigeria and Germany. In: Andreas Köpfer, Justin J.W. Powell and Raphael Zahnd (eds.), Handbuch Inklusion International. Opladen: Budrich, pp. 167-178. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1f70kvj.12
  • Biermann, Julia; Pfahl, Lisa (2020) Knowledge. In: Inka Bormann and Inga Truschkat (eds.), Introduction to Educational Sciences Discourse Research. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 18-28.
  • Biermann, Julia; Pfahl, Lisa; Powell, Justin J.W. (2020): Multi-level analysis of school inclusion: between global diffusion of inclusion rhetoric, disabled educational careers and institutional path dependencies in Germany. In: Torsten Dietze, Dietlind Gloystein, Vera Moser, Anne Piezunka, Laura Röback, Lea Schäfer, Grit Wachtel and Maik Walm (eds.), Inklusion - Partizipation - Menschenrechte Transformations in die Teilhabegesellschaft? Proceedings of the 33rd Inclusion Researchers' Conference Berlin 2019. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, pp. 195-201.
  • Traue, Boris; Pfahl, Lisa; Biermann, Julia (2019): Discourse analysis. In: Jule-Marie Lorenzen, Lisa-Marian Schmidt and Dariuš Zifonun (eds.), Methodologies and Methods of Educational Research. Quantitative and qualitative methods and their connections. Weinheim and Basel: Beltz Juventa, pp. 112-122.
  • Biermann, Julia; Powell, Justin J.W. (2016): From exclusion and segregation to inclusion? Dis/ability-based inequalities in the education systems of Germany and Nigeria. In: Andreas Hadjar and Christine Gross (eds.), Education Systems and Inequalities: International Comparisons. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 209-233. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447326106.003.0011
  • Biermann, Julia; Pfahl, Lisa (2016): Human rights access and inclusive education. In: Ingeborg Hedderich, Gottfried Biewer, Judith Hollenweger and Reinhard Markowetz (eds.), Handbuch Inklusion und Sonderpädagogik. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, pp. 199-207.
  • Biermann, Julia (2016): First into the unknown! Planning and implementation of a comparative study on the institutionalisation of inclusive school systems in Nigeria and Germany. In: Nina Dunker, Nina-Kathrin Joyce-Finnern and Ilka Koppel (eds.), Wege durch den Forschungsdschungel. Selected case studies from Educational Sciences practice. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 39-60.
  • Biermann, Julia (2015): Comparative Research in a Global Context. Or: How is it possible to compare Nigeria and Germany? In: Erich Otto Graf (ed.), Disability in a Global Context. Beyond the boundaries of special education. Berlin: epubli, pp. 10-26.
  • Biermann, Julia (2015): The impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the development of inclusive school systems. A case study from Nigeria. In: Annette Leonhard, Katharina Müller and Tilly Truckenbrodt (eds.), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Implementation. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, pp. 297-305.
  • Biermann, Julia; Graf, Erich Otto; Kramann, Michaela; Proyer, Michelle D.; Reisenbauer, Simon; Schiemer, Margarita; Wlodarczyk, Sandra; Zahnd, Raphael (2015): Documentation of the Structured Session of agru_int on "Disability Research in Global Perspective". In: Annette Leonhard, Katharina Müller and Tilly Truckenbrodt (eds.), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Implementation. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, pp. 224-234.

Reviews and commentaries

  • Biermann, Julia (2018): Rezension [Revisiting insider-outsider research in comparative and international Education. Edited by Michael Crossley, Lore Arthur and Elizabeth McNess, 2016, Oxford: Symposium Books]. In: ZEP - Journal for International Educational Research and Development Education, (3), pp. 40-41. https://www.waxmann.com/index.php?eID=download&id_artikel=ART102574&uid=frei
  • Biermann, Julia; Pfahl, Lisa (2016): Review [Disability and Discourse Analysis by J. Grue]. In: Journal for Discourse Research, 4(1), pp. 92-95.
  • Biermann, Julia; Graf, Erich Otto; Proyer, Michelle D.; Reisenbauer, Simon; Zahnd, Raphael (2014): Opinions, reflections, food for thought [On the boundaries of "national and transnational European curative and special needs education" and beyond]. In: Vierteljahresschrift für Heilpädagogik und ihre Nachbargebiete (vhn), (3), pp. 259-263.

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