Lena Gleirscher, MA, MEd
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Department of Education
Innrain 52a, A-6020 Innsbruck
8.Floor, room 08H010; 1st floor, school simulation room (teaching-learning lab)
lena.gleirscher@uibk.ac.at
0043 699/ 10988702
FÄKT Science-Video
Recent Publication
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2026). Inklusion und Transformation im Lehr-Lern-Labor für Inklusive Bildung an der Universität Innsbruck. In R. Schroeder, L. Bächler, S. Fränkel & J. Goldan (Hrsg.), Inklusion – Bildung – Transformation: Inklusive Bildung als Transformation – Transformation durch inklusive Bildung (297–304). Klinkhardt.
Save the Date
The Teaching and Learning Lab for Inclusive Education will take part in the panel discussion: "HOW WE LEARN"
Venue: Audioversum Science Center Innsbruck
Date: October 6, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
Registration
Vita
| Professional Experience | |
|---|---|
| Since summer semester 2025 | University Assistant in the Teaching and Research Area intergenerational relations, educational research, and youth research |
| Summer semester 2024 - summer semester 2025 | Student collaboration and scientific project work on the LifE |
| Winter semester 2022/23 | Student collaboration in the research project "Evaluation of the allocation practice of special educational needs (SEN) in Austria" |
| Since winter semester 2021/22 | Tutorial as part of the SE Quantitative Research Methods at the Faculty of Educational Sciences |
| Winter semester 2021/22 - summer semester 2023 | Student assistant at the Office of the Dean of Studies, Faculty of Educational Sciences |
| Since summer semester 2021 | Student collaboration and project work in the Teaching-Learning-Laboratory for Inclusive Education |
| Summer 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 | Creative workshops with children and young people |
| Education | |
|---|---|
| 2023 - 2025 | Master's Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (Mathematics and Inclusive Education), Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck |
| 2022 - 2024 | Master's Programme Educational Sciences, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck |
| 2019 - 2023 | Bachelor's Programme Secondary School Teacher Training (Mathematics and Inclusive Education), Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck |
| 2019 - 2022 | Bachelor's degree programme in Educational Sciences, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck |
| 2014- 2019 | Training centre for elementary education (with training as an after-school care teacher) |
Research/ Projects
LiFE Longitudinal and Three-Generation Study
Interlinked Life Courses from Childhood to Late Adulthood in the Context of Three Generations
Project Lead: Fred Berger, Wolfgang Lauterbach, Helmut Fend & Urs Grob
https://life3g.de/
Teaching Collaboration
A higher education teaching and learning design that integrates two regular university courses across different stages of study and faculties (educational sciences & teacher education)
In collaboration with: Gabriele Schauer
Teaching and Learning Lab for Inclusive Education
"Innovative and Inclusive Materials for Collaborative and Equitable Learning in Secondary Education"
Project Lead: Miriam Sonntag
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/projects/lehr-lern-labor/
TeachWell
Teacher Wellbeing as a Pathway to Quality Education
Project Lead: Ann-Kathrin Dittrich
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/projects/teachwell/
FÄKT Science Video
LiFE in the FÄKT Science Format
Engaging, accessible, and easy-to-understand science communication format
https://www.faekt.science/
Publications
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2026). Qualitative Zugänge zur Entwicklung nachhaltiger und inklusionssensibler Lehr-Lernformate. Qual.met/Journal 3(2026).
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2026, angenommen). Innovativer Wandel von inklusiven Lernsettings: Ein Lehrprojekt des Lehr-Lern-Labors für Inklusive Bildung an der Universität Innsbruck. Tagungsband Hochschullernwerkstätten. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt.
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2026). Inklusion und Transformation im Lehr-Lern-Labor für Inklusive Bildung an der Universität Innsbruck. In R. Schroeder, L. Bächler, S. Fränkel & J. Goldan (Hrsg.), Inklusion – Bildung – Transformation: Inklusive Bildung als Transformation – Transformation durch inklusive Bildung (297–304). Klinkhardt.
Bouvier, F., Gleirscher, L., Haller-Seeber, S., Hug, T., Kaiserer, M. & Sonntag, M. (2025). Innovative teaching and learning approaches in learning labs: Insights into the Media, Inclusion & AI Space of the INNALP Education Hub. Medienimpulse, 63(1), 33 pages.
Presentations
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2026). On the Trail of Collaboration – Video Insights into Cooperative and Collaborative Learning by Students using Diversity-sensitive Teaching and Learning Materials.
ECER Conference 2026, Tampere.
Gleirscher, L. (2026). Development and Stability of Achievement Motivation from Adolescence to Adulthood. SLLS Annual International Conference: Structure and Change in Critical Times—Implications for the Life Course, Brussels.
Part of the Symposium: Predictors and outcomes of motivational and self-esteem development and intergenerational transmission of learned helplessness: Findings and challenges from a long-term study (with S. Gadinger; J. Jung; N. Kritzinger; S. Freisem; W. Lauterbach)
Gleirscher, L. (2026). Lernwege planen mit der Differenzierungsmatrix. Praxisforum II: Von Impulsen zu Maßnahmen für adaptiven Unterricht, Baden-Wüttemberg.
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2026). Qualitätskriterien inklusionssensibler Bildungsmaterialien zwischen pädagogischem Anspruch, schulischer Praxis und hochschulischer Professionalisierung. 1. Jahrestagung der Sektion Inklusion, Diversität und soziale Ungleichheit (IDU) der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Forschung und Entwicklung im Bildungswesen (ÖFEB) in Graz: Inclusion under Threat.
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2025). Qualitative approaches to the development of sustainable teaching-learning formats in the teaching-learning laboratory for inclusive education. Qual.met /Symposium 25, Innsbruck.
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2025). Inclusion and transformation at the Teaching Learning-Laboratory for Inclusive Education at the University of Innsbruck. 13th Alter Conference: Transformation.
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2025). The Dialectical Relationship of Inclusion and Transformation at the Teaching-Learning-Laboratory for Inclusive Education at the University of Innsbruck. 38th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers in Cologne: Inclusion - Education - Transformation.
Sonntag, M. & Gleirscher, L. (2025). The Teaching-Learning-Laboratory for Inclusive Education at the University of Innsbruck as a place of innovative change in inclusive learning settings. University Learning Workshop Conference in Halle/Saale: Learning Workshop & Utopia(s). Perspectives on sustainable development in higher education and society.