Research interests
- Global Citizenship Education
- European Political Education
- Transnational Perspectives in Education Policy Cross-Sector Collaboration between Schools and NGOs Educational Networks
Professional experience
since 04/2023, Research associate and doctoral candidate in the project "The 'start of a beautiful friendship?' - Comparative study of German and Israeli school-NGO interactions across different socio-economic strata" at the Chair of Erziehungs- und Sozialisationstheorie, University of Potsdam.
2022-2023 Research stay at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
2021-2023 Research associate in the ARCHES project at the Chair of Political Education and Education Systems, University of Leipzig.
2019-2021 Research assistant for the Arqus University Alliance, Action Line 7 "Engaged European Citizens" at the University of Leipzig.
2019-2020 Study of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
2017-2018 Study at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
2014-2020 Study of teacher education for secondary schools (English, Social Studies/Legal Education/Economics & German as a Second Language) at the University of Leipzig.
Publications
Hansen, L., & Kolleck, N. (2025). Citizenship education in Central and Eastern Europe: Perspectives and desiderata of transnationally networked NGOs. In N. Kolleck & I. P. Karolewski (Eds.), Rethinking citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe: Insights from education and political research (pp. 241–256). Bristol University Press.
Schuster, J., Kolleck, N., & Hansen, L. (2025). Transnational education networks. In N. Kolleck (Ed.), Handbook of social network analysis and education (pp. 521–536). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Slavkova, L., Sichtermann, L., Mužina, D., Goldstein, K., Hahn-Madole, K., Hansen, L., Jacobetty, P., & Kolleck, N. (2025). Between disruption and resilience: A 35-country overview of civic education in Europe (L. Slavkova, Ed.). THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. https://mapping.thecivics.eu/docs/Mapping-CE-in-Europe_BetweenDisruptionandResilience_Report_THE-CIVICS.pdf
Hansen, L., & Kolleck, N. (2024). “Never let a good crisis go to waste”? Transnational NGO networks’ power in citizenship education. Journal of Education Policy, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2024.2431970
Hansen, L., & Eschweiler-Dienerowitz, E. (2024). Global Citizenship Education für angehende Lehrkräfte: ein Studienkollegsseminar für Multiplikator*innen in der globalisierten (Bildungs-)Welt. In J. Scharfenberg, J. Hufnagl, M. Spiekenheuer, & A. Kroner (Eds.), Gemeinsam Schule gestalten: Band 5. Migration und Bildung in der globalisierten Welt: Perspektiven, Herausforderungen und Chancen in der Migrationsgesellschaft (pp. 115–128). Waxmann.
Hansen, L. (2019). Umgang mit rechtsextremer Diskriminierung im Unterricht. In F. Fink & J. Klusmann (Eds.), Kritisches Lehramtsportfolio (2. Auflage, pp. 38–47). Referat für Lehramt des Student_innenRates der Universität Leipzig.