Vita
Theresa Zanders has been a research assistant at the Institute of European Urban Studies since January 2020. She is part of the research team “KoopWohl“, a research project concerned with the study of urban co-production of public interest and participation.
She graduated in Intercultural Communication Studies at the faculty of cultural studies at the University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). During her studies her main focus lied on social and political sciences emphasizing mainly on critical migration studies as well as research on state institutions. She specialized in the latter doing research on deportation centers in Germany.
Previous to her engagement in the academic field, she was working as a social worker with migrants and refugees. Furthermore, she was working in a UNICEF Project, developing a violence-prevention-program for vulnerable refugees living in decentralized refugee homes in Weimar, Thuringia. In 2019 she was working in the field of intercultural opening in Thuringia, within a funded project by the Ministry of Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection, aimed to spread and promote intercultural competence in public administrations, civil organizations and companies.
In the project KoopWohl she is responsible for the case study in migration & health, concerned with the anonymous health care in Thuringia.