Prof. Dr. Alexandra König - Research Projects

Self-Positioning in transnational spaces – Children's narrations and narrations about children living in transnational families (TraNa)

Researchers: Prof. Dr. Alexandra König (PI), Dr. Jessica Schwittek (PI), and Katarzyna Jendrzey, MA (University of Duisburg-Essen); Prof. Dr. Dorota Michułka (PI) and Sabina Świtała (University of Wrocław); Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik (Polish Academy of Sciences Warszawa)

Duration: 2025-2027

Third-party donor: DFG and NCN

GEPRIS: 465048370

Good Parents – Adoption Services in Germany from the Perspective of Applicants and Mediators

Researchers: Prof. Dr. Alexandra König and Dr. Arne Niederbacher (TU Dortmund)

Duration: 2024-2027

Third-party donor: DFG

GEPRIS: 524945366

Growing up in transnational families. Children's perspectives on "good childhood" (DoDzi)

Researchers: Prof. Dr. Alexandra König (PI), Dr. Jessica Schwittek, and Katarzyna Jendrzey, MA (University of Duisburg-Essen); Prof. Dr. Dorota Michułka (PI) and Dr. Zofia Zasacka (Book and Readers Institute, National Library)

Duration: 2022-2024

Third-party funding: DFG und NCN

GEPRIS: 465048370

Theh Animal-Human Relationship

Researchers: Prof. Dr. Alexandra König, Prof. Dr. Annette Schnabel

Duration: ongoing

Funding: Self-funded 

Self-orientation and Independent Learning: An Analysis of Socialisation- and Learning Environments of Primary School Students (SEBI)

Lead: Prof. Dr. Bühler-Niederberger, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Gräsel, Dr. Alexandra König

Contributors: Miriam Böttner (M.A.), Aytüre Türkyilmaz (1st state examination)

Duration: 2011-2014

Third-party donor: BMBF

​Between Family, Peers and School – A Childhood-Sociological Analysis of the Social Spheres of Refugee Children

Lead: Prof. Dr. Bühler-Niederberger

Contributor: Dr. Alexandra König

Duration: 2008-2011

Third-party donor: DFG

Growing up in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan – Germany. Study Project: Structures and Conditions of Growing Up

Lead: Prof. Dr. Bühler-Niederberger, Dr. Alexandra König

Duration: 2009-2012

Third-party donor: DAAD