Scientist
Katharina Trostorff
Member of the e-teaching-Transfer Lab
Katharina Trostorff has been a research associate at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) since 2023. Her work focuses on university pedagogy, digital media, and transfer. As part of the e-teaching-Transfer lab and the project “e-teaching.org networked – a problem-oriented approach to connecting to the National Education Platform”, she is working with the team and the community to further develop the digital education space. Among other things, she deals with the question of how didactic problems underlying the extensive resources of e-teaching.org can be identified and systematized and how the portal content can be linked to the digital networking infrastructure in a meaningful way. In addition, she focuses on collaborating with people and initiatives that are committed to sustainable higher education and open educational resources (OER), on expanding the portal's community functions and on designing a system for recognizing informally acquired skills.
Her professional background includes expertise in education and communication science as well as many years of experience in teaching. Katharina Trostorff started her academic career with studies in journalism and communication science as well as business administration at the FU Berlin. Subsequently, she researched, taught, and published in the field of media, migration and gender and deepened her knowledge of qualitative research methods as well as postcolonial and feminist theories. Before joining the IWM, she spent several years working in the teaching service at Leuphana University Lüneburg. There, as a consultant for university teaching and blended learning, she was responsible for university teaching qualification programs, accompanied teaching projects on digital transformation and advised teachers on digitally supported teaching and examinations.