Annual topic 2025/2026 | University of Tübingen

(In-)Equity in education and educational institutions - first generation academics

Members of the core group

Prof. Dr. Regina Ammicht Quinn (International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities)

Prof. Dr. Taiga Brahm (Economic Education, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Prof. Dr. Astrid Franke (American Studies, English Department, Faculty of Humanities)

Prof. Dr. Caterina Gawrilow (School Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science)

Prof. Dr. Dorothee Kimmich (Modern German Literary Studies, German Department, Faculty of Humanities)

Prof. Dr. Isabel Laack (Study of Religions and Non-European History of Religions, Institute for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Humanities)

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yağmur Mengilli (Social Pedagogy, Institute of Education, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Prof. Dr. Boris Nieswand (Sociology, with focus on Migration and Diversity, Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Prof. Dr. Ursula Offenberger (Methods of Empirical Social science research, Methods Centre, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Flora Petrik (Foundations of Education, Institute of Education, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Prof. Dr. Markus Rieger-Ladich (Foundations of Education, Institute of Education, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Prof. Dr. Marcus Syring (School Education, Institute of Education, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences)

Visiting Professor: Anandi Mani (University of Oxford)

Anandi Mani is Professor of Behavioural Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. Her research interests are in the area of Development Economics, with a specific focus on issues related to the behavioural economics of poverty and social exclusion, gender issues and public good provision. She is a Research Affiliate at Ideas42, a think tank for behavioural economics at Harvard University, and a Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at the University of Warwick.

Her recent work has been published in prominent economics journals and has also featured in leading newspapers including The New York Times and The Guardian, as well as the BBC.

Professor Mani was a programme participant at the World Economic Forum 2017 in Davos and is a member of the Forum's Global Council on the Future of Behavioral Sciences.