Lea Gelardi studied International Sociology at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and at the Università degli Studi di Trento in Trento. In 2016 she graduated with a double degree with a bachelor thesis on the presentation of the "refugee crisis" in the BILD newspaper and on (media) populism. From October 2016 to September 2018, she studied sociology and political science in the Interdisciplinary Master's programme of the KU and wrote her Master's thesis on a Bavarian transit centre, an accommodation facility for asylum seekers with low prospects of remaining in Germany permanently.
Since October 2018 she has been working as a research associate at the Centre for Flight and Migration in the field of education and coaching, where she has been working as a part-time research assistant since February 2017. Within the scope of her work at the ZFM she is responsible for the development and supervision of educational offers and projects in the field of flight and migration. In addition, she holds courses in the Department of Sociology at the KU.

• camps, accomodation for refugees
• borders, border and migration regimes

• Bavarian Virtual University course on flight and migration
• participation in the organisation and teaching of the Master's programme on Flight, Migration, Society
• Master Studies Summer Academy
• Student Research Weeks
• research project "Die (Un-)Durchlässigkeit von (Lager)Grenzen am Beispiel bayerischer Unterbringungseinrichtungen für Geflüchtete" on the (in)permeability of (camp) borders using the example of Bavarian accommodation facilities for refugees

• ISEP Student Research Weeks 2019: „Questioning the Familiar in Flight and Migration“
• Master Studies Summer Academy 2019: „Origin – Transit – Destination – Future“

• Netzwerk Migrations- und Fluchtforschung Bayern (NeMiF)

Summer term 2020

Seminar: Integration durch Bildung? (Bildungs-)Soziologische Perspektiven auf Integration (together with Elisabeth Beck and Melanie Schmitt)

Seminar: Process-oriented Sociology

previous courses and seminars

2019:

Seminar: Critical Border Studies (Summer term 2019)

2017:

Tutorial: Kunst als Politik. Die Documenta in Kassel und die Biennale in Venedig des Jahres 2017 und ihre historischen Hintergründe (Summer term 2017)

2016-2018:

Seminar: Einführung in die Soziologie (Winter term 2016/17, Winter term 2017/18)