Publications Prof. Dr. Claudia Lohrenscheit

• Politics and human rights
• Political-historical education and remembrance work
• Gender, inclusion, diversity
• Anti-racism, anti-Semitism and protection against discrimination
• Sexual self-determination rights and LGBTIQ+
• Children's rights and human rights education
• International internship semester

Dr. Claudia Lohrenscheit is Professor of International Social Work and Human Rights at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences. She is an educational scientist and completed her doctorate with a thesis on human rights education in South Africa.
From 2003-2012, she was a research associate at the German Institute for Human Rights, where she headed the Human Rights Education Department with a focus on advocacy work and professional training and advice for various target groups (police, politicians and NGOs). Previously, she was deputy head of the Center for Educational Studies in the North-South Network at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. In this context, she coordinated exchange and training programs for teachers from the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa and Lower Saxony, who work with disadvantaged children and young people.
She lived and worked in Cape Town and Gqeberha/Port Elizabeth, South Africa for a long time. Her main areas of work and research are: Human rights education, protection against discrimination, inclusion, children's rights, gender and women's rights.