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Dr. Jozef Zelinka

Current affiliations

  • Professorship für international and comparative educational sciences (Prof. Parreira do Amaral)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Higher Education Research, especially focusing the transformation of higher education and the geopolitics of knowledge production
  • Life Course Research, with a particular focus on opportunity structures and vulnerabilities of young people
  • Michel Foucault’s Power Analytics with a particular focus on the methods of discourse analysis and dispositive analysis
  • Research on subjectivation

Academic Education

09/2013 - 01/2020Doctoral Studies of Political Science at the University of Muenster
09/2010 - 06/2012Master Studies of World Politics at the State University of Saint-Petersburg
09/2007 - 06/2010Bachelor Studies of the International Economic Relations at the University of Economics in Bratislava

Work Experience

since 07/2021Research assistant
08/2020 - 06/2021Gymnasium teacher
03/2020 - 12/2020Foreign language teacher
04/2018 - 04/2019Research assistant
04/2017 - 09/2018Lecturer
10/2014 - 03/2018Lecturer

Functions and Memberships

since 03/2022Working Group Subjectivation, The German Sociological Association (GSA)
since 03/2022Subdivision International Comparative Education, The German Educational Research Association (GERA)
since 11/2021WWU Centre for Europe
since 04/2019RYOT NETWORK - Research on Youth Opportunities and Transitions

Publications

Zelinka, Jozef; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo; Jergus, Kerstin
In: Salajan, Florin, D.; jules, d. tavis (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Academic Governance in Higher Education: Comparative Global Trends in an Age of Social and Political Challenges. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Zelinka, Jozef; Benasso, Sebastiano
In: Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo; Jornitz, Sieglinde; Amos, Karin S. (eds.), The Global Business of Education. Approaches, Issues, Critical Directions . Springer International Publishing.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Zelinka; Jozef; Jablonczay, Nikoletta; Zarifis, Gerorgios K.; Järvinen, Tero
In: Tikkanen, Jenni; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo; Järvinen, Tero; Alves, Natália (eds.), Constructing Learning Outcomes: Problematizing (Under)Achievement in Europe. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Neves, Tiago; Nata, Gil; Zelinka; Jozef; Alves, Natália
In: Tikkanen, Jenni; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo; Järvinen, Tero; Alves, Natália (eds.), Constructing Learning Outcomes: Problematizing (Under)Achievement in Europe. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Zelinka, Jozef, Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo (2025)
In: Cheng, Yi’En, Kraftl, Peter, Holloway, Sarah & Kučerová, Silvie Rita (eds.), Handbook on Geographies of Education . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
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Projects

Duration: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Research Unit
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2026 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Research Unit
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/10/2022 - 30/09/2025
Funded by: EC Horizon Europe - Research and innovation action
Type of project: EU-project hosted at University of Münster

Talks

Das (ausgebrannte) Subjekt im Präventionsdispositiv – Materialität und Macht des psychischen Leidens
Zelinka, Jozef (13/02/2025)
Materialität – Psychoanalyse – Subjekt, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Type of talk: scientific talk
Situating and Dynamizing Life Courses – The Analysis of Young People’s Subjectivation Processes in Finland, Germany, and Italy
Zelinka, Jozef; Scandone, Berenice; Tikkanen, Jenni (30/08/2024)
European Conference on Educational Resarch, The University of Cyprus
Type of talk: scientific talk
Between Spatial and Social Justice – The Case of Lifelong Learning Policymaking
Zelinka, Jozef; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo (04/06/2024)
Third International Conference of the Journal “Scuola Democratica”, University of Cagliari, Cagliari
Type of talk: scientific talk
Crises, Knowledge production, and non-scalable Epistemologies: (De-) Legitimizing (Education) Research
Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo; Zelinka, Jozef (11/04/2024)
On the (De)Legitimization of Epistemic Authority , Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Type of talk: scientific talk
Fähigkeiten, Erwartungen, Subjekte: Technologien der Macht im Diskurs um Schlüsselkompetenzen des 21. Jahrhunderts
Zelinka, Jozef (15/09/2022)
15. Bundeskongress der Zentren für Lehrer:innenbildung und Professional Schools of Education, Heidelberg
Type of talk: scientific talk
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Prizes

DAAD Forschungsstipendium für Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden
Awarded by: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Award given to: Zelinka, Jozef
Announced at: 01/07/2014
Type of distinction: Scholarship