Julia Hufnagl

// DISSERTATION PROJECT

Global Learning in the Workplace: A Cross-Country Multi-Level Analysis

Local and global social inequalities, climate change, species extinction, plastic pollution, pandemics – the crises of our time make it clear that a transformation is needed in various areas, including education. Any form of education should equip young people with skills to deal with relevant tensions and responsibilities of individual stakeholders. Concepts such as Global Learning, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCE) address how to contribute to global sustainable development and fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a holistic global understanding. Global Learning is considered one of the key abilities of the 21st century (Scheunpflug, 2022, p. 10). While Global Learning has already been subject to research in the general education school context, in volunteer work settings, and in higher education (e.g., Anderberg et al., 2009; Hunt, 2020; Richter, 2018), there is a lack of information on Global Learning in Vocational Education and Training (VET). Nevertheless, organizations increasingly must provide learning opportunities at the workplace to be successful in today’s ‘war for talent’ (Baert, 2018, p. 154). This is the starting point of my dissertation, which will shed light on company’s Global Learning activities and employee’s informal Global Learning behavior.

As a result, strategies and profiles with regard to Global Learning in companies are identified from both a corporate and an individual perspective, and the environment in which companies and individuals operate is defined. The dissertation provides valuable insights into lifelong learning in times of increasing shortage of skilled workers and migration movements in a globalized world.

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND  

2022 - today
PhD Candidate at the Professorship of Business Education (Prof. Dr. Silvia Annen) at the University of Bamberg, GER

2020 - 2022
Business Education (Minor: English) (M. Sc.) at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Semester Abroad at the Karl-Franzens University Graz, AUT

2016 - 2020
Business and Human Resource Education (Minor: English) (B. A.) at the Georg-August University Göttingen, GER, Additional qualification „Interculturality and Multilingualism / German as a Second and Foreign Language“

2014 - 2015
Business Management (Transfer Degree) at Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon, WA, USA (under the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for young professionals)

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

since 2017
Scholarship // e-fellows

2023
First Prize for outstanding Master's theses // Käthe und Ulrich Pleiß Foundation

2023
Congress travel bursary for participation in the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Glasgow, Scotland // German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2017 - 2022
Academic Study Sponsorship (Studienkolleg des Studienförderwerks Klaus Murmann) // Foundation of German Business

2021 - 2022
Scholarship for Studying Abroad at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz // Dr. Jutta Feldmeier Foundation

2021
DISCOVER – leadership training through arts Scholarship // "Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V." in cooperation with the Karl Schlecht Foundation

2020
Certificate in International Affairs Certificate (Focus Area: Integration and Diversity) // Awarded by the Georg-August University Göttingen

2020
Lehramt.international Scholarship for an Internship abroad in Bristol (GB) // DAAD

2016 - 2017
Academic Study Sponsorship // Awarded by Georg-August University Göttingen and Santander Universities

2014 - 2015
Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX) for young professionals // Awarded by German Bundestag and US-Congress

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// CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2023

Hufnagl, J. & Annen, S.: "Corporate Education for a Sustainable Future - Vocational Competencies in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"; Annual Conference of the DGfE Section Adult Education 2023 (Adult Education and Sustainability); Munich (Germany); 11-09-2023.

Hufnagl, J.: "Education for Sustainable Development in Companies"; Annual Conference 2023 of the Vocational and Business Education Section of the German Society for Educational Science (Freedom - Vocational Education - Responsibility) (Young Researcher); Flensburg (Germany); 06-09-2023.

Hufnagl, J.: "Perceptions of Discrimination by Migrants in Transition to VET - Differences by Origin Group and Gender"; The European Conference on Educational Research (ECER); Glasgow (UK); 25-08-2023.

Hufnagl, J.: "Global Learning in the Workplace - Companies' Response to Globalization"; EERA Emerging Researchers' Conference (ERC); Glasgow (UK); 22-08-2023.

Annen, S., Hufnagl, J., Murdoch, J., & Joseph, O.: "Returns to Education focusing on ICT skills - Empirical Results beyond pay Inequality"; 15th International Conference & 75th Anniversary of the JVET Journal; Oxford (UK); 15-07-2023.

Hufnagl, J., & Larsen, Y.: "Transformative Skills for Sustainability - Interdisciplinary Professionalization for a Sustainable Economy", Conference Interdisciplinary Teaching for Sustainable Development; Nuremberg (Germany); 15-06-2023.

Hufnagl, J.: "Gender Dynamics and Discrimination among Migrant Youth in the Vocational Training Market", Student Night of Gender Sensitive Research; Bamberg (Germany); 22-05-2023.

Hufnagl, J.: "Perceptions of Discrimination in the Transition to Vocational Education and Training from an Intersectional Perspective - An Exploration of the Limits of Quantitative Research," BIBB Colloquium; Bonn (Germany); 17-05-2023.

Hufnagl, J.: "Demands on Vocational Education Personnel as "Global Citizens" - Global Citizenship Education from a Business Education Perspective", 10th GEBF Conference (Young Scientists Conference) (Education between Uncertainty and Evidence); Essen (Germany); 27-02-2023.

Annen, S., St Denis, X., & Hufnagl, J.: "Family background and exits from overqualification in the UK and Germany", 7th International NEPS Conference; online; 06-12-2022.

Hufnagl, J.: "Perceived discrimination in transition to VET - an intersectional approach", 7th International NEPS Conference; online; 05-12-2022.

Hufnagl, J.: "Origin-specific differences in discrimination perceptions of migrant youth in access to VET", World Education Leadership Symposium (WELS) (School and Leadership between Revolution, Tradition and Exhaustion); online; 29-09-2022.

Hufnagl, J.: "Origin-specific Differences in Discrimination Perceptions of Adolescents with Migration Backgrounds in Access to Vocational Training", ÖFEB Pre-Conference (Educational Research in and for Times of Change); Graz (Austria); 20-09-2022.

Hufnagl, J.: "Origin-specific differences in the perception of discrimination of young people with a migration background in access to vocational training", Junior Researcher and Networking Day "Teacher education research" of the Universities of Augsburg, Bamberg and Regensburg (Professionalism in dealing with digitalisation and heterogeneity); Bamberg (Germany); 15-07-2022.

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// EXPERIENCE

TEACHING EXPIERIENCE

Summer Semester 2023

Professionalization of Vocational Education Personnel (Courses A and B)
Research Methods in Business Education (Courses A and B)

Winter Semester 2022/2023

Professionalization of Vocational Education Personnel (Courses A and B)

Summer Semester 2022

Professionalization of Vocational Education Personnel (Courses A and B)
Management of Educational Processes (Course C)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

since 2022
Doctoral Research Fellow at the Professorship of Business Education (Prof. Dr. Silvia Annen) at the University of Bamberg, GER

2021 - 2022
Student Research Assistant at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg, GER

2021 - 2022
Student Assistant at the Professorship of Business Education (Prof. Dr. Nicole Kimmelmann) at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, GER

2021 - 2021
Student Assistant at the Chair of Sociology, especially Social Structural Analysis (Prof. Dr. Cornelia Kristen) at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, GER

2017 - 2020
Student Assistant at the Chair of Production and Logistics (Prof. Dr. Matthias Klumpp) and at the Chairs of Statistics and Econometrics (Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib) at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, GER

2019 - 2019
Intern at the Chair of German Language and Culture (Prof. Dr. P.L.M. Paul Sars) at Radboud University Nijmegen, NL

2015 - 2015
Member of the Student Life Team at Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon, WA, USA

2014 - 2014
Service employee at Sparkasse Aichach-Schrobenhausen, GER

2011 - 2014
Vocational Training as a Bank Clerk at Sparkasse Aichach-Schrobenhausen, GER

VOLUNTARY EXPERIENCE

since 2020
Member of the Board of PPP Alumni e.V.

since 2020
Teamer for intercultural trainings (Cultural Vistas / GIZ)

2023
Member of the Organizing Team of the Transatlantic Alumni Conference 2023

2023
Member of the Organizing Team of the Wissenschaftstage 2023 of the "Studienförderwerk Klaus Murmann" of the Foundation of German Business

2022
Student Representation in the Accreditation Process of the Master's Program in Business Education, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2022)

2020 - 2022
Member of the Quality Circle of the Master's Degree Program in Business Education, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

2019 - 2020
Teaching Support at a Vocational School in the "Sprachförderprojekt für Geflüchtete" at the Professorship of Business Education, Georg-August University Göttingen

2019
Participation in the INTERREG Project "Nachbarsprache & buurcultuur" at the Chair of German Language and Culture, in particular German Studies, Radboud University of Nijmegen (Netherlands)

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

2023
Reviewer at Hochschultage Berufliche Bildung 2023

2023
Reviewer at 27. JURE 2023 Pre-Conference

2023
Deputy Managing Director of the Hochschultage Berufliche Bildung 2023

2022
Technical Support at the 9th GEBF Conference 2022

Review Activities

• German Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology
• Reihe "Gemeinsam Schule gestalten" (Waxmann-Verlag)
• Hochschultage Berufliche Bildung 2023
• 27. JURE 2023 Pre-Conference

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