Ariadna Ripoll Servant

Ariadna Ripoll Servent is a newly appointed Professor of Politics at the Salzburg Center of European Union Studies and the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Salzburg. Ripoll Servent studied at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris, at the College of Europe in Bruges and at the Sussex European Institute (University of Sussex) in Brighton (2008–2011), where she completed her PhD.

Ripoll Servent conducted research at the Institute for European Integration Studies at the University of Vienna (2011 – 2013) before joining the University of Bamberg as an assistant professor of political science, with a focus on European integration (2013 – 2021). From 2019 to 2020, she was a Jean Monnet Fellow and Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Ariadna Ripoll Servent has been a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2019.

Her research and teaching focus on issues of European integration, EU institutions, informal decision-making processes, populism and Euroscepticism, as well as EU domestic and security policies (especially asylum and migration policies).

Ripoll Servent’s work has been published in several high-profile journals, such as the “Journal of European Public Policy”. She is the author and editor of four books and is an editorial board member for the “Journal of European Integration”, “Migration Politics and Politics and Governance” and the “Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics” journal series.

Anke Uhlenwinkel

Anke Uhlenwinkel (born 1963 in Bremen) is a lecturer in geography and economics. After studying in Göttingen, she completed her teacher training in Bremen and went on to work at the Bertha-von-Suttner-Gesamtschule in Dormagen for four years. She then moved back to Bremen, where she began her doctoral studies at the university under Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schramke with a thesis entitled “Freiarbeit im Geographieunterricht. Programme, Practice, Perspectives” (“Independent work in geography lessons. Programmes, Practice, Perspectives”) and went on to complete her postdoctoral qualification, also under Prof. Schramke, on the topic “Blick zurück nach vorn. Zur Entwicklung der Geographiedidaktik in Deutschland seit 1969“ (“Looking back to the future. On the development of geography didactics in Germany since 1969”).

In the years following, Uhlenwinkel taught at universities in Potsdam, Lisbon, Valladolid, Gießen and Klagenfurt. She has also been involved in various – mostly international – projects (European Values Education, Young People on the Global Stage and GeoCapabilities). She is currently involved in both the INSERT project and the follow-up project, INSERT-Money.

Uhlenwinkel’s primary fields concern didactics, focussing on argumentation competence and progression. Problems with direct instruction methods are increasingly coming into focus, brought on especially by distance learning during the Corona pandemic.

The focus of her work is on the concepts of “powerful disciplinary knowledge” and “grey spaces”.

In terms of higher education policy, she is involved in issues concerning dismissed and publicly demoted female professors.