Ann-Kathrin Schlieszus

Since 2026
Parental leave cover at the Chair of Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Regensburg

Since 2025
PhD project at the University of Regensburg, subject: Educational Science. Working title: ‘Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education – Areas of Tension in Dealing with the Normative Dimension of the Educational Concept’. Supervisor: Prof. Dr Mandy Singer-Brodowski

Since 2023
Research assistant in the National Monitoring Programme on Education for Sustainable Development, Institut Futur, Free University of Berlin

2020 – 2023
Research assistant on the projects “Learning to Teach Sustainability – Promoting ESD in Higher Education” and “Nalele:LevelUP – Strengthening the Embedding of ESD in Higher Education”, Heidelberg University of Education; coordinator of the Baden-Württemberg ESD Higher Education Network

2019 – 2020
Research Assistant at the Heidelberg Centre for Education for Sustainable Development, Heidelberg University of Education

2013 – 2020
Teacher training at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg. Subjects: Geography, French and Biology (secondary school teaching qualification)

Schlieszus, A.-K., Holst, J., Grauer, C. & Fischer, D. (2025). Leading sustainability. Future-oriented school development with the Whole School Approach. A toolkit for school management teams. In Greenpeace e. V. (Ed.), Schools for Earth – Das Greenpeace Schulprojekt. https://doi.datacite.org/dois/10.60813%2F8rpp-qt96 (external link, opens in a new window)

Holst, J., Brock, A., Grund, J., Schlieszus, A.-K., & Singer-Brodowski, M. (2025). Whole-school sustainability at the core of quality education: Wished for by principals but requiring collective and structural action. In Journal of Cleaner Production, 517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145897  (external link, opens in a new window)

Holst, J., Brock, A., Schlieszus, A.-K., & Grund, J. (2025). Zukunftsbildung: Wie gelingt Schule, die zu gesellschaftlicher Mitgestaltung motiviert? In bildungSPEZIAL 1/2025, friedrich Verlag, 26-31.

Schlieszus, A.-K., Weselek, J. & Siegmund, A. (2024). Navigating role conflicts and responsibilities in higher education for sustainable development. Insights from German university teachers. In T. Potthast, C. Brand, C. Bieling & von Wehrden, H. (Hrsg.), Sustainable development and ethics of science – mutual impulses and challenges. GAIA special issue 2024, 33(4), 333-418. 
https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.4.7 (external link, opens in a new window)

Schlieszus, A.-K. & Siegmund, A. (2024). Individuelle Umbrüche durch einen reflexiven Umgang mit Normativität – Wie Hochschullehrende bei Lernenden transformative Lernprozesse unterstützen können. In H. Kminek, V. Holz & M. Singer-Brodowski (Hrsg.), Ökologische, gesellschaftliche und individuelle Umbrüche und ihre Bedeutung für Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Opladen: Babara Budrich Verlag.
https://doi.org/10.3224/84742736 (external link, opens in a new window)