Prof Dr Mandy Singer-Brodowski

Since 10/2025
Spokesperson of the Institute of Educational Science 2

Since 2024
Chair in Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Regensburg

2021/2022
Visiting Professor of Sustainability within the European university network UNA Europa

2019/2020
Visiting Professor of Transformative Education at the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt

2019
Research visit to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver

2016-2024
Project coordination and management of various research projects at Freie Universität Berlin

2016
Research Coordinator at the Centre for Transformation Research and Sustainability (TransZent) at the University of Wuppertal

2012-2015
Researcher in Sustainable/Transformative Science at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

2011-2015
PhD at Leuphana University of Lüneburg

2008-2011
Studied Special and Inclusive Education at the University of Erfurt

2008-2009
Parental leave

2004-2008
Studied Education and Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt

An overview of all publications can be found here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mandy-Singer-Brodowski (external link, opens in a new window)

Recent Publications:

Holfelder, Anne-Katrin; Costa, Jana; Hufnagl, Julia; Kminek, Helge; Singer-Brodowski, Mandy; Taube, Dorothea et al. (2026): Spannungsfelder im Forschungsfeld Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung Ambivalenzen und Widersprüche in der Konzeption, Vermittlung und Aneignung von BNE. 1st. Leverkusen-Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich (Schriftenreihe "Ökologie und Erziehungswissenschaft" der Kommission Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE))

Ehras, Christina; Singer-Brodowski, Mandy; Costa, Jana; Hemmer, Ingrid; Brenne, Andreas; Brok, Ulrike et al. (2026): Professionalisation of Teachers for Education for Sustainable Development in Germany: A Scoping Review. In: Research in Subject-matter Teaching and Learning (RISTAL) 9 (1), S. 1-64. DOI: 10.2478/ristal-2026-0001. 

Singer-Brodowski, Mandy (2026): BNE: Eine wissenschaftliche Verortung. In: Astrid Carrapatoso, Steve Kenner, Claudia Bergmüller-Hauptmann, Nilda Inkermann und Volker Reinhardt (Hg.): Handbuch Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Zur Bedeutung von Bildung in gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen. Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau Verlag (UTB, 6380). 

Costa, Jana; Kminek, Helge; Ruckelhauß, Teresa; Singer-Brodowski, Mandy; Weselek, Johanna (2025): Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung: Kontroversen und Debatten. Opladen [u.a.]: Verlag Barbara Budrich.

Singer-Brodowski, M., Henkel, G.M., Reith, A., Frank, P., Rieckmann, M. (2025). What is needed to act as a professional change agent for sustainability? A scoping review. In: International Review of Education. Journal of Lifelong Learning. 1–25.

Singer-Brodowski, M., Pätzold, H. (2024). Nachhaltigkeit und Weiterbildung(-sforschung). In: Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung. 47(3), S. 455-474.

Holst, J., Singer-Brodowski, M., Brock, A., de Haan, G. (2024). Monitoring of SDG 4.7: Assessing Education for Sustainable Development in Policies, Curricula, Training of Educators and Student Assessment (Input-Indicator). In: Sustainable Development. Artikel sd.2865, S. 1–16.

Grund, J., Singer-Brodowski, M., Büssing, A. (2024). Emotions and transformative learning for sustainability: A systematic review. In: Sustainability Science. 19, 307-324.

Kminek, H.; Singer-Brodowski, M.; Holz, V. (Eds.) (2024). Bildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung im Umbruch? Beiträge zur Theorieentwicklung angesichts ökologischer, gesellschaftlicher und individueller Umbrüche. Opladen [u.a.]: Verlag Barbara Budrich.

Here you will find a selection of my advisory board positions and my memberships in academic committees:

2025
Auditor for the sustainability audit of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK)

Since 2024
Member of the working group “Sustainability, Non-Sustainability, and Planetary Futures” at the German Society for Educational Research (DGfE)

Since 2024
Member of the Advisory Board of the Initiative for Future Education

Since 2017
Scientific Advisory Board of netzwerk n

Since 2016
Member of the Higher Education Forum of the UNESCO Global Action Program on ESD (2015–2019) and the UNESCO “ESD for 2030” program (since 2020)

2021–2024
Chair of the Section for Intercultural and International Comparative Educational Research (SIIVE) of the German Society for Educational Research (DGfE)

2018–2025
Board Member and Chair (2020–2023) of the Commission on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) of the German Society for Educational Research (DGfE)

2016–2018
Scientific Advisory Board for the Development of Objective Dimensions for ESD in Early Childhood Education for the House of Little Scientists Foundation (now: Children Research Foundation)

2015–2018
Transfer Audit of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft

2012–2014
Member of the German National Committee for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–2014)