Curriculum Vitae Elena Futter-Buck

Professional and research activities:


  • May 2019 - October 2020
    Research associate in the project "Diversity, Participation and Cohesion in the Community", Diversity Research Institute, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • July 2016 - February 2019
    Research associate in the ACCOMPLISSH project (EU Horizon 2020), Diversity Research Institute, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Since September 2015
    Coordinator for administration and strategic development, Diversity Research Institute, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • 2009 - March 2016
    Research associate and educational developer, Saxon Centre for Teaching and Learning, Leipzig
  • 2008 - 2010
    PhD scholarship with the Friedrich Ebert foundation
  • 2008
    Research visit to the University of Huddersfield, UK
  • 2007 - 2008
    Project manager, Courage-Werkstatt für demokratische Bildungsarbeit e.V., Dresden
  • 2006
    Research assistant, Institute of Political Science, Universität Leipzig
  • 2005 - 2006
    Deputy project manager, Young Friends of the Earth Germany, Berlin
  • 2005
    Graduated in Political Science from Leipzig University
  • 1999 - 2005
    Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, student of Political Science, Sociology and Economics at Leipzig University

  • Freelance translator, facilitator and trainer



Service activities


  • October 2023 - March 2024
    Member of The Guild's Gender & Diversity working group
  • Safety officer, first aider
  • 2021 - 2022 Member of the appointment committee for the W2 professorship for sociology / sociological theory
  • October 2021 - March 2023
    Voting member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen
  • April to October 2021
    Deputy member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen
  • Since April 2020
    Member of the board of the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute
  • October 2018 - September 2021
    Member of the budget and structure committee, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen
  • April 2017 - March 2019
    Elected member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen
  • April 2017 - September 2018
    Deputy member of the budget and structure committee, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Göttingen
  • March 2017 - August 2018
    Member of the project group to develop a Mission statement for Teaching and Learning at the University of Göttingen
  • Since March 2017
    Member of the Diversity Steering Committee, University of Göttingen

  • Reviewer for
    Movements - Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies; GASP - Göttinger Arbeiten aus Sozial- und Politikwissenschaft