{"id":1581,"date":"2021-06-20T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T17:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/sozgov\/?page_id=1581"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:17:38","slug":"nina-brandau","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/sozgov\/en\/team-en\/nina-brandau\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Nina Brandau"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2635 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/sozgov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/841\/2022\/09\/IMG_5043-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Brandau\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-credit=\"Brandau\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/sozgov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/841\/2022\/09\/IMG_5043-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hsu-hh.de\/sozgov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/841\/2022\/09\/IMG_5043-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/h2>\n<div class=\"ansprechparter-container\">\n<div class=\"row ansprechpartner-item ansprechparter-header\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-8 col-lg-12\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px\">\n<h3 class=\"ansprechparter-headline\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n<div class=\"mobile-small\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-4 col-lg-3 col-xs-4 ansprechpartner-item floatright img-circle center-block\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px\">\n<div class=\"img-responsive-wrapper\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-lg-3 col-xs-12 ansprechpartner-item kontakt floatright\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-12\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-lg-4 row-text bold\">Room:<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-lg-8 row-text\">218, H4<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-12\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-lg-8 row-text\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Meta Corr Offc W01 Bold', 'PT Sans', sans-serif;font-weight: bold\">E-Mail:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-lg-12\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-12 row-text\"><a href=\"mailto:nina.brandau@hsu-hh.de\" rel='nofollow'>nina.brandau@hsu-hh.de\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6 col-lg-3 col-xs-12 ansprechpartner-item anschrift floatright\">\n<div class=\"row-headline\">Visiting address<\/div>\n<div class=\"row-text\">Helmut-Schmidt-Universit\u00e4t<\/div>\n<div class=\"row-text\">Building H4<\/div>\n<div class=\"row-text\">Holstenhofweg 85<\/div>\n<div class=\"row-text\">22043 Hamburg<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6 col-lg-3 col-xs-12 ansprechpartner-item anschrift floatright\">\n<div class=\"row-headline\">Postal address<\/div>\n<div class=\"row-text\">Helmut-Schmidt-Universit\u00e4t<\/div>\n<div class=\"row-text\">Postfach 70 08 22<\/div>\n<div class=\"row-text\">22008 Hamburg<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal information<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Research profile<\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Participatory design of digital technologies\/ critical co-design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EdTech\/ educational technologies in the school context<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>School development in the culture of digitality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethnographic research in hybrid educational environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Vita<\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>since <strong>May 2021<\/strong>: Research assistant at Helmut Schmidt University in the dtec-project \u201eSmart Schools \u2013 SMASCH\u201c, project lead: <abbr title=\"Professor\">Prof.<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Doktor\">Dr.<\/abbr> Sigrid Hartong (Professorship for Transformation of Governance in Education and Society)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>11\/2019 &#8211; 04\/2021<\/strong>: Education Policy Officer, Bitkom e.V.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017 &#8211; 2019<\/strong>: Study of \u201eEuroculture: Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context\u201c (M.A.) at Georg-August-Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Main focus: Cultural transfers and German-Scandinavian networks, national minorities, European public sphere; Master thesis: \u201eCultural Transfers between German and Swedish Theatre in the early 20th Century. The Reception and Function of German Theatre in Sweden\u201c.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2016-2017<\/strong>: Student assistant at a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, University of Cologne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015-2016<\/strong>: Erasmus study abroad at Uppsala University, Sweden. Main focus: Language sociology and liguistics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013-2017<\/strong>: Study of Mediaculture und Scandinavian Studies (B.A.) at University of Cologne. Main focus: media and cultural theories, Scandinavian literature of the 20th century; Bachelor thesis: \u201eThe German theatre in Sweden. Max Reinhardt\u2019s guest plays in Stockholm, 1911-1920\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Current projects<\/summary>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smasch.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Project Smart Schools (SMASCH)<\/a>.\u201d (since January 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OPAL research project (duration 48 months) to accompany and support schools in the development of sustainable, pedagogically meaningful and demand-oriented digitalization concepts that have an appropriate and target-adequate effect in the medium and long term.<br>Funded by the Center for Digitalization and Technology Research of the German Armed Forces (<a href=\"http:\/\/dtec.bw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dtec.bw<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In funding phase I (2021-2024), schools were supported in developing sustainable, pedagogically meaningful, and needs-based digitalisation concepts that have an appropriate and targeted effect in the medium and long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In funding phase II (2024-2025), a transnational school development platform for a self-confident and critical-reflective approach to digital topics will be developed together with schools from five European countries.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Publications<\/summary>\n<p>Brandau, Nina &amp; Hartong, Sigrid (2025)&nbsp;<strong>Die Macht graphischer Datenvisualisierungen. Eine &#8222;Einstiegst\u00fcr&#8220; in die kritisch-partizipative Auseinandersetzung mit Bildungsplattformen<\/strong>. In: Hofhues, S. &amp; Sch\u00fctz, J. (eds.),&nbsp;Plattformen f\u00fcr die Bildung<em>.<\/em>&nbsp;Bielefeld, transcript Verlag: 243-259.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decuypere, Mathias; Brandau, Nina; Hartong, Sigrid; Joecks, Lucas; Ortegon, Carlos; Loft-Akhoondi, Anja; Vanermen, Lanze (2025) <strong>Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography<\/strong>. In: Learning, Media and Technology: 1\u201315. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17439884.2025.2458667\" rel='nofollow'>Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina (2024) <strong>Partizipative und kritisch-reflexive Gestaltung von Lernmanagementsystemen im individuellen Schulkontext<\/strong>. Dissertation thesis. <a href=\"https:\/\/openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de\/entities\/publication\/17051\/full\" rel='nofollow'>Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina &amp; Hartong, Sigrid (2024) <strong>Visualising the school: a critical study on co-designing a Moodle-based learning management system<\/strong>. In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Online first. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/01596306.2024.2400229\" rel='nofollow'>Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decuypere, Mathias; Hartong, Sigrid; Brandau, Nina; Joecks, Lucas; Loft-Akhoondi, Anja; Orteg\u00f3n, Carlos; Tierens, Toon &amp; Vanermen, Lanze (2024)&nbsp;<strong>Maneuvering constellations of valuation: a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector<\/strong>. In: Critical Studies in Education: 1-20. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17508487.2024.2362196\" rel='nofollow'>Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina (2024)&nbsp;<strong>Was steckt in Lernmanagementsystemen und welche Implikationen ergeben sich hieraus f\u00fcr die digital-m\u00fcndige Schulentwicklung? Eine Studie zu LMS.lernen.hamburg<\/strong>. In: Hartong, S. &amp; Renz, A. (eds.), Digitale Lerntechnologien. Von der Mystifizierung zur reflektierten Gestaltung von EdTech. Bielefeld, transcript Verlag: 63-85. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcript-verlag.de\/media\/pdf\/a0\/fe\/06\/oa9783839468937.pdf\" rel='nofollow'>Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hartong, Sigrid; Loft-Akhoondi, Anja; Brandau, Nina; Junne, Barbara; Czarnojan, Izabela &amp; Scheytt, Tobias (2023)\u00a0<strong>Auf dem Weg zur Digitalit\u00e4t in Schule. Zwischenbericht \u00fcber Interventionen und Explorationen im Rahmen des Projekts \u201eSMASCH \u2013 Smarte Schulen\u201c<\/strong>.\u00a0Working Papers of the research cluster OPAL at the Helmut Schmidt University. <a href=\"https:\/\/openhsu.ub.hsu-hh.de\/handle\/10.24405\/14955\" rel='nofollow'>Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cafantaris, Karola; Brandau, Nina &amp; Hartong, Sigrid (2023) <strong>Suchbewegungen und Ans\u00e4tze nachhaltiger digitaler Schulentwicklung am Beispiel des Projekts \u201aSmarte Schulen\u2018 (SMASCH).<\/strong> In: MedienP\u00e4dagogik: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Theorie Und Praxis Der Medienbildung 52 (gerecht \u2013 digital \u2013 nachhaltig): 129-48. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medienpaed.com\/article\/view\/1356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina &amp; Alirezabeigi, Samira (2022) <strong>Critical and participatory design in-between the tensions of daily schooling: working towards sustainable and reflective digital school development.<\/strong> In: Learning, Media and Technology. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17439884.2022.2156538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Presentations<\/summary>\n<p>Hartong, Sigrid; Brandau, Nina (2025)\u00a0<strong>Postdigital EdTech Design \u2013 Moving towards Planetary Dimensions, Power, and Care<\/strong>. Symposium organization in the context of the European Conference of Education Research (ECER), Belgrade, 09.-12.09.2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina (2025) <strong>Critically Co-Designing EdTech. (In) how (far) can sociotechnical environments be designed in a reflexive and participatory manner?<\/strong> Presentation at the European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies, Z\u00fcrich, 18.-20.06.2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina (2025) <strong>Vorstellung der SMASCH-Labcademy<\/strong>. Further training as part of the series &#8222;Medienkompetenz zwischen Theorie und Praxis&#8220;, Flensburg, 27.05.2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau Nina (2024)&nbsp;<strong>Visualising the school?! A critical study on co-designing data-based interfaces of learning management systems<\/strong>. Presentation at the Datapower Conference, Graz, 04.-06.09.24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau Nina (2024)&nbsp;<strong>Critical and Participatory Design in-between the tensions of daily schooling. Working towards inclusive and reflective digital school development from an STS perspective<\/strong>. Presentation at the annual congress of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Amsterdam, 16.-19.07.24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hartong, Sigrid; Brandau, Nina; Loft-Akhoondi, Anja &amp; Decuypere, Mathias (2024)&nbsp;<strong>Schulentwicklung in der Digitalit\u00e4t \u2013 Einblicke in das Projekt SMASCH (Smarte Schulen)<\/strong>. Panel \u201eIch krieg die Krise \u2013 Professionalisierung in der Digitalit\u00e4t zwischen Routine und Revolution\u201c, annual congress of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE), Halle, 10.-13.03.2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina &amp; Hartong, Sigrid (2023)&nbsp;<strong>Visualising the school?! A critical study on co-designing a Moodle-based learning management system<\/strong>. presentation at the annual conference of the Educational Research Association (EERA) 2023 (ECER), Glasgow, 22-25.08.23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina (2023)&nbsp;<strong>How can a more reflected and democratic engagement with educational technology be achieved by reflexive, participatory and context-based design processes<\/strong>? Poster presentation at the Summer School of the Educational Research Association (EERA), Porto, 26.-30.06.23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cafantaris, Karola &amp; Brandau, Nina (2023)&nbsp;<strong>What is \u201asustainable\u2018 digital school development?<\/strong>&nbsp;SIIVE Jahreskonferenz 2023, Berlin, 09.03.2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina (2022)&nbsp;<strong>Using Critical and Participatory Design for sustainable and reflective digital school development? SMASCH in-between the tensions of daily schooling.<\/strong>&nbsp;Network meeting of the Technical Democracy Network as part of the Australian Association for Education Research Annual Conference, Adelaide, 01.12.22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Junne, Barbara &amp; Brandau, Nina (2022)&nbsp;<strong>Nachhaltige Digitalisierung in Schulen aus Sicht der Forschung. Herausforderungen und Chancen<\/strong>. 12th local education conference in Sasel\/Wellingsb\u00fcttel \u201eUnser Stadtteil smart \u2013 Sasel und Wellingsb\u00fcttel im digitalen Zeitalter\u201d, online, 06.10.22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cafantaris, Karola &amp; Brandau, Nina (2022)&nbsp;<strong>Suchbewegungen und Ans\u00e4tze nachhaltiger digitaler Schulentwicklung am Beispiel des Projekts \u201aSmarte Schulen\u2018 (SMASCH).<\/strong>&nbsp;Contribution in the context of the conference \u201eGerecht, digital, nachhaltig! Interdisziplin\u00e4re Perspektiven auf Lehr- und Lernprozesse in der digitalen Welt\u201c, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, 20.05.2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina (2021)&nbsp;<strong>Critical design as a tool for comparative school development research? Developing sustainable digitisation strategies in Germany and Belgium.<\/strong>&nbsp;Contribution to the winter school \u201eInternational and comparative education science goes digital?! (Pandemische) Herausforderungen und (neue) M\u00f6glichkeiten der Digitalisierung f\u00fcr die (Nachwuchs-)Forschung\u201c, Commission for Comparative and International Educational Science at Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Erziehungswissenschaft, online, 9.-10.12.2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandau, Nina (2019)&nbsp;<strong>Cultural Transfers between German and Swedish Theatre in the early 20th Century.<\/strong>&nbsp;Contribution in the context of the 4th U4 Network Workshop \u201eConcepts and Tools in Cultural Transfer. 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