Curriculum Vitae Elena Futter-Buck

Professional and research activities:

Since 2015 Academic coordinator, Diversity Research Institute, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Since 2025 Consultant on gender and diversity in teaching and studies, Equal Opportunities and Diversity Unit, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2009 - 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

Other activities in academia

Since 2026 Co-editor of the Open Access journal Diverse Societies (Emerald)
October 2023 - March 2024 The Guild's Gender & Diversity working group
2024 - 2026 Advisory Board member for the Erasmus+ project ROCKET
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

Projects at the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute (as coordinator or researcher)

2025-2027 IDenti-T - Interdisciplinary Dialogue on evolving identities in times of democratic Transformations (ENLIGHT Thematic Network)
2024-2025 Diversity und Diskriminierungsschutz weiterdenken (zukunft.niedersachsen)
2023-2024 Stadtlabor 2.0 - Wege zur kolonialkritischen Stadt
2023-2024 Follow-Up Studie Care, Career, Corona
2020-2022 Care, Career, Corona - Studie zum Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie auf die Arbeitsbedingungen und Zukunftschancen von Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen insbesondere mit Care-Verantwortung an der Universität Göttingen (Gleichstellungs-Innovations-Fonds, 2020)
2019-2020 Diversität, Teilhabe und Zusammenhalt in der Kommune
2016-2019 ACCOMPLISSH (ACcelerate CO-creation by setting up a Multi-actor PLatform for Impact from Social Sciences and Humanities) (EU Horizon 2020)

Selected further qualifications