Kerstin Martens

Academic education

2008
Certificate "Qualification in Higher Education Didactics"
Nationally recognized curriculum for training and continuing education in higher education didactics
Cooperation of the Universities of Bremen, Oldenburg and Osnabrück

June 2003
Ph.D. Thesis
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Title: NGOs in the UN System - A Study of Institutionalised Relations between Societal Actors and the United Nations
Supervisor: Thomas Risse (now Freie Universit?t Berlin)

January - May 2001
Studies of Public Administration at New York University (NYU), New York, USA

1999 - 2003
Doctoral studies in political and social sciences
European University Institute Florence, Italy

September 1998
M.A. Dissertation
University of Nottingham, Great Britain
Title: NGOs, IGOs and International Relations Theory - A Case Study of the Relationship between NGOs and UNESCO.

1997 - 1998
Studies International Relations
Master of Arts (M.A.) in "International Relations", University of Nottingham, Great Britain

1996 - 1997
Studies in Political Science and International Law
Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Bordeaux, France

1994 - 1996
Studies of Political Science, Modern History, and Applied Cultural Studies at the University of Münster, Germany

Professional activities

since 2009
Professor for International Relations and World Society at the University of Bremen

2007 - 2009
Junior Professor for International Relations and World Society at the University of Bremen

2007
Karl W. Deutsch Visiting Professor at the Social Science Research Center Berlin

2003 - 2006
Research assistant in the research project "Internationalization of Educational Policy" at the University of Bremen

1998 - 1999
Collaboration in the research project "Election Rhetoric in Germany, Sweden, Great Britain and the United States" at the Universities of Nottingham and Greifswald

1994 - 1998
Various internships during studies, e.g. at the UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg and at the Goethe Institute, Mumbai (Bombay)

1993
After graduating from high school, eight-month stay as language assistant at Portree High School, Isle of Syke, Scotland

Reviewer activities

Reviewer for the German Research Foundation

Reviewer for the European Science Foundation

Reviewer for the Research Council of Norway

Reviewer for the Danish National Research Foundation

Reviewer for the Academy of Finland

Reviewer for the German National Academic Foundation

Regular commission member for the final selection in the Carlo-Schmid-Program "Internships in International Organizations

Reviewer for various journals, publishers and institutions in political science, international relations and educational science

Scholarships and awards

2014
Contribution to the symposium "New Research on Global Policies in Education" (awarded as best symposium of the "American Education Research Association 2014")

2010
Inclusion in the AcademiaNet portal
Robert Bosch Foundation

August - September 2008
German Academic Exchange Service, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
Johns Hopkins University, Washington

2007 until 2012
Member of the Young Academy (5-year membership) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2001 to 2003
"Completion Grant" of the European University Institute, scholarship for the completion of the dissertation project

1999 - 2001
German Academic Exchange Service, Graduate Scholarship

1994 - 1998
German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Study Scholarship

1997 - 1998
German Academic Exchange Service, one-year scholarship

April 1998
Harold Howitt Travelling Scholarship, University of Nottingham, Great Britain

Further stays abroad

February to May 2018
"Visiting Scholar," Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University, Boston, USA.
Working on the research project: "The Appeal of Numbers? Measurement and Standardization in Federal Education Systems."

March/April 2014
"Visiting Fellow," American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, USA.
Working on the research project: "Life, Death and Survival of International Organizations 1815-2015".

November to December 2010
"Visiting Fellow", American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, USA
Working on the research project on "I do it my way: American Education Reform Processes in Isolation"

August - September 2008
"Senior Fellow, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, USA
Research project on "Why is there no PISA shock in the US: A comparison of German and American education policy"

November 2006
?Visiting Scholar”, European University Institute, EUI, Italien, European Forum: Assessing the Quality of Education and Its Relationships with Inequality in European and Other Modern Societies
Presentation of the project ?Internationalisierung von Bildungspolitik”.

November 2004
?Visiting Fellow”, Center for Globalisation and Policy Research, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Research on the project ?Internationalisierung von Bildungspolitik”.

November 2001
?Visiting Researcher”, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Januar - Mai 2001
?Global Exchange Scholar”, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University (NYU)