Vita

Vita – Kirsty Campbell

EDUCATION
  • Feb. 2021 – Apr. 2025: PhD at the Professorship of Insecurity and Social Order, Awarded with Summa cum laude (1,0)

    Thesis Title: Koloniale Kämpferinnen. Female Fighters for Empire: The role of German women in the perpetration of colonial violence in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1915

  • Sep. 2019 – Sep. 2020: Master of Science (M.Sc.) in “War Studies” at the University of Glasgow, Awarded with Distinction
  • Sep. 2015 – Jul. 2019: Master of Arts with Joint Honours in English Literature and History at theUniversity of Glasgow, Awarded with First Class Honour
  • Aug. 2002 – Jul. 2015:  Bilingual International Baccalaureate, Awarded with: 43 from 45 Points [official Abitur equivalence: 1,0]

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Jun. 2025 – ongoing

Post-Doc Research associate at the Professorship of Domestic Politics and Comparative Government

Work within the project RISK.twin and project SPARTA

University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Jul. 2023 – Jun. 2024

Research associate at Professorship of Insecurity and Social Order

Co-operative writing of successful funding application. Responsible for the scientific and administrative coordination and collaboration on scientific evaluation in the participatory research project DiREKt Roma: Discrimination and resilience. Memory and continuities among Roma.

DAAD -Research Scholarship

Sep. 2023 – Dec. 2023

 

Field research in Namibia

Networking, archival research and research on memory culture.

University Leipzig

May 2022 – Jun. 2023

Research associate at the Professorship of International Relations and Transnational Politics.

Responsible for the editorial management of the journal Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZeFKo), including public relations. Lecturing responsibilities at the professorship.

University of the Bundeswehr Munich

May 2021 – Jun. 2023

Research associate at the Professorship of Domestic Politics and Comparative Government

Work within the project RISK.twin:  Analysis of the political debate surrounding digital twins at the federal level, with a focus on political agenda-setting (Jun. 2022 – Jun. 2023)

Work within the project ReSiFo:  Analysis of the federal and EU funding landscape for resilience-building projects in Germany; reporting to the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (May 2021 – Jun. 2022)

Work within the project SPARTA:  Qualitative research on case study on the Capitol Hill Riot on 6 Jan. 2021; collaborative writing of peer-reviewed papers for publication (May – Dez. 2021).

University of Glasgow 

May 2019 – Apr. 2020

Research associate at the History Faculty

Participation in a 2-week research stay in Rwanda for a project focused on the collection and analysis of oral histories and to expand cooperation with the Rwandan Academy for Languages and Cultures (RALC).