Dr Ricarda Gugg completed her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in pedagogy and educational science at Paris Lodron University between 2010 and 2022. She worked at PLUS as a research assistant from 2015 and as a university assistant from 2017, contributing to numerous research projects. Since 2024, she has been working as the regional coordinator for educational programmes at the Upper Austrian Youth Red Cross. Research interests: educational inequality and equity, critical educational research, discourses on social values, educational research on migration
Publications (selection)
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Media representations of the discourse on values, using the ‘headscarf debate’ as an example. In: Conflict & Communication online (cco), Vol. 19, No. 1 (2020).
[with Wassilios Baros & Thomas Theurer]: ‘A bit of a mess, could be refugees or a boat party…’. Student positioning patterns regarding the media representation of flight. In: Journal of Political Psychology (ZfPP), Vol. 7, No. 2 (2019), pp. 200–218.
Editorships
[with Wassilios Baros, Heinz Sünker & Sabine Coelsch-Foisner] (eds.): Utopia and Resistance: Bloch, Ideological Critique and Education. In: Conflict & Communication online (cco), Vol. 20, No. 2 (2021). (Peer-reviewed journal)
[with Wassilios Baros, Solvejg Jobst & Thomas Theurer] (eds.): Educational Challenges in the Global Migration Society: Critical Contributions to Educational Migration Research. Series: European Education in Dialogue. Science, Politics, Practice. Berlin et al.: Peter Lang 2020.
Articles in anthologies
[with Cornelia Brandstötter]: Experiences of otherness as a catalyst for educational processes? In: Brandstetter, B., Gmainer-Pranzl, F., Greiner, U. (eds.): From ‘beautiful diversity’ to precarious heterogeneity. Educational processes in a pluralistic society. Salzburg Interdisciplinary Discourses. Berlin et al.: Peter Lang 2021, pp. 611–623
[with Wassilios Baros & Thomas Theurer]: Patterns of student positioning towards the visual representation of flight in the media. In: Braches-Chyrek, R., Kallenbach, T., Müller, Ch. & Stahl, L. (eds.): Educational and Participation Opportunities for Refugees. Critical Discussions in Social Work. Opladen: Barbara Budrich 2019, pp. 211–229.
