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Manuela Freiheit is a Research Fellow at Bielefeld University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Conflict and Violence Research (IKG), where she serves as Project Employee, Research Associate, and Middle Management IKG. She also maintains affiliation with the Center for Childhood and Youth Research (ZKJF).
Her academic background includes a sociology degree from the University of Konstanz and Free University of Berlin. From 2008-2011, she was a doctoral fellow in the DFG Research Training Group "Group-Focused Hostility: Causes, Phenomenology, Consequences" at IKG, and served as a visiting scholar at Columbia University in 2011.
Dr. Freiheit's research specializes in extremism and radicalization, with particular focus on right-wing and Islamist extremism, prevention strategies, spatial/social inequality, and qualitative methodologies. Her work contributes significantly to Bielefeld University's strategic research area of "The Changing World," examining societal dynamics and social institutions.
She has led multiple major research initiatives including the RADIS transfer project on "Social Causes and Effects of Radical Islam in Germany and Europe" (2020-present), the MAPEX research network on prevention of Islamist radicalization (2017-2021), and projects analyzing right-wing extremism (2015-2017) and multiple offending in adolescence (2012-2014).
As part of IKG, one of Bielefeld's Central Academic Institutes, her work exemplifies the university's interdisciplinary approach to complex societal issues, combining expertise from multiple faculties while maintaining strong connections with policymakers and civil society stakeholders.