Ulrike Krause

Ulrike Krause is Professor of Political Science with a focus on the constitution and politics of gender relations at the Institute of Political Science, University of Münster, a position she has held since August 2024. She is also an Affiliated Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre and the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, since June 2017. Her academic journey includes prior positions at Münster University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück University, Ruhr University Bochum, and Philipps-University Marburg. She earned her doctorate from Magdeburg University in 2012 and has professional experience in international cooperation (2008–2013) with organizations such as UNICEF, GIZ, DED, and World Vision, focusing on gender mainstreaming, refugee protection, and human rights.

• PhD, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (2012)
• Positions in international cooperation: Gender Mainstreaming, Refugee Protection, Human Rights (2008–2013)

Her research centers on gendered and postcolonial power relations in global and local politics, with a focus on conflict, displacement, and violence. She investigates intersectional perspectives on political agency, research ethics, and the production of (non-)knowledge in humanitarian contexts. Her regional focus spans global developments and African states, particularly Uganda. Her work critically engages with the colonial roots of the 1951 Refugee Convention, gender-based and sexualized violence, humanitarian policies, and refugee resilience.

Her recent publications reveal a strong thematic trajectory in feminist and postcolonial critiques of refugee governance, ethical field research, LGBTQ+ displacement, and peacebuilding from below. She consistently publishes in high-impact journals and contributes to policy debates through edited volumes and open-access platforms.

She leads a research team and mentors PhD students, including Nadine Segadlo and Hannah Edler. She has been instrumental in founding and editing key academic platforms such as the FluchtforschungsBlog and the Zeitschrift für Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung. She has also co-edited major publications like Externalizing Asylum and Report Globale Flucht.

Her advisory and grant-related work includes coordinating interdisciplinary research projects, developing ethical guidelines for forced migration studies, and contributing to public scholarship through blogs, policy briefs, and media engagement. She is deeply committed to participatory and ethically responsible research with displaced populations.

She is actively involved in research teams and editorial boards, including leadership of the work area on gender and forced migration at Münster. She also contributes to knowledge transfer through networks such as the German Network for Forced Migration Studies.