Heidelberg University of Education stands for high-quality, interdisciplinary and internationally networked educational research. Our core expertise lies in the investigation of educational, teaching and learning processes: Under what conditions does future-oriented and inclusive education succeed? How do we prepare teachers and other education experts for the challenges of the future?
The PHHD is shaping the education of tomorrow, research-based and practice-orientated. It also contributes to answering relevant social questions, with a particular focus on education for sustainable development (ESD), diversity and inclusion, democracy and media education as well as STEM education.
The PHHD is a university with a university profile with traditional doctoral and habilitation rights. We also see ourselves as a centre of excellence and driving force for educational research and development in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. Our research profile is characterised by its wide range of educational science topics and numerous international collaborations.
Our research profile
We dedicate our research to central social challenges in the field of education. Our focus is on educational research across the entire lifespan, inclusion and heterogeneity, language education and the digital transformation of teaching and learning processes. We also focus intensively on questions of professionalisation in education and interdisciplinary approaches to sustainable development.
Our research specialisms