Somewhere over the rainbow

Lotte Geunis is a researcher at the University of Maastricht with a passion for gender equality and LGBT. Previously, Lotte worked as parliamentary consultant at the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank. Lotte has an MPhil from the University of Oxford, an MA from the University of Leuven and a BA from the University of Warwick.

Berna Güryay (PhD) is an instructor at Dokuz Eylül University, English Language Teaching Department. Her research interests are second Language acquisition and creative drama. She believes in equality and tries to educate prospective teachers accordingly.

Oliver Holz, Prof. Dr. phil., M.A. (1970); MA in educational sciences and psychology; PhD in educational sciences; coordinator and organiser of European network(s); research with the emphasis on comparative educational science; employed at the KU Leuven, various publications on relevant educational Subjects.

Jarecka-Zyluk, Malgorzata, PhD, MA, MA in German filology, PhD in humanities; research with an emphasis on educational science, culture, cultural and ethnic minorities, sexual minorities, employed at the Pomeranian University in Stupsk an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Pedagogy; 27 years of experience in working in Higher Education, various publications related to culture, gender.

Justyna Ratkowska-Pasikowska, assistant professor at the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Lodz. Specialist in the scope of Psychological Aid in the Area of Sexology. Author of numerous scientific publications. Her interests include human sexuality, femininity, initiation, as well as psychoanalysis as a tool of text interpretation.

Carmen Santamaría García (born 1967), European PhD in Linguistics from Complutense University, Madrid (2005). She has been combining teaching and research as part of the Philosophy and Letters Faculty, University of Alcala, for 25 years now and is tenured professor in English Language and Applied Linguistics since 1997. During these years she has been course designer and teacher of more than 30 courses at degree and postgraduate levels in more than 10 programmes in Education, Audiovisual communication, English Language and Translation Studies at University of Alcala. Her research interests and teaching fields spread along Applied Linguistics, Communication and Education (intercultural pragmatics, discourse and conversation analysis, translation and methodology of the English Language, motivation in education). These are also the areas dealt with in her publications, together with corpus linguistics and computer - mediated communication, amounting to more than forty articles published in international academic journals and books.

Fiona Shelton, Doctoral Candidate, MAEd, BEd, FHEA, MCCT. Current doctoral research focuses on memories of primary school from 1944 – 2009. Master of Arts in Education focusing on the role of the stakeholder in curriculum design. Fiona has 25 years of experience in the education sector in schools and Higher Education, Fiona is currently Dean of Students and Head of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.

Somewhere over the rainbow: Discussions on homosexuality in education across Europe stellt einen informativen Überblicksband dar. Er macht deutlich, welche Bedeutung europäische Zusammenarbeit für Forschungsprojekte und für Sexuelle Bildung haben kann - und er lädt dazu ein, ausgehend von den landesspezifischen Einzelbeiträgen, weiterzulesen und sich für das jeweilige Land ausführlich kundig zu machen. – Heinz-Jürgen Voß auf socialnet