Andresen, Sabine, Prof. Dr.
General Education Unit, Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University
Research on Childhood and Adolescence, Gender Research

Bos, Wilfried, Prof. Dr.
Institute for School Development Research, Department of Education and Sociology, Technische Universität Dortmund
Educational Research and Quality Assurance; Empirical Research Methods

Diehm, Isabell, Prof. Dr.
Intercultural Education and Cultural Work Unit, Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University
Education and Migration, (Early) Childhood Education, Education and Gender

Flößer, Gaby, Prof. Dr. 
Institute for Social Work, Adult Education, and Early Childhood Education, Department of Education and Sociology, Technische Universität Dortmund
Organizational Studies in Social Work, theories of the welfare state and welfare distribution, quality of Social Services

Fries, Stefan, Prof. Dr.
Psychology of Education Unit, Faculty of Psychology an Sports Science, Bielefeld University
Personal value orientations, Motivation to learn, Self-Regulation,cognitive and motivational training

Fried, Lilian, Prof. Dr.
Institute for Social Work, Adult Education, and Early Childhood Education, Department of Education and Sociology, Technische Universität Dortmund
Language Education, Educational Diagnosis and Prevention, Early Childhood Education

Hitzler, Ronald, Prof. Dr.
Institute for Sociology (ISO), Department of Education and Sociology, Technische Universität Dortmund
Modernization as an Action Problem, Empirical Research Methods

Holtappels, Heinz Günter, Prof. Dr.
Institute for School Development Research (IFS), Department of Education and Sociology, Technische Universität Dortmund
Research on School Development; Educational Management and Evaluation

Katz-Bernstein, Nitza, Prof. Dr.
Faculty of Rehabilitation Studies, Technische Universität Dortmund; also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Communication Disorders, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Rehabilitation, Special Education and Therapy of Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders

Keuffer, Josef, Prof. Dr.
Didactic and Curricular Development Unit, Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University
School Research, Academic Head of the Oberstufenkolleg

McElvany, Nele, Prof. Dr.
Institute for School Development Research, Department of Education and Sociology, Technische Universität Dortmund

Nold, Günter, Prof. Dr.
Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Technische Universität Dortmund; Adjunct Professor at the Department of English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Research, Language Assessment and Testing, EFL Competence Models

Otto, Hans-Uwe, Prof. Dr., Dr. h.c. mult.
Institute for Educational Science and Social Profession, Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University, Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Contracted Research Professor till 2011, Bielefeld University
Social Profession, Social Service Research, Local Social Policy Research

Quasthoff, Uta, Prof. Dr.
Department of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Technische Universität Dortmund
Research on Language Acquisition and First-Language Teaching, Verbal Interaction and Discourse Analysis

Rauschenbach, Thomas, Prof. Dr.
Department of Education and Sociology, Technische Universität Dortmund, also Research Group of the German Youth Institute/ Technische Universität Dortmund
Education in Childhood and Adolescence, Child and Youth Welfare Statistics, Social Professions (Training and Job Market)

Riemer, Claudia, Prof. Dr.
Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, Bielefeld University
German as a Second and Foreign Language, Applied Linguistics

Sander, Uwe, Prof. Dr. 
Media Education, Research Methods and Youth Research Unit, Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University
Media Education, Youth Research

Tillmann, Klaus-Jürgen, Prof. Dr. 
Didactic and Curricular Development Unit, Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University
Empirical Research on Socialization and Schooling, Academic Head of the Laborschule

Treumann, Klaus Peter, Prof. Dr. 
Media Education, Research Methods, and Youth Research Unit, Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University
Empirical Research Methods, Media and Youth Research

Vogel, Peter, Prof. Dr.
Institute for General Educational Science and Vocational Education, Department of Educational Science and Sociology, Technische Universität Dortmund
Methodology and Theory Construction in Educational Science

Wild, Elke, Prof. Dr.
Educational Psychology Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University
Educational Psychology, Parental School Involvement, Family Psychology, Motivational Psychology, Instructional Research, Evaluation

Ziegler, Holger, Prof. Dr.
Youth Welfare, Well-Being, Social Problems, Social Control, Evidence-Based Social Work Practice
Social education and social work, Faculty of Education, University of Bielefeld