Dr. Francesca Ialuna
- Research Scientist at the Department of Education and Integration
- Research assistant in the project MELT
Profile
Francesca Ialuna's current research focuses on:
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Ethnic Identity und Socialisation
- Intersectional discrimination in the context of education
- Educational and mental development of immigrant and refugee children
Academic Career
- since 09/2026: Research assistant and postdoc at the Department of Empirical Teaching-Learning Research under Conditions of Migration-Related Heterogeneity at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) and at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin
- since 04/2024: Research assistant and postdoc at the Intercultural Psychology Group - Migration and Integration, University of Duisburg-Essen
- 02/2025 - 04/2025: Guest researcher at CIS-ISCTE - Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention, University Institute of Lisbon
- 05/2020 - 03/2024: Research assistant and PhD student at the Intercultural Psychology Group - Migration and Integration, University of Duisburg-Essen
- 2018 - 04/2020: Research assistant at the Child and Family Research Group, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University of Bochum
- 2015 - 2017: M.Sc. in Psychology at the University of Padua - specializing in "Community Psychology"
- 2011 - 2015: B.Sc. in Psychology at the University of Triest
Selected Publications
- Ialuna, F., Civitillo, S., Schachner, M. K., & Jugert, P. (2025). Culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and cultural diversity climate are positively associated with the academic and psychological adjustment of immigrant and nonimmigrant students. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 31(4), 683–698. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000697
- Ialuna, F., Civitillo, S., McElvany, N., Leyendecker, B., & Jugert, P. (2024). Resilience in multicultural classrooms: School relationships can protect the school adjustment of immigrant, refugee and non-immigrant children. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 94(4), 1271-1293. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12713
- Ialuna, F., Civitillo, S., & Jugert, P, (2024). Culturally Responsive Teaching, Teacher-Student Relationship and School Belongingness: A Multi-Informant Study in Ethnically Diverse Classrooms. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100839
- Civitillo, S., Ialuna, F., Lieck, D., & Jugert, P. (2022). Do infrahumanization or affective prejudice drive teacher discrimination against Romani students? A conceptual replication of Bruneau et al. (2020) in Germany. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000609
A full list of publications is available here.
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