SRH University
Professor

Prof. Dr. Rebecca Gulowski

Professor for Social Science

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About me

About me

Training

2009 - Completion of Master’s Degree (Magister Artium): Sociology, Political Science, Art History

2012 - Completion of Master’s Degree: Social Sciences Conflict Research

2019-2021 - Training as a Trauma-Centered Specialist Counselor (DeGPT), Systemic (Trauma) Therapist (DsGTB), and Anti-Violence and Skills Trainer (AKT)

2023 - Ph.D. (Doctorate) in Social Sciences

Career History

2012-2018 - Research Associate / Assistant Professor at the University of Augsburg

2018-2023 - Psychosocial Counselor and Specialist Counselor for Violent Women at the FrauenTherapieZentrum München (FTZ e.V.)

2018 - present - Senior Researcher / Academic Policy Advisor at the German Youth Institute Munich (DJI)

2023 - 2026 - Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies

2026 - present - Professor at SRH University

 

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I have contributed to these publications


Publication / Artistic Publication

  • Gulowski, Rebecca/ Doll, Daniel/ Dinger, Luise/ Kavemann, Barbara (2026)*: Digitale Räume, analoge Skripte. Zur Bedeutung von Sexualitäts- und Geschlechtervorstellungen bei männlichen Jugendlichen im Kontext sexueller Peergewalt. In: Sozial Extra. (hrsg. v. von Böhm, Maika/Flick, Sabine), 50. Jg., H. 2
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/ Dinger, Luise/ Holz, Magdalena/ Eberhardt, Bernd (2026): (Un-)Möglichkeiten des Eingreifens. Bystander:innen-bezogene Prävention bei sexualisierter Peer-Gewalt – Erkenntnisse und Evaluationsergebnisse aus dem Forschungsverbund ‚CHAT'. In: Kindesmisshandlung und-vernachlässigung. 28. Jg., H. 2, S. 198-209
  • Berth, Felix/Derr, Regine/Gulowski, Rebecca/Hank, Dominik/Kindler, Heinz/Kirchberg, Anne/Paulus, Mareike/Sohler, Pia (2025): Unrechtserfahrungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Rahmen von Unterbringungen durch das Jugendamt der Landeshauptstadt München (1945 bis 1990). In: Soziale Passagen.
  • Berth, Felix/Derr, Regine/Gulowski, Rebecca/Hank, Dominik/Kirchberg, Anne/Sohler, Pia/Paulus, Mareike (2025): Unrechtserfahrungen von Kindern und Jugendlichen im Rahmen von Unterbringungen durch das Jugendamt der Landeshauptstadt München (1945 bis 1990). München: DJI
  • Eppinger, Sabeth/Derr, Regine/Müller, Jasmin/Gulowski, Rebecca/Kindler, Heinz (2025): Schutz vor sexualisierter Gewalt. Anregungen für schulische Konzepte. In: Schule leiten. H. 41, S. 14-17
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2025): »Ich sag dir was« – »ich hör dir zu«. Peer Disclosure nach sexualisierter Peer-Gewalt. In: BiÖG (Hrsg.): Sexuelle Bildung und Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt. Reihe: FORUM Sexualaufklärung und Familienplanung. Band 1. Köln: Bundesinstitut für Öffentliche Gesundheit (BiÖG), S. 69-74 [online unter: https://doi.org/10.17623/BIOEG_SRH:forum_2025-1_praevsexugewalt]
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2025): Jugendliche gegen sexualisierte Gewalt wappnen. In: DJI Impulse. Kinder und Jugendliche wirksam schützen. Wie sich Gewalt und Vernachlässigung eindämmen lassen. Nr. 138, H. 1, S. 30-34
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2024): Friedensstadt Augsburg: eine sozialwissenschaftliche (Konflikt-)Analyse als Baustein einer sozialraumorientierten Weiterentwicklung des Friedensfests und der unterjährigen Friedensarbeit in der Stadt Augsburg. Abschlussbericht.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/ Holz, Magdalena (2024): Jugendliche gegen sexualisierte Gewalt unter Jugendlichen stark machen. Erprobung und Evaluierung des »CHAT«-Präventionsworkshops. In: Forum Sexualaufklärung und Familienplanung: Informationsdienst der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA). H. 1, S. 99-102
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Derr, Regine / Kindler, Heinz (2023). Peer-Disclosure. Ressourcen, Konflikte und Herausforderungen des Anvertrauens sexualisierter Gewalt unter Jugendlichen. Kinder- und Jugendschutz in Wissenschaft und Praxis (KJug), 68(4), S. 150-155.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2023)*: Typology of Female Offenders in Intimate Partnerships – a Feminist Approach, in: The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2023): (Un)Eindeutig mehrdeutige Gewalt. Über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen sozialwissenschaftlicher Konfliktforschung und ihrer Anwendungspraxis als Oszillieren zwischen hegemonialen Gewaltordnungen und Forscher:innenselbst. Augsburg. Hochschulschrift.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2022)*. Sekundärtrauma in der qualitativen Forschung: Traumasensitivität in der Forschung zu sexualisierter Gewalt. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 23(1). doi.org/10.17169/fqs-23.1.3697
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/Zöhrer, Michaela (Hrsg.) (2022): Forschungen für Frieden. Perspektiven sozialwissenschaftlicher Konfliktforschung. NOMOS.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca, & Zöhrer, Michaela (2022). Wer Frieden (verstehen) will, muss auch Konflikte erforschen. Forschungen für Frieden, In: Gulowski, Rebecca/Zöhrer, Michaela (Hrsg.) (2022): Forschungen für Frieden. Perspektiven sozialwissenschaftlicher Konfliktforschung. NOMOS, S. 14-22.
  • Derr, Regine/ Gulowski, Rebecca/ Kindler, Heinz/ Krüger, Christina/ Muther, Alisa (2022): „HILF MIR, ZU HELFEN“ – EIN WERKBUCH FÜR DIE PRAXIS. Peers als Adressat:innen von Disclosure und Brücken ins Hilfesystem. DOI 10.36189/DJI202213
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/ Oppelt, Martin (2021): Sexualisierte Gewalt in der Erfahrung Jugendlicher. Expertise zum Stand der Wissenschaft. Im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2021): Trauma and Narratives. Preface, in: Pauls, Christina: Restoring a Past. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/Krüger, Christina (2020): Jugendliche reden über sexualisierte Gewalterfahrungen vor allem mit ihren Peers. Erste Erkenntnis aus dem BMBF Projekt "Peers als Adressaten von Disclosure und Brücken ins Hilfesystem", in: Peer-Ansätze - Forum Sexualaufklärung, Heft 1-2020, S. 30-34.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2020): Partnerschaftsgewalt durch Frauen, in: Büttner, Melanie (Hrsg.): Handbuch Häusliche Gewalt. Stuttgart: Schattauer Verlag, S. 68-80.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/Schünemann-Homburg, Birgit (2020): Beratung für Frauen, die Partnerschaftsgewalt ausüben, in: Büttner, Melanie (Hrsg.): Handbuch Häusliche Gewalt. Stuttgart: Schattauer Verlag, S. 272-282.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2020): Aporien ziviler Konfliktbearbeitung. Über Wirkungsanalysen, Indikatoren und Verfahren als friedensethische Prüfsteine und die Frage nach Gerechtigkeit, in: Werkner, Ines-Jaqueline/Stobbe, Heinz Günther (Hrsg.): Friedensethische Prüfsteine ziviler Konfliktbearbeitung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, S. 85-108.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): Zwischen Entfremdung und Empowerment: Zur Thematisierung sexualisierter Gewalt in der Hochschullehre, in: Feministische Perspektiven auf Militärorganisation und Sicherheitspolitik in Zeiten transnationaler Kriegsführung, FEMINA POLITICA, Heft 2/2019.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/Oppelt Martin (2019): Das neue Projekt der Kritik: Im Interview mit Achille Mbembe, in: PERIPHERIE, Nr. 1, Heft 153.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): Fremde wie wir. Rezension zu "Postmigrantische Perspektiven. Ordnungssysteme, Repräsentationen, Kritik" von Naika Foroutan, Juliane Karakayali und Riem Spielhaus (Hg.), in: Soziopolis: https://www.soziopolis.de/profil/rebecca-gulowski/
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/Oppelt Martin (2018): Flucht und Demokratie. Ein Perspektivenwechsel, in: dies. (Hrsg.): Zugehörigkeit. Neuvermessungen des Politischen. Themenheft des Mittelweg 36, Heft 3/2018
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/Oppelt Martin (2018): Körper in Bewegung. Ein Interview mit Achille Mbembe, in: dies. (Hrsg.): Zugehörigkeit. Neuvermessungen des Politischen. Themenheft des Mittelweg 36, Heft 3/2018.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/Oppelt Martin (Hrsg.) (2018): Zugehörigkeit. Neuvermessungen des Politischen. Themenheft des Mittelweg 36, Heft 3/2018. Besprochen in: DIE ZEIT 30/
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2018): On the Flesh of Violence. The (Phenomenological) Dilemma in Researching on Violence and Its Transrational Transformation, in: Josefina Echavarría Alvarez /Daniela Ingruber/Norbert Koppensteiner (Hrsg.): ‘Transrational Resonances: Echoes to the Many Peaces. Houndsmill, Palgrave Macmillan, 167-191.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2018): The Absurdity of Violence and Peacework. A Guest Comment, in: Many Peaces Magazin, Heft 8, S. 6.
  • Gulowski Rebecca/Weller, Christoph (2017)*: Zivile Konfliktbearbeitung. Kritik, Konzept und theoretische Fundierung, in: Peripherie Nr. 148, 37. Jg. 2017, S. 386-411.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2017): Negotiating Narratives: R2P and the Conundrum of the Monopoly of Legitimized Use of Force, in: Abu Bakarr Bah (Hrsg.): International Security and Peacebuilding. Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 26-48.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca/Weller, Christoph (2014): Gewalt ist keine Aggression, in: Gerald Hartung und Matthias Herrgen (Hrsg.): Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie, Jahrbuch 2/2014: Gewalt und Aggression, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 85-91.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2012): Buchrezension zu Lünse, Dieter/Nöllenburg, Katty/Kowalczyk, Jörg/Wanke, Florian (2011): Zivilcourage - können alle! Ein Trainingshandbuch für Schule und Jugendarbeit, Verlag an der Ruhr, Mühlheim an der Ruhr, in: Soziale Verteidigung. Konflikte gewaltfrei austragen - Militär und Rüstung abschaffen. Rundbrief Nr. 1/2012 des Bundes für Soziale Verteidigung, S. 7.


Exhibitions / Trade Show Participation / Plenary Presentations

Workshops

2026

  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Pauls, Christina (Feb 1, 2026): "Prevention. Intervention in sexualized violence." Workshop. BDKJ (Federation of German Catholic Youth), Augsburg.

2025

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Dec 27, 2025): "Understanding, addressing, and empowering male adolescents as bystanders of sexualized peer violence. Insights into challenges, resources, and prevention strategies." Workshop. Supporting event: Specialist Forum 2025: "Possibilities for the prevention of partner violence as early as childhood and adolescence." Specialist Forum Against Domestic Violence in the Herford District. Herford.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Holz, Magdalena (Nov 25, 2025): "Sexualized violence among adolescents in prevention and sexual education." Workshop. Augsburg Peace Transfer Center / Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. Augsburg.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Marquardt, Lynn (Oct 15, 2025): "Ava at the festival – Theater Forum. Logics of protection, barriers, and peer pressure dynamics." Workshop. Supporting event: Symposium: "Stand by me – Sexualized violence among adolescents: How to address barriers and become a visible contact person." Information and Cooperation Center Against Domestic and Sexual Violence in the Hohenlohe District. Schwäbisch Hall.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Marquardt, Lynn (Oct 15, 2025): "How can I become visible as a contact person for sexualized peer violence? The Johannes case." Workshop. Supporting event: Symposium: "Stand by me – Sexualized violence among adolescents: How to address barriers and become a visible contact person." Information and Cooperation Center Against Domestic and Sexual Violence in the Hohenlohe District. Schwäbisch Hall.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Sept 30, 2025): "Sexualized peer violence. Empowering youth against sexual violence by peers." Workshop. Supporting event: Symposium: "Complex challenges in dealing with children and adolescents who commit sexual offenses." German Youth Institute (DJI). Weimar. (Check, Reflect, Decide, Act: Empowering youth against sexualized violence among peers).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Sept 17, 2025): "Understanding dynamics – Empowering bystanders: Preventive action in cases of sexualized peer violence." Workshop. Supporting event: Protestant Youth Symposium: "Peer violence: Dealing with sexualized violence among children and adolescents." Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover. Hanover.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Marquardt, Lynn (July 15, 2025): "Stand by me. Empowering youth against sexualized violence among peers." Workshop. Bavarian Youth Council (BJR). Gauting.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Horstmann, Nele (May 22, 2025): "Sexualized peer violence. Bystander-oriented prevention in professional training." Workshop. Supporting event: 7th Specialist Forum on Professional Training. Federal Institute for Public Health. Cologne.

2024

  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Kavemann, Barbara / Krebs, Jessica / Amann, Stefanie (Sept 19, 2024): "Designing protection against sexualized peer violence in a participatory and bystander-oriented way." Workshop. Supporting event: BMBF Transfer Conference: "Paths into practice: Innovative concepts for protection against sexualized violence in work with children and adolescents." Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Berlin.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Dinger, Luise / Marquardt, Lynn (May 17, 2024): "Empowering youth against sexual violence among adolescents." Workshop. Supporting event: 6th Annual Conference: "Areas of tension and successful practice in working with children and adolescents who commit sexual offenses." Federal Association of Child Protection Centers. Munich.
  • Dinger, Luise / Gulowski, Rebecca / Marquardt, Lynn (2024): "Empowering youth against sexual violence among adolescents." Workshop. 6th Annual Conference of the German Child Protection Centers: "Areas of tension and successful practice in working with children and adolescents who commit sexual offenses." (May 17, 2024).

2023

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Oct 8, 2023): "Help me help! Peers as a bridge to the support system." Workshop. Supporting event: Symposium marking the 20th anniversary of Prätect: "Perspectives for Prevention." Bavarian Youth Council (BJR). Gauting.

2019

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): "Working with perpetrators – Not easy, but necessary." Workshop. Specialist Conference: "Tackling the Istanbul Convention! Implementing the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence" in Munich (Sept 24, 2019).

Presentations (Vorträge)

2026

  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Holz, Magdalena (Apr 14, 2026): "Shaping prevention: Sexualized violence in adolescence." Presentation. German Congress on Crime Prevention (Deutscher Präventionstag). Hanover.

2025

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Nov 29, 2025): "Early onset of intimate partner violence and the role of bystanders." Presentation. Event on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: "Domestic Violence: Four Walls, Many Barriers." Know Your Rights Initiative e.V.. Munich.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Nov 27, 2025): "'I thought it was just part of it' – Between boundary violations, sexuality, and gender discourses. Early prevention of intimate partner violence in adolescence." Presentation. Specialist Forum 2025: "Possibilities for the prevention of partner violence as early as childhood and adolescence." Specialist Forum Against Domestic Violence in the Herford District. Herford.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Nov 19, 2025): "Sexualized peer violence. Insights and materials from bystander-oriented research and prevention." Presentation. Educational program for pedagogical professionals. AMYNA e.V.. Online.
  • Berth, Felix / Derr, Regine / Gulowski, Rebecca / Hank, Dominik / Kirchberg, Anne / Paulus, Mareike (Oct 20, 2025): "Munich Youth Welfare Office: The Quest for Perpetrator Networks." Presentation. Workshop: "Perpetrator Networks." SOCLES International Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Heidelberg.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Oct 15, 2025): "Sexualized violence among adolescents – Current state of research. Prevalence and description of phenomena, life-world-oriented prevention concepts." Presentation. Symposium: "Stand by me – Sexualized violence among adolescents: How to address barriers and become a visible contact person." Information and Cooperation Center Against Domestic and Sexual Violence in the Hohenlohe District. Schwäbisch Hall.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Template date Sept 30, 2025): "'Sexual abnormalities – Is it already an assault?' Classification of sexualized violence in childhood and adolescence." Presentation. Symposium: "Complex challenges in dealing with children and adolescents who commit sexual offenses." Thuringian Ministry for Social Affairs, Health, Labor and Family / Thuringian State Association for Child and Youth Protection. Weimar.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Sept 17, 2025): "Sexualized peer violence and the role of third parties. Dynamics, risks, and prevention in adolescence." Presentation. Protestant Youth Symposium: "Peer violence: Dealing with sexualized violence among children and adolescents." Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover. Hanover.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Sept 11, 2025): "Barriers and Potentials of Bystander Intervention in Cases of Sexualized Peer Violence." Presentation. EuSARF 2025: "Transformation, Transition and Innovation in Child Welfare." Symposium: "Young People's Perspectives on Subjective Well-being in Residential Care." European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents (EuSARF) / University of Zagreb. Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Sept 4, 2025): "Dynamics of sexualized violence among adolescents. An example of research transfer into open digital teaching (Virtual University of Bavaria)." Presentation. Research Network on Sexualized Violence: "Quo vadis? Challenges and perspectives for research on sexualized violence and sexual education." Federal Institute for Public Health. Cologne.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (May 14, 2025): "Check, Reflect, Act! Empowering youth against sexualized peer violence (CHAT)." Presentation and discussion. 18th German Child and Youth Welfare Congress 2025 (DJHT): "Because everything is at stake: Realizing democracy through participation!" Child and Youth Welfare Association (AGJ). Leipzig.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Mar 28, 2025): "More than working with perpetrators? Bystander-oriented prevention of sexualized peer violence among adolescents." Presentation. Symposium: "Is working with perpetrators protecting victims?" Federal Association for "Work with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults displaying Sexually Boundary-Violating Behavior" e.V. (BAG-TA). Hanover.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Mar 8, 2025): "'I’ll tell you something' – 'I’m listening to you'. When friends confide in each other after sexualized violence." Presentation. Symposium: "Prevention by the Protestant Youth in Saxony." Protestant Youth in Saxony. Online.

2024

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Aug 1, 2024): "Women between victimhood and aggression. Mono- and bidirectional violence in intimate partnerships by female perpetrators." Presentation. ISRA World Meeting 2024, Symposium 27. International Society for the Study of Aggression (ISRA). Munich.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Dinger, Luise (July 31, 2024): "Self-endangerment. Conceptualizing dilemmas and challenges of young bystanders in cases of sexualized violence." Presentation. ISRA World Meeting 2024, Symposium 17. International Society for the Study of Aggression (ISRA). Munich.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Dinger, Luise (July 31, 2024): "What prevents young bystanders from intervening effectively in cases of sexualized peer violence?" Presentation. ISRA World Meeting 2024, Symposium 17. International Society for the Study of Aggression (ISRA). Munich.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (July 4, 2024): "Child Protection, Participatory Research and Ethics. Inquiring Sexual Violence." Presentation. Workshop: "Participatory approaches in research ethics." Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Munich.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2024): "Dynamics, dilemmas, disclosure. Perspectives and needs of young bystanders in cases of sexualized peer violence." Summer Meeting of the National Council, Berlin (June 28, 2024).
  • Amann, Stefanie / Gulowski, Rebecca / Kavemann, Barbara / Krebs, Jessica / Marquardt, Lynn (Sept 19, 2024): "Designing protection against sexualized peer violence in a participatory and bystander-oriented way." BMBF Transfer Conference: "Paths into practice."
  • Dinger, Luise / Gulowski, Rebecca (2024): "A risk worth taking?! Self-endangerment of young bystanders in cases of sexualized violence." 16th Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS), University of Tampere, Finland (June 13, 2024).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2024): "Disclosure Processes Between Youth: Impacts for Prevention." 16th Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS), University of Tampere, Finland (June 13, 2024).
  • Dinger, Luise / Gulowski, Rebecca (2024): "Check, reflect, act! Challenges for effective bystander behavior in the event of sexualized violence among peers." 16th Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS), University of Tampere, Finland (June 12, 2024).
  • Dinger, Luise / Gulowski, Rebecca (2024): "CHAT – Results of the qualitative survey of adolescents and young adults." Family at Noon – Family Science Colloquium of the Family Department / DJI Munich (June 5, 2024).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Mar 11, 2024): "Check, Reflect, Decide, Act: Empowering youth against sexualized violence among peers." DGfPI (German Society for Prevention and Intervention in Child Abuse and Neglect), Working Group on Sexualized Violence (Luise Dinger/Rebecca Gulowski/Magdalena Holz).

2023

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2023): "'Help me to help' – Peers as targets of disclosure and bridges to the support system." Presentation at the Austrian Youth Research Conference: "Youth in Times of Crises", Innsbruck, Austria (June 24, 2023).

2022

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2022): "Client typology in counseling practice for work with female perpetrators." Presentation at the Specialist Day on Work with Female Perpetrators Nuremberg, organized by the Statewide Coordination Office Against Domestic and Sexualized Violence Bavaria (July 13, 2022).

2021

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2021): "Disclosure Processes Between Youth. Impacts for Prevention." Presentation. International Conference: "IPVI2021 Interpersonal Violence Interventions - Social and Cultural Perspectives." University of Jyväskylä. Jyväskylä, Finland (May 10, 2021).

2020

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2020): "Peer Disclosure: Problems, Potentials, Support Needs." Presentation at the conference: "Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders – Research on Violence Among Adolescents", Lower Saxony State Office for Youth Protection (Oct 8, 2020).

2019

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): "Institutionalization of gendered violence from an intersectional perspective." Presentation at the Gender Studies Conference On Violence, Helsinki, Finland (Oct 26, 2019).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): "The Unseen and Unwanted. Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partnership Violence." Presentation at the Gender Studies Conference On Violence, Helsinki, Finland (Oct 24, 2019).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): "On theories of hysterical women, seductive Lolitas, and insane external perpetrators. Sexualized violence as a contested field of research." Presentation for the Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, University of Ulm (Oct 28, 2019).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): "Perpetrators and Offenders." Panel Chair at the III. European Conference of Domestic Violence, Oslo, Norway (Sept 1–4, 2019).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): "The Female Self in the Context of Active Violence – violenTia: a Victim-Oriented Perpetrator Program." Presentation at the III. European Conference of Domestic Violence, Oslo, Norway (Sept 1–4, 2019).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): "Impact analyses of civil conflict resolution – Indicators and procedures as peace-ethical touchstones of civil conflict resolution." Presentation as part of the FEST consultation process: "Orientation knowledge on just peace", Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Heidelberg (July 15, 2019).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2019): "Breaking the Silence. Disclosure as Kaleidoscope of Society’s Order of Violence." Presentation at the workshop: "The Harms of Rape: Experience, Agency, and the Body. – A Workshop with Ann Cahill." Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Hamburg (Jan 23, 2019).

2018

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2018): "Dealing with sexualized violence and perpetration – Theories of violence perspectives on the relationship between society, prevention, and reappraisal." Presentation to the German Bishops' Conference in Cologne (Nov 22, 2018).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2018): "Making the invisible visible. The intersectional discrimination in law governing sexual offenses." Presentation for the panel: The Gendered Realities of Crime. The Intersection Between Female Offending and Victimization at the XIX World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada (July 14–21, 2018).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2018): "Doing Memory of violent experience. A performative approach." Distributed Paper for the panel: Doing Memory of Violence in Images and Biographical Narrations at the XIX World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada (July 14–21, 2018).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2018): "'Actually nothing had happened' – Embodied Violence Analysis as an approach to catch that 'something' between experience and social order." Presentation and working paper at the conference: "Violence, Experience and Order", Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg (Apr 18–20, 2018).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca / Gehringer, Natalie (2018): "Encounters with violence: Transgressions between violence and peace research." Presentation and working paper at the 50th Colloquium of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK), Berlin (Apr 12–14, 2018).

2017

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2017): "(In)tangible violence: Analysis of violence as an experience." Presentation and working paper at the conference: "Contested Issues in Sociological Violence Research", RWTH Aachen University (Nov 17–18, 2017).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2017): "Sexism in discourse – (In)tangible orders of sexualized violence." Presentation for the Gender Emancipation Network Initiative at the University of Augsburg (June 8, 2017).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2017): "Sex, Violence, and the Unspeakable Order – The Experiential Dimensions of Legislative Power." Presentation and working paper at the conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Stanford University - School of Law, Palo Alto, California (Mar 31–Apr 1, 2017).

2016

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2016): "Embodied Conflict Analysis. Researching Violence as Experiential Process." Presentation and working paper at the workshop: "Analyzing conflicts – how, what, why?" of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK), Augsburg (Oct 28–29, 2016).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2016): "Liberate your mind, by all means necessary." Presentation and working paper at the Adam Curle Symposium: "Peaceful Relations and the Transformation of the World", University of Bradford, England (Sept 5–6, 2016).

2014

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2014): "Negotiating Narratives in the Discourse of Legitimized Use of Military Force: The Conundrum of R2P." Presentation at the 18th World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan (July 13–19, 2014).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2014): "Conflicts of Depiction: Aesthetics of Violence in Graffiti Photographs." Presentation and working paper at the Conference on Arts, Peace and Conflict, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University, England (July 2–4, 2014).
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2014): "Negotiating Narratives in the Discourse of Legitimized Use of Military Force: The Triform Linkage of Action, Institution and Structure." Presentation at the 55th Annual Conference of ISA, Toronto, Canada (Mar 26–29, 2014).

2013

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2013): "Graffiti Traces from the Arab Uprising: Towards the Everyday Iconography of Contemporary Warfare." Presentation at the conference: "War in the Visual Arts", University College Cork, Ireland (Sept 12–14, 2013).

2012

  • Gulowski, Rebecca (2012): "Civil conflict resolution: Only a political term or a scientific concept for understanding peace?" Presentation at the Center Days: "The Constitution of Peace. Current Debates and Future Perspectives", Philipps-University Marburg (Oct 11–13, 2012).


Awards, Prizes, and Scholarships

  • 2026 Teaching Award from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Augsburg
  • 2025 Lecture and Travel Grant for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching from the Bavarian State Ministry and the University of Augsburg for EuSARF, Zagreb, Croatia (September 2025)
  • 2019 DAAD Travel Grant, European Conference on Domestic Violence, (09/2019), Oslo, Norway
  • 2015 Grant for “Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching” for a Teaching and Research Fellowship at the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria
  • 2013–2014 Recipient of the program to support early-career female researchers
  • 2010–2011 Recipient of a grant from the Augsburg Housing and Foundation Office


Other

  • 2025 Panel Discussions / Moderation (Current Selection)
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Oct 15, 2025): "How can I become visible as a contact person for sexualized peer violence?" Panel discussion. Symposium: "Stand by me – Sexualized violence among adolescents: How to address barriers and become a visible contact person." Information and Cooperation Center Against Domestic and Sexual Violence in the Hohenlohe District. Schwäbisch Hall.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Sept 30, 2025): "Complex challenges in dealing with children and adolescents who commit sexual offenses." Panel discussion. Symposium: "Complex challenges in dealing with children and adolescents who commit sexual offenses." Thuringian Ministry for Social Affairs, Health, Labor and Family / Thuringian State Association for Child and Youth Protection. Weimar.
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (July 14, 2025): Moderation. A conversation with Rolf Pohl: "Why we need to talk about masculinity." Supporting event: Augsburg Peace Festival – "Change of Perspective." City of Augsburg. Augsburg.
  • 2024
  • Gulowski, Rebecca (Nov 27, 2024): "Tomorrow is another day." Panel discussion. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women ("NO to Violence against Women"). AWO Women’s Shelter / Equal Opportunities Office of the City of Augsburg / Office for Municipal Prevention Augsburg. Augsburg.