Nina Carolin Bieling
Nina Carolin Bieling started working as a research assistant at the Professorship of Higher Education in July 2023 and is conducting her doctoral thesis at the Department of Business and Economics at TU Dortmund University on the topic “Institutional expectations and academic identities in Germany”.
Further information on Nina Carolin Bieling
Nina Carolin Bieling studied economics at TU Dortmund University. Her study focus was on entrepreneurship, as well as innovation and technology management. Simultaneously, she worked as a graduate assistant at the Professorship of Macroeconomics, at the Institute of Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency and Energy Economics, and at the Professorship of Higher Education. After the completion of her studies, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Wuppertal.
- Academic Entrepreneurship
- Diversity Management
- Innovation Management
Bieling, N. (2025). Evolution of third-party funding and institutional expectations in German HEIs. Presentation at the 14th EUREDOCS Conference 2025, Paris, France, December 16.
Bieling, N., Pekşen, S., & Leišytė, L. (2025). Fostering students’ diversity competence through problem-based learning and hackathons. Presentation at the IIE’s 2nd International Conference on Teaching and Learning, Cape Town, South Africa, November 28.
Bieling, N., & Leišytė, L. (2025). The Role of Governance in TechnologieZentrumDortmund’s (TZDO) Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Poster presentation at the RENT 2025 Conference, Enschede, The Netherlands, November 20.
Pekşen, S., Bieling, N., & Leišytė, L. (2025). Fostering students’ diversity competence through problem-based learning and hackathons. Poster presentation at the 20th annual conference of the German Society for Higher Education Research (GfHf), Heilbronn, Germany, September 10.
Bieling, N., Rose, A.-L., Pekşen, S., & Leišytė, L. (2024). The influence of (inter-)disciplinary research orientation towards academic identities in European higher education systems. Paper presentation at the SRHE International Conference 2024 (Society for Research into Higher Education), Nottingham, United Kingdom, December 6.
Leišytė, L., Rose, A.-L., Pekşen, S., & Bieling, N. (2024). External engagement of academics: Exploring gender patterns in the Baltic Sea region. Presentation at the APIKS Conference ‘Academy after knowledge society and the future of academic profession’, Espoo, Finland, October 25.



