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Short Biography
Julia Gorges studied Business Informatics at the Mannheim University of Cooperative Education from 1998 to 2001 and Educational Science at the University of Cologne from 2003 to 2007. She earned her Ph.D. from 2008 to 2012 in the Educational Psychology research group at Bielefeld University on the topic “Out of sight, out of mind? An Expectancy-Value-Theoretical Analysis of Adult Learners’ Motivation” and subsequently worked as a postdoc at Bielefeld University, including on the BiProfessional project of the Quality Initiative for Teacher Education. In October 2019, Prof. Dr. Gorges accepted an appointment to a W2 professorship in Educational Science with a focus on Empirical Educational Research at Philipps University of Marburg. Since March 2025, she has been a W3 professor of research methods at the University of Cologne. Prof. Dr. Gorges has secured and led various externally funded projects, including the BMBF project “Bielefeld Continuing Education Concept for Cooperation in Inclusive Schools” (BiFoKi, 2018–2021) and the ongoing DFG project “Motivated Participation in Educational Programs at Adult Education Centers” (MoveIn@VHS, 2023–2026). Her research focuses on the conditions for success in designing an inclusive education system, on learning and achievement motivation across the life course, and on goal conflicts in educational contexts.
Research Focus
- Conditions for the success of school inclusion
- Teachers’ motivation to learn
- Professional handling of conflicting goals in educational contexts
- The development of subject-specific motivation over the course of a lifetime
- Educational participation, social inequality, and lifelong learning
- Research methodology of large-scale assessments
- Experimental study designs in educational research
Research Projects
- “MoVe-In@VHS” (Motivated at Adult Education Centers – Utilization of Educational Programs at German Adult Education Centers)
- ValCom3 (Value and Competence Beliefs in Adulthood)
- ConGo@Schools (Conflicting Goals at Schools) – Inherent Goal Conflicts in Educational Contexts
- BiFoKi – Bielefeld Training Concept for Cooperation in Inclusive Schools
- The Actual Genesis of Expectations of Success and Subjective Task Value in the Context of Unfamiliar Learning Content – ValCom2 (Value and Competence Beliefs in Adulthood)
- Value and Competence Beliefs in Adulthood (ValCom) – An investigation into the development of competence and value beliefs in adulthood
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5865-1266