Milena Feldmann completed a master’s degree in philosophy of education at the University of Tübingen in Germany. She has always been interested in the intersections between educational science and ageing studies. Her research interests encompass social practices of un/doing age with a particular focus on bodies and artefacts, educational theories from a global perspective, and questions of social inequality. During her studies she has spent a semester in Santiago/Chile and in Uppsala/Sweden and completed an internship at the German Commission for UNESCO.

Since November 2022, she has been a PhD candidate in the DFG Emmy Noether Group “Linking Ages – the material-discursive practices of un/doing age across the life course.”

In her PhD project, Milena Feldmann draws on a ‘Linking Ages’ perspective to examine material-discursive practices of un/doing age in educational settings. She is particularly interested in the question of how people of younger and older ages are protected from violence. Using a multi-method research design, she investigates how protection concepts are coded in an age-specific way and how age, as a category of social difference, is situationally made relevant or irrelevant in educational institutions.

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Publications (selection):

Feldmann, M., Höppner, G. & Wanka, A. (2026, forthcoming): Gendered Ageism and Ageist Sexism. In International Journal for Equity in Health. Special Issue: Gendered Ageism in Healthcare: A Critical Analysis of Structural Inequities. [English]

Feldmann, M. (2026, forthcoming): Karen Barad’s Concept of Apparatus in Educational Science. Practices of Boundary-Drawing in Knowledge Production and Age Segregation. In: M. Donner/M. Zahn et al. (ed): New materialisms in educational science. Weinheim/Basel: Beltz Juventa [German].

Wanka, A., Wazinski, K., Feldmann, M. & Zahra, T. (2026, forthcoming): Linking Ages. Age-Based Practices across Life Course Transitions Contrasting, Relating and Perspectivizing Practices of Un/Doing Transitions Across the Life Course. In R. Settersten, A. Walter; B. Stauber (ed.): [Handbook Transition Research. [English]

Feldmann, M. (2026): Protection practices in day centres for older adults. Social science perspectives.  Zeitschrift für Gerontololgie und Geriatrie, 59: 19–25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-025-02527-0. [German]

Feldmann, M., Wazinski, K. & Wanka, A. (2025): Intersectional perspectives on ageing and gender in social work. Soz Passagen. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12592-025-00545-8 [German]

Feldmann, M., Rieger-Ladich, M., Voß, C. & Wortmann, K. (2022) (ed.): Key terms in educational science. Educational vocabulary in motion. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. [German]