
Hanna Völkle
Senior Expert
Hanna Völkle is a Senior Expert specializing in strategic project development and partnerships. She has many years of experience in developing pilot projects, networking, and facilitation—both at the societal and organizational levels.
Her current focus is on projects such as "Democracy and Equality in the Workplace" and "Active Bystanding: Addressing Intersectional Discrimination and Sexualized Violence at Universities and Colleges." Through these, she bridges the gap between research, practice, and social impact.
As a doctoral candidate in social sciences and political economy, she researches the feminist economics of time, with a particular focus on working time and time policy. She is a certified diversity trainer and has been involved in various civil society and academic committees for many years, combining theory, practice, and networking expertise.
Prior to her current role at EAF Berlin, she was a research associate at the Harriet Taylor Mill Institute for Economics and Gender Studies at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, where she was responsible for digitalization, gender, and diversity, and taught courses on political economy and digital transformation.
Memberships
- Living and Working in Flexibility (LAIF) Research Network: https://www.boeckler.de/de/leben-und-arbeiten-in-flexibilitat-32620.htm
- Steering Committees for the DGB project "What Does a Woman Earn? More Money, Time, and Respect!": https://www.was-verdient-die-frau.de/
- "Network for Provision-Oriented Economics": https://www.vorsorgendeswirtschaften.de/
- "Care Macht Mehr": https://care-macht-mehr.com/
- "Just Times" Network
Selected Literature
- Völkle, Hanna; Jurczyk, Katrin (2026): The Option Time Model from a Feminist Perspective: Equal Time for All? In: Yollu-Tok, A., Bothfeld, S., Hohendanner, C., Schütt, P. (Eds.) (2026): Shaping Gender Equality: Possibilities and Limits of Labor Market and Social Policy. Weinheim: Campus. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/geschlechtergerecht_gestalten-18455.html
- Lott, Yvonne; Pfahl, Svenja; Deuflhard, Carolin; Scholz, Ricarda; Völkle, Hanna (2025): We Expect More: Time for Decisive Equality Policy! FES Impuls, Ed. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn. https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-p-b/22313.pdf.
- Lott, Yvonne; Mückenberger, Ulrich; Scholz, Ricarda; Völkle, Hanna (2025): Care-Sensitive and Gender-Equitable Working Hours. Now! WSI Commentary No. 6, https://www.wsi.de/fpdf/HBS-009096/p_wsi_kommentar_6_2025.pdf.
- Völkle, Hanna (2024): Cohesion and Participation: Time-Policy Strategies for Volunteering. Zeitpolitisches Magazin, (45), pp. 33–36. https://zeitpolitik.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ZPM45_1224.pdf
- Völkle, Hanna (2024): Caring Times: An Introduction to a Feminist-Ecological Understanding of Time. juridikum - Journal for Critique | Law | Society, pp. 395–403. https://www.juridikum.at/395-403/sorgende-zeiten
- Völkle, Hanna (2024): Unconscious Bias: Recognizing and Changing Unconscious Prejudices. In: Huch, S., Erlemann, M. (Eds.): Gender & Diversity Studies in STEM meets Science Education. Edition Fachdidaktiken. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43616-2_10
- Dengler, Corinna; Völkle, Hanna; Ware, Sarah (2024): Time and space for social-ecological transformation: care-full commoning in and beyond the ecofeminist city. Environmental Politics, pp. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.24119
- Yollu-Tok, Aysel; Völkle, Hanna (2024): Feminist Economic Policy. An Expert Report. Ed. German Women's Council. Berlin. https://www.frauenrat.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Exp-Feministische-Wirtschaftspolitik_WEB.pdf
- Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (2024): Part-time Leadership in Top Federal Authorities. Berlin. www.bmfsfj.de/resource/blob/241356/9a2a5f5a9bed25e7f9d5f6bf07895ace/handlungsleitfaden-data.pdf
- Völkle, Hanna (2024): Political Economy of Time. On the Relevance of Time Policy in the Context of Social-Ecological Transformation. FES impuls, Ed. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn. https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-p-b/21140.pdf
- Dengler, Corinna; Dornis, Nora; Heck, Lukas; Völkle, Hanna (2024): Climate-friendly and health-promoting aspects of time affluence, ed. Gesundheit Österreich, Vienna. https://jasmin.goeg.at/id/eprint/3423/1/GOEGPolicyBrief-Zeitwohlstand_bf.pdf
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