Dr. Dorothee Leesing is a researcher who specializes in media representation and education. She has published on digital media, gaming, and gamified learning, belonging in mediated spacemaking and physical spaces. Actively engaged in teaching, educational technologies and digital humanities, Dorothee Leesing is a recent fellow of the Pop Culture Cluster 2025/2026 as an Academic fellow, as well as a fellow of the 2026 UDL cohort. Her interdisciplinary expertise promotes critical inquiry and inclusive approaches to media and education in an increasingly globalized, algorithmic and AI-mediated world.

She is an Educational Technology Manager at the Faculty of Medicine, as well as a Sessional Lecturer for the Master of Educational Technologies and GRSJ on courses focused on Gaming and Society. Most recently, she has been developing materials for Indigenous Data Sovereignty and ethical questions of belonging in the context of Artificial Intelligence.