Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

• Studied sociology, psychology and educational sciences at the University of Tübingen
• PhD in Social Pedagogy, Institute of Education, University of Tübingen with Hans Thiersch and Ludwig Liegle
• Senior assistant to the Chair of Social Work, University of Fribourg
• Head of R & D, Social Affairs, FH Solothurn, member of the Management Board
• Head of the Institute for the Study and Development of Social Work as a Profession, FHNW School of Social Work, member of the Management Board
• Professor for Social Work at the Institute for Social Work and Health at the FHNW School of Social Work
  

Main focus

• Theories of social work, in particular system theories
• Social work as a profession and action science
• Social work and psychiatry
• Social work in health care
• Research-based social work
• Theory-practice interfaces
• Case-based reasoning
• Diagnostics in social work