Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

• Dipl. Social Work
• Master of Social Work from the University of Fribourg
• PhD at the University of Fribourg
• Since 2010: Head of the Institute for the Study and Development of Social Work as a Profession at the FHNW School of Social Work

Main focus

• Methods of impact research
• Methods of quantitative social research and evaluation research
• Evaluation of interventions and programmes
• Occupational social work
• Social policy and disability
• Research on social work profession