Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

Education

• 2012-2017: Master’s in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology at the Universities of Basel and Vienna
• 2007-2010: Bachelor’s studies in Social Work at the FHNW School of Social Work

Career milestones

• 2013-2018: Socio-educational support and advice for young people in a voluntary context
• 2013-2014: Fundraising for a neighbourhood centre
• 2011/2012: Management of a socio-educational programme advising unemployed young people
• 2010-2012/2013: Advisory role in youth and family counselling, including child protection mandates and child welfare matters
• 2008-2009/2010: Church social work; advice on finances and debts, social counselling, community work

Main focus

• Security discourse in social work
• Qualitative social research / ethnographic field research
• (Audio-)visual anthropology
• Anthropology of the senses
• Urban anthropology / reading the urban
• Theory of mind
• Systemic and solution-oriented counselling, lifeworld-oriented social work