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      Prof. Dr. Olivier Steiner

      Olivier Steiner

      Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

      • Since 2013: Professorship “Life situations and lifestyles of recipients of child and youth welfare” at the FHNW School of Social Work
      • 2011: PhD in Sociology at the University of Basel
      • 2001 – 2013: Research assistant at the FHNW School of Social Work
      • 1997 – 2000: Socio-pedagogical employee in Opalinus, employment centre and children’s home in Gelterkinden
      • 1997: Socio-pedagogical employee in Leiern, school and children’s home in Gelterkinden
      • 1996: Internships at the Bürgerliches Waisenhaus (orphanage), Basel-Stadt

      Main focus

      Research, development and services

      • Children and adolescents: Life situations and lifestyles of children and adolescents in modern societies
      • Media education: media competence, media education and media pedagogy
      • Digital media and social work: Mediatisation and technologisation of social work
      • Violence: social structures of violence, youth violence, right-wing extremism, violence prevention
      • Qualitative and quantitative social research and evaluation
      • Social theories, sociological theories, socialisation theories

      Main focus in teaching

      • Digital media and social work
      • Structures of violence and youth violence
      • Life situations and lifestyles of children and adolescents
      • Social theory, critical theory

      Further information

      Memberships, review & commission activities
      • Member of Network Media Literacy Switzerland, Federal Social Insurance Office
      • Member of the feel-ok.ch expert group, ETH Zurich
      • Patronage committee of the Association “digital”
      • Expert for Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
      • Expert for British Journal of Social Work, European Journal of Social Work, Journal of Technology in Human Services

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    • Prof. Dr. Olivier Steiner

      Prof. Dr. Olivier Steiner

      Lecturer, Institute for Studies in Children and Youth Services, FHNW School of Social Work

      Telephone

      +41 61 228 59 46

      E-mail

      olivier.steiner@fhnw.ch

      Address

      Hofackerstrasse 30 4132 Muttenz

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