Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience
Education
- 2013-2018: PhD at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen on the significance of normality constructions in the transition from inpatient youth welfare from a biographical perspective in the context of social differences
- 2017: Mobility scholarship Doc.Mobility of the Swiss National Science Foundation
- 2000-2006: Studied educational sciences at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
- 2008-2010: Continuing education as trainer “Educational action in the immigration society” Paritätisches Jugendwerk Baden-Württemberg (youth work)
Career milestones
- Since 2010: Research assistant, Institute for Studies in Children and Youth Services, School of Social Work FHNW
- 2009-2010: Project Manager Project IKABA.de on intercultural opening, Neue Arbeit Zollern-Achalm e.V.
- 2007-2009: Education officer at the Kreisjugendring Esslingen
- 2006-2007: Project collaborator at the Kreisjugendring Esslingen: Management and implementation of participative pedagogical projects in art and media
Main focus
- Transitions into adulthood
- Care leavers and leaving care
- Gender, migration and diversity in child and youth services
- Queer theory and social work
- Reconstructive social research
- Biographical transition research
- Biography-oriented methods in child and youth welfare
Further information
Memberships, review & commission activities
- Member of the Network for Migration Education Critical of Racism, Baden-Württemberg