Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience
- Doctoral studies, University of Basel, Institute of Sociology (Doctorate Dr. phil.)
- Studied sociology, cultural studies and media studies, University of Basel (licentiate lic. phil.)
- Studied social work, School of Social Work HSA Bern and HFS beider Basel, Department of Social Work (Dipl. Social Work FH)
Main focus
- Government administration and ethnic differences
- Social planning and governance
- Social work and the police
- Migration and integration policy
- Counterspace practice and new social movements
- Theory and concepts of social work as a profession
- Theory and practice of discourse analysis
Further information
Memberships, review & commission activities
- Since 2018: Expert for the Swiss National Science Foundation
- Since 2011: Board of Trustees of the C. & R. Koechlin-Vischer Foundation Basel
- 2009 - 2013: Member of the Board of the Swiss Association for Social Policy (SSPA)
- 2003 - 2016: Board of Trustees of the charitable foundation Gemeinnützige Stiftung Wohnhilfe Basel
- 2001 - 2017: Reviewer and project manager, Singenberg Foundation Basel