Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience
- Since 2008: Professorship at the Institute for Studies in Children and Youth Services at the School of Social Work FHNW
- Doctoral Degree in Philosophy, Diploma in Social Pedagogy
Main focus
- Social work in schools (school social work and all-day schools)
- Inclusion and multi-professionality in the school context
- Theories, concepts and practices in child and youth welfare
- Qualitative social research
- Children's rights
Further information
Memberships, review & commission activities
- President of the Swiss Society for Social Work SGSA/SSTS
- Editorial Board member - International Journal of School Social Work
- Founding member of the European Social Work Research Association ESWRA
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zeitpolitik DGfZP
- Research Network «Quality of Life and Visual Impairment» (SZBlind, Switzerland)
- ICEVI: International Council for Education and Re/habilitation of People with Visual Impairment