Main focus
- Age (ethics, health, religious and cultural orientation, social work of ageing)
- Biographical work (theories and methods of biographical work and narration; narrative cafés, narrative methods of social work)
- Migration (age, mental health and migration)
- Dying, death and grief (support and counselling)
Further information
Memberships, review & commission activities
- Co-founder of the network Erzählcafé Schweiz. www.erzähl-cafe.ch. This is a cooperation project between Migros Kulturprozent and the Institute for Integration and Participation at the FHNW School of Social Work.
- Member of the National Forum Migration and Age Switzerland
- Reviewer for the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research
- Member of the working group on Mental Health in Old Age at Public Health Switzerland
- Member of the Religious Gerontology working group at the Centre for Gerontology at the University of Zurich
- Head of the working committee on Youth and Adult Education at the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation.