Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience
Education
- 2012-2017: Master’s in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology at the Universities of Basel and Vienna
- 2007-2010: Bachelor’s studies in Social Work at the FHNW School of Social Work
Career milestones
- 2013-2018: Socio-educational support and advice for young people in a voluntary context
- 2013-2014: Fundraising for a neighbourhood centre
- 2011/2012: Management of a socio-educational programme advising unemployed young people
- 2010-2012/2013: Advisory role in youth and family counselling, including child protection mandates and child welfare matters
- 2008-2009/2010: Church social work; advice on finances and debts, social counselling, community work
Main focus
- Security discourse in social work
- Qualitative social research / ethnographic field research
- (Audio-)visual anthropology
- Anthropology of the senses
- Urban anthropology / reading the urban
- Theory of mind
- Systemic and solution-oriented counselling, lifeworld-oriented social work
Further information
Publications and projects
Memberships, review & commission activities
Editorial member of the Bulletin “Schweizer Volkskunde” (Swiss Ethnology), published by the Swiss Society of Ethnology