Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience
- Since 2013: Professorship “Life situations and lifestyles of recipients of child and youth welfare” at the FHNW School of Social Work
- 2011: PhD in Sociology at the University of Basel
- 2001 – 2013: Research assistant at the FHNW School of Social Work
- 1997 – 2000: Socio-pedagogical employee in Opalinus, employment centre and children’s home in Gelterkinden
- 1997: Socio-pedagogical employee in Leiern, school and children’s home in Gelterkinden
- 1996: Internships at the Bürgerliches Waisenhaus (orphanage), Basel-Stadt
Main focus
Research, development and services
- Children and adolescents: Life situations and lifestyles of children and adolescents in modern societies
- Media education: media competence, media education and media pedagogy
- Digital media and social work: Mediatisation and technologisation of social work
- Violence: social structures of violence, youth violence, right-wing extremism, violence prevention
- Qualitative and quantitative social research and evaluation
- Social theories, sociological theories, socialisation theories
Main focus in teaching
- Digital media and social work
- Structures of violence and youth violence
- Life situations and lifestyles of children and adolescents
- Social theory, critical theory
Further information
Memberships, review & commission activities
- Member of Network Media Literacy Switzerland, Federal Social Insurance Office
- Member of the feel-ok.ch expert group, ETH Zurich
- Patronage committee of the Association “digital”
- Expert for Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Expert for British Journal of Social Work, European Journal of Social Work, Journal of Technology in Human Services