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CV

Scientific activities

since 2024
Professor of Theory and Methods of Social Work at the Institute for Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2021 - 2024
Junior Professorship for Social Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg (10/2022-03/2024: Acting Head of the Department of Social Pedagogy at the University of Hamburg)

2021
Substitute for the W3 professorship for Theory and Methods of Social Work at the Institute for Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen (01.04.2021 - 30.09.2021)

2019
Visiting scholar at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University in New York, USA (01.09.2019 - 31.12.2019)

2018 - 2019
Parental leave

2017 - 2018
Substitute for the W3 professorship for Social Pedagogy with a focus on social policy foundations at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wuppertal (01.04.2017 - 30.09.2018)

2016
Lecturer at the Chair of Social Pedagogy at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Zurich

2015 - 2021
Lecturer at the UNIKIMS - Management School at the University of Kassel

2013 - 2021
Research assistant at the Department of Social Pedagogy with regard to its fields of action and institutions at the Faculty of Education, Sociology and Psychology at the Technical University of Dortmund

2008 - 2013
Research assistant at the Department of Educational Science with a focus on social work and extracurricular education at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Kassel

2008 - 2011
Coordinator and member of the research team “Professionalization in social and extracurricular education under the conditions of unsecuring life situations and trajectories”. The project was funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and Capes (Brazil). Cooperation between the University of Kassel and the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Porto Alegre, Brazil

2008
Scholarship holder at the German Youth Institute in the research area “Transitions to work” (6 months)

2006 - 2008
Representation of the editorial assistant in the editorial office of “Sozial Extra - Zeitschrift für Soziale Arbeit”

until 2006
Community service, numerous internships and part-time jobs in the social and educational professions, voluntary work in child and youth work

Scientific career

2016
Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Kassel with the dissertation: “Armut, soziale Ausgrenzung und die Neugestaltung des Sozialen. The food distribution of the 'Tafeln' in Germany”.

2006 - 2008
Studied at the University of Kassel in the diploma program for social professions at the second level. Graduated as a social worker and social pedagogue.

2006 - 2007
Studied abroad at the University of Wales (Cardiff) in the “Social Work” Master's program.

2001 - 2006
Studied at the University of Kassel in the diploma program for social professions at the first level. Graduated as a social worker and social pedagogue

Scholarships

2024
Poster Prize of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) for the poster “Precarious political speech. On the (im)possibility of political participation of people affected by poverty.” (together with Helen Dambach)

2019
DAAD scholarship for a guest stay at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University in New York, USA (09/2019-12/2019)

2017
DAAD scholarship for a congress trip to the congress “Social Work Education in Europe. Challenging Boundaries, Promoting a Sustainable Future” in Paris, France from June 27-29, 2017

2008
Scholarship for a six-month research stay at the German Youth Institute (DJI) in the “Research Focus: Transitions to Work” (Dr. Jan Skrobanek)

2007 - 2009
Member of the working group on recognition theory (“Difference and Dialogue: Recognition as a Strategy for Conflict Resolution”) at the Social Science College of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2006 - 2007
Funding for a semester abroad at the University of Wales in Cardiff (Great Britain) through the European Erasmus program and the German National Academic Foundation

2003 - 2008
Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation

Editorial, advisory board and reviewer activities
Co-editor

Social Passages. Journal for Empiricism and Theory of Social Work

Member of the advisory board

Social Science Literature Review (SLR)

Peer reviewer

• Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
• German Society for Educational Science
• Journal of Pedagogy
• Austrian Journal of Sociology
• Social Passages. Journal for Empiricism and Theory of Social Work
• New Practice. Journal for social work, social pedagogy and social policy
• Social Work and Society. International Online Journal
• Food Security. Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production & Access to Food

Other activities

since 2022
Member of a group to build an international network: “Theory of Recognition - Social Work Research and Theory”

since 2018
Member of the planning group of the annual “Theorie-AG” of the Commission for Social Pedagogy in the German Society for Educational Science  

2022 - 2024
Associate member of the joint project “Care Transformations. Research network for interdisciplinary care work research” at the University of Hamburg

2022 - 2023
Mentor of a student research group “#IchBinArmutsbetroffen - Thematisierungen eigener Armutsbetroffenheit in der Öffentlichkeit”. With funding from the Excellence Initiative of the University of Hamburg  

2021 - 2024
Representative for the Center for Extracurricular Practice of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg

2022
External member of an appointment committee at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences for Social Work in Hamburg

2012 - 2018
Development and design of “Annotations for Mac” - A software for analyzing qualitative data. (www.annotationsapp.com) Awarded in the UNIKAT ideas competition of the University of Kassel.

2012 - 2013
Editorial board member of the Journal for Socialist Politics and Economics (SPW)

2010 - 2013
Co-spokesperson of the Hessian Mittelbaunetzwerk

2012
Expert in the state parliament hearing “Precarious employment relationships at Hessian universities” in the Hessian state parliament (October 11, 2012)

2008 - 2011
Member of the Board of the Regional Association for Higher Education and Research of the Trade Union for Education and Science (GEW) in Kassel

until 2007
Student representative on various committees at the University of Kassel and as an expert in accreditation procedures for Bachelor's and Master's degree courses in educational science at various German universities and universities of applied sciences.