Education
- 1983 - 1989 Studies in Social Work/Social Pedagogy at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bamberg
- 1984 - 1990 Studied Sociology at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Bamberg
- 1986 - 1991 Studied Turkish at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the University of Bamberg and at the University of Ankara (DAAD scholarship)
- 1993 Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol., magna cum laude) with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Beck (second examiner: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schulze) on postmodern gender roles and partnership models
- 1998 - 2004 Studied Chinese at the Volkshochschule Stuttgart and Bamberg and at the University of Qingdao, China
Professional activity
- May 89 - Aug. 90 Pedagogical director of a mobile children's culture project: conceptualisation, design and staging of plays and play activities, training of staff, PR tasks, coordination and moderation of events
- May 90 - Sept. 94 Staff member at the BASIS Institute for Social Planning, Consultancy and Design: conception and implementation of evaluation, research and social planning projects
- Dec. 91 - Aug. 94 Research assistant at the Social Science Research Centre of the University of Bamberg (Prof. Dr. Vaskovics) in the research projects:
"Shell-Jugendstudie" "Familienkontext junger Erwachsener" (DFG project)
"Intergenerative Transferbeziehungen in der Postadoleszenz" (DFG project)
- Oct. 94 - Aug. 95 Social Worker at Bukit Ho Swee Social Service Centre, Singapore, a cross-target neighbourhood centre with programmes on day care, open youth work, alternative schooling, family counselling and support, open and outreach work with the elderly and volunteer training.
Main areas of work:
Individual case work in the field of family counselling, group programmes for adolescents, development and evaluation of a concept of short-term inpatient family therapy for low-income families.
- Oct. 95 - May 96: Project management at the BASIS Institute for Social Planning, Counselling and Design: Expertise on housing concepts for people with disabilities on behalf of the Lebenshilfe Erlangen (comparative compilation of innovative forms of housing in Europe, quantitative forecasts of demand, expectations of housing concepts from the point of view of those affected and their relatives).
- June 96 - June 00 Youth welfare planner at the city of Stuttgart with the main focus of work: Help for upbringing, social reporting, inter-communal comparisons of key figures. Head of the practice development project "Umbau der Hilfen zur Erziehung in Stuttgart".
- July 00 - Sep. 01 Managing Director of Kapiti Welcome Trust Inc, Wellington, New Zealand, a facility for mental health consumers and people with disabilities: Management, staff development, quality development, funding
- Oct. 01 - Feb. 02 National Youth Council, Singapore: led the evaluation of a nationwide prevention and resocialisation programme for youth members of street corner gangs.
- Oct. 01 - Feb. 02 Beyond Social Services, Singapore External consultant for the organisational development project "Esprit de Beyond".
- Mar. 02 - Sept.07 University of Bamberg, Department of Social Services: Professor for ethics, theory and practice development of social work
- Oct. 07 University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Department of Social and Educational Sciences: Professor of Social Work
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2014 - 2017 Programme Director BA Social Work
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2016 - 2017 Associate Dean at the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences
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Since 2017 Dean of the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences