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Focus of work
- Grants Officer
Professional interests
- Leadership and independence in self-organised learning settings
- Digital platforms
- Autonomy and governance in education
- Qualitative research, especially ethnography
- Anthropology and Sociology of Education
- Open science
Education
- 2024 Research stay (SNSF scientific exchange) at the Learning and Educational Technologies Research Unit (Ogata Lab) at the University of Kyoto, Japan
- 2007 PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Bern
- 2003–2005 Member of the Swiss Graduate School of Social Anthropology
- 2003–2004 SNSF scholarship
- 2002 MA in Social Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, University of Bern
- 1998–2002 Studies in Social Anthropology, Sociology and Economics at the Universities of Bern and Berlin
- 1994–1996 Education in Theatre Pedagogics (Themenzentriertes Theater)
- 1985–1987 Bachelor in Economics and Sociology at the University of Bern
Professional experience
- Since 2010 Research Officer (counselling and support for researchers) at the Institute for Research, Development and Evaluation, PHBern
- Teaching at the IPS (supervision of Bachelor's theses) and Master's programme in Didactics TTG (research training), PHBern
- 2019-2024 Head of Open Research Programme, Institute for Research, Development and Evaluation, PHBern
- Since 2009 Project manager at the Centre for Research and Development, PHBern
- 2010 Lecturer at the Department of Social Work, Bern University of Applied Sciences
- 2004-2009 Research assistant at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Bern (with independent organisation of courses)
- 1993–1998 Director of a streetwork project with children, funded by: Catholic Church, Bern
- 1991–1993 Coordinator and Animator of social work with children in the city of Bern
- 1985–1990 Journalist (Rheintalische Volkszeitung, Berner Zeitung, Berner Tagwacht)
Commissions, mandates and memberships
- Reviewer swissuniversities ‘Open Science’ programme (2020-2024)
- Reviewer Swiss National Science Foundation
- Reviewer for various international journals
- Working Group Anthropology & Education of the Swiss
Anthropological
Association (SSA) - European Educational Research Association, NW 28, Sociologies of Education
- Working Group Social and Cultural Sciences at Universities of Teacher Education (2020-2024)
- Swiss Society for Research in Education (SSRE)
BeLEARN-Projekte
Research projects outside of Bern University of Teacher Education
- 2008–2009: Collaboration in the international research project "Decision Making under the Impact of Glacial Retreat among Residents of Vulnerable Zones: Perception of and Response to Climate Change", sub-study in South Tyrol; Project Director: Prof. Benjamin S. Orlove, University of California, Davis
- 2002–2007 Ethnographic research project on shamanism in post-Socialist Mongolia
- 2001–2002 Collaboration in a research project on the sustainable development of mountain regions in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern
Publications