Academical Profile

02/2009

PhD (phil.), Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, TU Dortmund University, "Disability in International Discourse. The flexible classification of the World Health Organization"

12/2004

2nd state examination for the teaching profession at elementary and secondary schools with special education, religion and politics

1999 - 2000

Intercultural studies (additional studies for teachers of children of different mother tongues)

06/1999

1st state examination for the teaching profession at primary and secondary schools with special pedagogical specialization

1993 - 1999

Studies of educational science, pedagogy of the mentally handicapped and learning disabled, evangelical theology, University of Hamburg

Since 10/2020 - University of Kassel

Professor at the Institute of Social Work in the Department of Human Sciences, Head of the Section of Disability, Inclusion and Social Participation

09/2013 - 09/2020 -Bremen University of Applied Sciences

W2 professorship "Social work with a focus on health" at the Faculty of Social Sciences

04/2017 - 09/2018 - Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Lectureships in the Disability Rights module of the international Master of Human Rights.

12/2012 - 08/2013 - University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer

W2-Professorship for Social Work with focus on special education and rehabilitation science

09/2009 - 11/2012 - German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin

Social Science Officer at the Monitoring Body for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Policy advice at federal and state level as well as at the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs on participation of disabled people

Training for the Azerbaijani Ombudsman-Institution for Human Rights on behalf of GIZ as representative of the German Institute for Human Rights, Baku, Azerbaijan, 01.-05.08.2011

05/2009 - 11/2012 - Humboldt University Berlin, Ev. University of Applied Sciences Berlin and EH Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe, University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal

Lectureships in English and German

03/2009 - 08/2009 - Institute Human, Ethics and Science, Berlin

Research Assistant

01/2002 - 03/2009 - University of Hamburg

Freelancer at the Research Program Biotechnology, Society and Environment (FSP BIOGUM), Research Group Medicine/Neurosciences

04/2001 - 03/2003 - Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg

Research assistant in the research project Humanism in the 19th and 20th century, Institute for General Pedagogy

08/2003 - 03/2009 - Authority for School and Vocational Training, Hamburg

Teacher and pedagogue for the disabled children in integration classes at the Erich Kästner Comprehensive School (since 08/2005), the Bergstedt Comprehensive School (07/2004 - 07/2005) and the Astrid-Lindgren-Förderschule (08/2003 - 07/2004)

Head of the Working Group for Disability Education and member of the Coordination Group Integration (08/2005 - 03/2009) of the EKG

10/2017-12/2017 - Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Visiting Scholar at the Center of Disability Studies, (research semester WS 2017/18)

06/2016-07/2016 - DAAD-funded research trip to Israel.

"Perspectives on Disability after the Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities".

09/1995 - 01/1996 - University of Limerick, Limerick, Republic of Ireland

Study of the subjects: Education, Irish Society, Irish Studies

16.10.2018-18.06.2019

Head of the lecture series "100 Years of Social Women's School in Bremen - Topics in Social Work Today", in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Corinna Grühn and Milena Konrad, University of Applied Sciences Bremen

22.03.-14.06.2016

Leading the lecture series "Flight and Refugees. Perspectives and insights from Bremen's professional practice", in cooperation with Prof. Can Aybek and Marie Seedorf, Bremen University of Applied Sciences

17.-19.04.2015

Organization and management of the conference: "Everything self-determined? Functioning. Control. Optimize." 20 years network against selection by prenatal diagnostics, in team with the network, Bremen University of Applied Sciences.

25.10.2011

Organization and realization of the conference: "UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Germany on the way to a barrier-free society?", in the team of the Monitoring Agency, German Institute for Human Rights and in cooperation with the Federal Competence Center for Accessibility, Berlin

11.11.2010

Organization and realization of the conference: "Empowerment und Co-determination. Participation in political processes", in the team of the Monitoring Body, German Institute for Human Rights Berlin

25.10.2010

Organization and realization of the expert discussion: "Human Rights-Based Indicators", in the team of the Monitoring Body, German Institute for Human Rights Berlin

08.12.2009

Organization and realization of the conference: "When the world has to change for me..."The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the concept of "reasonable accommodation", in the team of the Monitoring Body, German Institute for Human Rights Berlin

08.12.2001

Organization of the conference Humanities Education, War and Nazism. Critical questions about the connection between pedagogy, politics and military, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg

08.01.2001

Organization and realization of the conference " Significance of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas for today's educational thinking", University of Hamburg.

09/2013 - 09/2020

Regular courses on: Disability and participation; Health sciences; Human rights for all, also with severe impairments; Disability, body, health; Inclusive education as a societal challenge; Human rights and diversity (engl.), Introduction to scientific work (Hochschule Bremen, full teaching load (18 SWS) since WS 2013/14).

04/2017 - 10/2018

Disability Rights, international English-language Master of Human Rights, Faculty of Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2 SWS in cooperation with Dr. Thomas Bernhard)

12/2012 - 08/2012

Regular courses on: Disability as a Diversity Category, Ethics in Politics and Sustainability, Developmental and Socialization Theories, Individual Learning under Constrained Conditions, Severe Impairments as a Challenge for Inclusive Early Education, Patho- and Salutogenesis in Application, Disability and More: Interdependencies and Intersectionality (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, pro rata in WS 2012/13, full teaching load (18 SWS) SoSe 2013).

09/2012 - 01/2013

Disability Studies - interdisciplinary sciences of disability: Since when, by whom and for what purpose founded, Faculty of Special Education, Ev. University of Applied Sciences Rhineland Westphalia-Lippe

10/2010 - 03/2011

Disability/non-disability and the discussion of interdependencies, Faculty of Gender Studies, Humboldt University Berlin (with Carola Pohlen)

04/2010 - 07/2010

Disease, Illness and Identity, Bachelor of Nursing, Ev. University of Applied Sciences Berlin

04/2010 - 07/2010

Introduction to Disability Studies, Bachelor of Nursing, Ev. University of Applied Sciences Berlin

10/2009 - 02/2010

Models of Disability, Program in Rehabilitation Psychology, Magdeburg/Stendal University of Applied Sciences

10/2009 - 02/2010

Family Care and Cultural Diversity, Bachelor of Nursing, Ev. University of Applied Sciences Berlin

10/2009 - 01/2010

What is a Chronic Illness?, Bachelor of Nursing, Ev. University of Applied Sciences Berlin

04/2009 - 07/2009

Disability Studies with a main focus on the Social Model of Disability, Ev. University of Applied Sciences Berlin

10/2002 - 02/2003

Michel Foucault's Discourse Theory and his Concept of Disciplinary Power, Department of Education, Helmut Schmidt-University Hamburg

04/2002 - 07/2002

Humanism and conceptions of democracy of emigrated scientists (with Dr. Anja Göing), Department of Education, Helmut Schmidt-University Hamburg

10/1999 - 02/2000

French Philosophers: Emmanuel Levinas and the Significance of his Philosophy for Educational Theory and Practice, Department of Educational Science, University of Hamburg

Since January 2022

Advising the German Desk, Education Department, Yad Vashem on the inclusive design of their pedagogical history didactic offerings in accordance with human rights-based accessible standards.

Since Sept. 2021

Consulting in the series of expert discussions of the Open Ended Working Group on Ageing of the UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Dr. Claudia Mahler at the German Institute for Human Rights

06/2019 - 11/2019

Jury member in the project "andersartig gedenken on stage", a nationwide theater competition on biographies of victims of Nazi euthanasia of the working group gedenkort-T4.eu

01/2018-04/2018

Consultation of the Senator for Social Affairs, Youth, Women, Integration and Sports, Department 30 - Outpatient and Inpatient Housing for People with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities, on the selection of needs assessment tools for the state of Bremen in accordance with the -requirements of the Federal Participation Act (BTHG).

Since January 2016

Jury member in the project "andersartig gedenken on stage", a nationwide theater competition on biographies of victims of Nazi euthanasia of the working group gedenkort-T4.eu

10/2013

Review of the thematic issue "Behinderung" (disability) of the Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes, commissioned by the Robert-Koch-Institute

08/2011

Training for the Azerbaijani Ombudsman-Institution for Human Rights on behalf of GIZ as representative of the German Institute for Human Rights, Baku, Azerbaijan