Career path

• Since 01/2023: Research assistant at the Chair of Business Education
• 09/2020 - 12/2022: Employed business psychologist, advising healthcare institutions on personnel and organisational development
• 10/2019 - 06/2020: Employed job coach, providing individual coaching to analyse professional and personal situations
• 03/2017 - 08/2019: Working student in management consulting for organisational and leadership development

Studies

• 09/2016 - 05/2019: Master's degree in Business Psychology (M.Sc.), Master's thesis: Profession as a vocation, quantitative study of the concept of vocation in a social and business context
• 09/2012 - 03/2016: Bachelor's degree in International Business Administration (B.A.), Bachelor's thesis: Descriptive study of marketing strategies for building the brand of a non-profit organisation

Current projects

Meaning as a resource: Sensemaking methods for increasing resilience in companies (SENSILIENZ)

Duration: 1 January 2026 – 31 December 2028

SENSILIENZ adapts storytelling and sensemaking methods to promote resilience among employees, teams and organisations. The aim is to establish a theoretically and empirically sound catalogue of measures that can be applied across all industries. To this end, resilience resources in SMEs are identified and mobilised in four industries (care, medical technology, IT, mechanical engineering) by implementing the adapted methods for four application scenarios per company. This is accompanied by a potential analysis of technical assistance, such as AI-based moderation. The methods for sensemaking and resilience are evaluated iteratively and finally consolidated in the companies. The preparation in a modular and multimedia approach enables transfer to other SMEs.

This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) as part of the ‘Future of Work’ programme.

Further information can be found here.

Completed projects

ALL:konkret: The world of work as a context for lifelong learning – Ethnographic studies on actors, agendas and arenas

Duration: 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2024

As a continuation of the ‘BWB:konkret’ project, ‘ALL:konkret’ also aims to provide an inductive description of the reality of continuing vocational training in companies. During ethnographic visits to companies lasting several weeks, data, documents and information that are not pre-structured by hypotheses are collected, for example through work shadowing, participant observation, individual and group interviews or the analysis of documents. The collected data is analysed in joint research workshops and fed into further phases of data collection and evaluation. The results of this circular research process are case-specific organisational analyses that reveal the individual specifics of the reality of continuing vocational training in an organisation and make them discussable for both research and personnel and organisational development in the organisations under investigation. The organisational analyses produced are also reflected upon in joint workshops with the organisations under investigation. The specific objectives are as follows:

• Reconstruction of structures, strategies, organisational forms and technologies of workplace learning (system perspective)

• Reconstruction of meaningful motives, action-oriented theories, contradictory requirements for action and cooperation in workplace continuing education practice (actor perspective)

• Reconstruction of historical lines of development, cycles of conditions, decision-making processes and the interlinking of continuing vocational training with external and social processes (process perspective)

• Extraction of criteria for quality and professionalism in non-formal continuing education in workplace contexts

• Organisational and professional classification of continuing vocational training

• Development of a scheme for surveying corporate learning cultures and educational practice

• Development of conceptual approaches and action strategies for the further development of an innovative continuing education policy

• Didactic preparation of case studies for teaching purposes in the academic training and continuing education of educational staff

   

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