At the university

• Member of the Ethics Committee of Coburg University of Applied Sciences
• Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Social Work

Outside the university

• Contact at the German Society for Social Work (DGSA)
• Reviewer in research programs

• since 2006: Professor at the Faculty of Social Work and Health at Coburg University of Applied Sciences
• 2005 – 2006: Head of the age management projects “M.E.Z. Mit Erfahrung Zukunft meistern” and “AQUA Alternsgerechte Qualifizierung”, expert moderator in the project “Pakt50 für Nürnberg” and coordination of the demography forum at the Forschungsinstitut für betriebliche Bildung, Nuremberg.
• 2004: Doctorate on “The transformation of cultural capital – further vocational training for at-risk groups of single mothers”.
  Chair of Sociology of Education; Chair of Gender Sociology, Faculty of Political Science, University of Erfurt.
• 2002 – 2005: Social work excursions to Lima, Peru/South America and Johannesburg, South Africa.
  Evaluation and scientific monitoring of a vocational qualification program for single parents (GIAB, Erfurt).
  Expertise on the socio-political development of the life situation approach (GSF Frankfurt/Main).
  Coaching as part of the federal-state program “Socially Integrative City”.
  Project manager of the LOS project “Housing for women in situations of upheaval”, Kronach.
  Project manager of the virtual teaching project “Social Space and Social Work” (vhb).
  Market analysis of the situation of spa clinics (Frauenwerk, Stein/Nuremberg).
• 1999 – 2001: Empirical analyses and social planning in the practice network of the FH Erfurt, Department of Social Work, TMWFK project “Alleinerziehen: Risks and opportunities in the labor market.”
• 1998 – 1999: Research assistant at the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg
• 1993 – 1998: Studied sociology at the University of Bamberg and at the University of Vienna, Johann Kaspar Zeuss Prize for outstanding academic work
• 1988 – 1993: Studied social pedagogy at the University of Bamberg
• 1977 – 1986: Training as an industrial clerk and commercial employment