Teaching

My teaching is based on the belief that learning social psychology means learning to evaluate evidence. Students should be able to engage critically with empirical research, understand what specific designs can and cannot establish, and develop their own research questions.

University Teaching

At the bachelor’s level, I have taught core social psychology content, covering topics such as stereotypes and prejudice, intergroup relations, and collective action, with a focus on working directly with empirical studies. Students engage with original research to develop a realistic sense of how psychological knowledge is produced and contested.

At the master’s level, my teaching has centered on project-based seminars in which students develop and carry out their own empirical studies in small groups. These seminars followed a structured research process from question development through data collection to write-up. I have run several such modules at FernUniversität in Hagen and currently teach seminars at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg connecting social psychological research to questions of education, discrimination, and diversity, with a focus on students training to become teachers or work in social professions.

Practitioner Training

Since 2019, I have taught workshops for early childhood educators on stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination in educational settings. These workshops translate findings from social psychological research into practical frameworks for recognizing and reflecting on bias in everyday professional contexts. Participants acquire knowledge on how stereotypes form, how they operate, and what this means for interactions with children and families from diverse backgrounds.

KoDiTa

As co-director of KoDiTa (Constructive Diversity Talk for Prospective Teachers), I am involved in developing and evaluating a higher education program that aims to prepare future teachers for constructive engagement with conversations about diversity. The project connects empirical research on intergroup relations to teacher education and is funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre.