I do enjoy teaching and mentoring a lot and consider it together with research as the main part of my work. I do also firmly believe that teaching and research do benefit from each other. My teaching philosophy is based on three pillars: i) researching student ii) interlocking of teaching, and academic as well as non- academic work and iii) teaching as equals.
I have taught several bachelor and master level classes at among others the universities of Bremen Dortmund, Essen, Niederrhein and Siegen. Topics of my classes were life course approach, quantitative data analysis, social structure, inequalities in old age, social change and old age security. Furthermore, I have also supervised bachelor and master thesis on topics such as social inequalities in old age, retirement expectations in couples, loneliness in old age and reconciliation of work and care. My teaching has won several awards among them the Teaching Award 2024 of the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein. |