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Dr. Susanne Businger

Dr. Susanne Businger

Dr. Susanne Businger

ZHAW School of Social Work
Institute of Childhood, Youth and Family
Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8037 Zürich

+41 (0) 58 934 88 66
susanne.businger@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

Researcher and Lecturer

Focus

  • Growing up in socio-educational institutions: Home education, dealing with sexuality in socio-educational institutions, prevention of sexualized violence, history of out-of-home placements in institutions
  • Welfare and coercion: single motherhood and coercion, coercive moments in adoptions, coercive welfare measures, administrative institutional care, violence in socio-educational institutions
  • Child and youth welfare: official justifications for external placements, history of the youth welfare office, actions of authorities and parastatal organizations in adoptions

Teaching

  • Seminar "Institutional prevention of sexualised violence"
  • eminar: "Residential educational care as a field of action in child and youth welfare"
  • Seminar "Out-of-Home Placement - Researching Interventions in Childhood and Adolescence"
  • Seminar "Social control and social work in public spaces"
  • V5.1 “Interventions for coping with vulnerability in childhood and adolescence” (Substitute MV)
  • Coaching in Module 15.4 "Emancipatory, lifeworld and coping-oriented approaches to social work theory"
  • Examinations in Module 1 History and Theories of Social Work
  • “Introduction to academic writing” in module 4

Experience

  • Lecturer and researcher
    ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Science
    08 / 2024 - today
  • Research assistant
    ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Science
    03 / 2014 - 07 / 2024
  • PhD student
    University of Zurich, Research Center for Social and Economic History
    09 / 2010 - 02 / 2014
  • Research associate at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta)
    ETH Zurich
    08 / 2007 - 06 / 2012
  • editor
    Olympe - Feminist Workbooks on Politics
    01 / 2007 - 12 / 2009

Education and Continuing education

Education

  • Phd (magna cum laude) / Social and Economic History
    University of Zurich, Research Center for Social and Economic History
    01 / 2010 - 02 / 2014
  • Lizentiat (Master) / Social and Economic History
    University of Zurich
    10 / 2002 - 05 / 2009

Continuing Education

  • Trauma-Informed Education
    E-Learning Platform Child Protection in Saarland
    04 / 2026
  • CAS in higher education didactics
    Zurich University of Teacher Education (PHZH)
    04 / 2024
  • WBK project management
    ZHAW Winterthur
    12 / 2014
  • CAS in Information Science
    University of Applied Science Graubünden
    01 / 2013

Network

Membership of networks

SGSA Commission Violence and sexualised Violence in Social Work

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4026-4601

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Books, peer-reviewed

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Other publications

Oral conference contributions and abstracts