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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 "Social Control and Social Work in Public Spaces"
  • Seminar "Out-of-Home Placement - Researching Interventions in Childhood and Adolescence".
  • Examinations in Module 1 History and Theories of Social Work
  • Coaching in Module 15.4 "Emancipatory, lifeworld and coping-oriented approaches to social work theory"
  • Supervision of bachelor and master theses
  • V5.1 “Interventions for coping with vulnerability in childhood and adolescence” (Substitute MV)
  • “Introduction to academic writing” in module 4

Experience

  • Lecturer and Researcher
    ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Science
    08 / 2024 - today
  • Research associate and projekt management
    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

  • 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

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Books and monographs, peer-reviewed
Book parts, peer-reviewed
Other publications
Oral conference contributions and abstracts