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Dr. Vanessa Gut

Dr. Vanessa Gut

Dr. Vanessa Gut

ZHAW School of Health Sciences
Institute of Public Health

+41 (0) 58 934 49 78
vanessa.gut@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research associate / Postdoctoral researcher

Education and Continuing education

Focus

Thematic focus: Exercise and sport promotion, health behaviour change (especially motivation and volition for regular physical activity), Health promotion and diseases prevention in health care, Work and health; life span perspective with a focus on critical life events (e.g. educational transition or retirement transition) Methodological focus: -Psychometrics: Questionnaire development and -validation (e.g. measurement invariance testing) -Advanced quantitative methods: Focus exploratory structural equation modeling and mixture models (e.g. latent profile analysis with multinominal regression analysis, latent transition analysis)

Experience

  • Lecturer and Senior Researcher for quantitative Methods and Public Health
    Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Lucerne
    02 / 2024 - today
  • Research associate/ Postdoctorial researcher
    Institut of Public Health, Zurich University of Applied Science, Winterthur, Switzerland
    09 / 2022 - today
  • Project leader/Research associate
    Interface Politikstudien Forschung Beratung AG, Luzern
    04 / 2021 - 08 / 2022
  • Research associate
    Federal Office of Statistics, Neuchâtel
    01 / 2021 - 03 / 2021
  • Research associate I (Lecturer)
    Institute of Sport Science, Department of Sport Psychology and Research Methods, University of Bern, Berne
    05 / 2019 - 11 / 2020
  • Research assistant
    Institute of Sport Science, Department of Sport Psychology and Research Methods, University of Bern, Berne
    04 / 2015 - 04 / 2019
  • Internship
    Federal Office of Sport, Magglingen
    03 / 2015 - 05 / 2015
  • Student research Assistant
    Institute of Sports Science, University of Bern, Berne
    03 / 2013 - 12 / 2014
  • Research Internship
    Institute of Sport Science, University of Bern, Berne
    04 / 2011 - 10 / 2011

Education

  • PhD / Sport Science
    Institute of Sport Science, University of Bern, Berne
    05 / 2015 - 06 / 2020
  • MSc / Master of Science in Psychology
    University of Bern, Berne
    09 / 2012 - 03 / 2015
  • BSc / Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Minor in Sport Science and Social Science
    University of Bern, Berne
    09 / 2009 - 06 / 2012

Membership of networks

Sportwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft der Schweiz SGS

Awards

  • Poster Award
    German Association of Sport Psychology (asp)
    03 / 2020
  • Young Investigator Award
    health-commission of the German Federation of Sport Science (dvs)
    04 / 2019

Projects

Publications

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW