Teaching

Teaching

At the University of Amsterdam, I teach and coordinate courses on European politics, the European Union, welfare states, social citizenship and migration as well as research skills. A list of my current courses can be found here. Currently, I am also part of a project on an intermediary (further) training for innovative democracy education, financed by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

At the University of Kent, I was lucky and honored to receive a fully-funded PhD stipend from Q-Step, a £19.5 million teaching project funded by Nuffield, Higher Education Funding Council for England, and the Economic and Social Research Council, where we developed as a team innovative and inclusive teaching methods in the social science as well as taught new courses to our students. As part of my role in the team at the Q-Step Centre in Kent, I systematically evaluated the outcomes of these courses in the Kent Self-Study. I published an experimental evaluation of the project as the leading author in the Journal of Political Science Education, which you can access here.

During my five year BA/MA studies at the University of Hamburg, I worked as a supervisor in the Research Laboratory for surveys and experiments at the Department of Business, Economics and Social Science. Before starting my studies, I had different teaching roles, including experiences in rural UNESCO-affiliated high-schools in Mexico, during a social volunteer year through the German government program, weltwärts.

I participated in a wide range of teaching training. Amongst others, I finished the University Teaching Qualification (BKO) at the University of Amsterdam, the Developing Your Teaching Certificate at the University of Kent, and I am also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

My current and past teaching includes the following BA/MA courses:

  • The future of European integration (University of Amsterdam)
  • A global crisis of democracies? Change and continuity in 21st century politics (University of Amsterdam)
  • The present and future of European social citizenship (University of Amsterdam)
  • Research project II: Practising research skills (University of Amsterdam)
  • The social dimension of the European Union (University of Amsterdam)
  • Introduction to comparative social policy (University of Konstanz)
  • Political economy in the era of globalization (University of Konstanz)
  • Radical right parties and the welfare state (University of Konstanz)
  • Working-class politics (University of Konstanz)
  • Migration and the welfare state (University of Konstanz)
  • Critical thinking (University of Kent)
  • Doing social research with numbers (University of Kent)
  • Social research methods (University of Kent)
  • An introduction to quantitative social research (University of Kent)
  • Qualitative social research methods (University of Kent)