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Kathrin Sophie Förster

PhD student in "Cultural Participation in the Museum II"

Qualifications and professional career

  • since 11/2023 Research assistant to Prof. Dr Sandra Verena Müller, Professor of Rehabilitation and Participation at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences Wolfenbüttel, Faculty of Social Work
  • Research activity in the sub-project "Cultural Participation in Museums - Developing Participatory Access to Museums for People with Intellectual Disabilities II" of the Leibniz Science Campus Braunschweig - Postdigital Participation
  • 12/2020 - 10/2023 Research assistant, Clinic for Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Hannover Medical School
  • 2022/2023 Lecturer in the Master's program Preventive Social Work, seminars: Social inequality and health; rehabilitation institutions, Ostfalia, Wolfenbüttel
  • since 06/2021 Head of office, Scientific and Medical Alliance for Rehabilitation (WMAR)
  • 11/2019- 12/2021 Social pedagogue in the area of open support, Lebenshilfe Wolfsburg gGmbH
  • 09/2017- 08/2019 Master of Arts: Preventive Social Work, focus: Prevention & Rehabilitation, Ostfalia, Wolfenbüttel
  • 04/2017- 09/2017 Social pedagogue in the clinical social service, Klinikum Wolfsburg                  
  • 09/2013 - 09/2016 Bachelor of Arts: Social Work, Ostfalia, Wolfenbüttel

Main research areas

  • Participation of people with intellectual disabilities
  • Health services research
  • Rehabilitative gaps in care
  • Return to working life