Curriculum Vitae Dr. Ramona Thümmler
| since April 2016 | postdoc with the University of Tubingen’s Institute of Educational Science. Working out of the Department of Social Pedagogy, she has been assigned to one of its desks: Kindheits- und familienpädagogische Forschung (KipF) – see above |
| 2015-2016 | postdoc in educational science with the Heidelberg School of Education |
| SoSe 2015 & WS 2015/2016 | term-appointed lecturer with the MSB Medical School in Berlin. The course she taught there was titled: “Transdisciplinary early-life promotion” |
| WS 2014/2015 | acting professorship in childhood pedagogy at the Fachhochschule Erfurt |
| January 2014 | finished a doctorate with the Technische Universität Dortmund. The topic of her thesis was: “ADHD caught between the professions – an empirical study of structures of interdisciplinary collaboration” |
| since 2011 | trained as a psychotherapist with a childhood and adolescence focus (during training, she worked in childhood and adolescence psychiatry at the University of Tubingen; also in the walk-in practice set up for students of that university and run by the Institute of Psychology) |
| 2007-2015 | research assistant with the Fakultät für Sonderpädagogik of the Pädagogischen Hochschule Ludwigsburg (see below for an explanation of Sonderpädagogik). Focus: fostering social and emotional development in children and adolescents |
| 2004-2007 | contributed pedagogical and therapeutic expertise to a project targeting children and adolescents; helped out in a rehab clinic and in a practice with a childhood and adolescence focus |
| 1998-2004 | studied educational science at the Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, as well as in Valence (France). Among her interests from that time are what in Germany is known as “special pedagogy” [i.e. a branch of pedagogy devoted to fostering the development of children and adolescents with special needs]. She also studied sociology and psychology. She graduated Diplom-Pädagogin with a thesis on the possibilities opened up by the Internet as a support system for families with a handicapped child. |