Research focus/interests

• Writing development (writing texts and school text types)
• Writing skills
• Interpretive writing at upper secondary level
• Procedure-orientated didactics

Research project

The interpretive essay from a didactic writing perspective: A design-research study on interpretive writing using text procedures in upper secondary school (working title)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke

Three-part poster workshop for students taking part in ‘Posters in the Bundestag: Academic Freedom – The Freedom to Research’, organised by the University of Oldenburg and the Berlin University Alliance, online (April/May 2026)

• ‘Introductory poster workshop on “Posters in the Bundestag: Presenting Research on Posters”’ (10 April 2026)
• ‘Poster conference on “Posters in the Bundestag: Presenting Research on Posters”’ (24 April 2026)
• ‘Designing a poster pitch for “Posters in the Bundestag”’ (8 May 2026)

Preparatory poster workshop for participating students at the “10th Conference on Student Research” at the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg (28 April 2025)

• “Presenting research on posters: A workshop on scientific poster design for students”

Presentation at the lunch meeting “Research-based learning at the University of Oldenburg” organised by the Centre for Higher Education Pedagogy at the University of Oldenburg, online (26 November 2024)

• ‘Experiences from the seminar “Inquiry-based learning with text procedures: Different perspectives on the subject matter, incorporating secondary school text types”’

Presentation at ‘Brain on Tap – Knowledge Freshly Tapped’, organised by the Oldenburg Network for Science Communication (OLWIK), Oldenburg (19 September 2024)

• ‘“How do I spell that again?!” – A journey of discovery into the systematics of the German written language’

Poster presentation at the 25th Symposium on German Language Teaching ‘Transdisciplinary German Language Teaching’, Mainz (15–18 September 2024)

• “Interpretative writing in upper secondary education: Developing procedure-based learning materials using the design-research approach”

Organisation of the student conference “Text Procedures: Different Perspectives on the Subject Matter, Taking into Account Text Types from Primary and Secondary Education”, Oldenburg (28 February 2024)

Organisation of the workshop “Interdisciplinary Research into Language-Aware Subject Teaching” by the research cluster “Language-Aware Subject Teaching/Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning” at the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg (6 December 2023)

Presentation at the conference for early-career researchers as part of the Mercator Institute’s annual conference ‘Capturing the World in Language – Textuality as a Feature of Educational Language’, Cologne (20 March 2023)

• ‘A look into the toolbox of interpretative writing: Initial analysis results on textual procedures in interpretative texts’

Organisation of the workshop ‘Inquiry-based learning in writing pedagogy’ with Burçin Amet and presentation of an experience report, Oldenburg (28 February 2023)

• “Designing seminars on research-based learning with students – practical recommendations for action” with Burçin Amet

Poster presentation at the 2nd Design-Based Research Early-Career Colloquium, online (20 January 2023)

• ‘The interpretative text from a writing didactics perspective: A design-research study on interpretative writing using text procedures in upper secondary education’

Poster presentation at the 24th Symposium on German Language Teaching, Vienna (18–22 September 2022)

• ‘The interpretative text from a writing pedagogy perspective – a design-research study on procedure-based writing’

Organisation of the 22nd North German Linguistic Colloquium “Interconnections between Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Acquisition” with Burçin Amet and Marina Frank, Oldenburg (7–8 April 2022)

Project presentation as part of the Working Space at the workshop “Subject-Specific Developmental Research in German Language Teaching – Focusing on Subject-Specific Learning Processes” (22–23 March 2022)