
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
- 06/2021- 12/2024 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