Other Functions and Activities
since 2026 member of the editorial board of the journal Media of Control
since 2025 Member of the Verein zur Förderung abschlussbezogener Jugend- und Erwachsenenbildung e.V., Träger der Tages- und Abendschule Köln (TAS)
since 2023 Senator for the Faculty of Human Sciences/Senate at the University of Cologne
since 2022 Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the German Youth Institute (DJI)
since 2021 Chair of the Jury for the German Child and Youth Welfare Award - Hermine Albers Award of the Child and Youth Welfare Association – AGJ
since 2020 Member of the German counseling board on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's General Comment on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment
since 2020 Member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Neue Praxis
since 2020 associated scientist of the DFG Research Training Group 2493 "Consequences of Social Services Work" at the University of Siegen
since 2013 Member of the supervisory board of the ombud institution for young people in youth welfare in Northrhine-Westfalia (Ombudschaft Jugendhilfe NRW)
since 2013 Member of the JFF – Institut für Medienpädagogik
since 2011 Member of the German Commitee for UNICEF
since 2011 co-editor of the book series "Transformation des Sozialen - Transformation Sozialer Arbeit" (collective editorship of the Hans-Böckler graduate center "Widersprüche gesellschaftlicher Integration")
since 2010 Member of the German Youth Institute Deutschen Jugendinstituts (DJI)
since 2009 Member of the Journal Editorial Board of Beirats der Fachzeitschrift Soziale Passagen - Journal für Empirie und Theorie Sozialer Arbeit (Springer VS)
since 2009 Member of the Journal Editorial Board of "Sozial Extra" (Springer VS)
2024/2025 Member of the Scientific Counseling Board for the National Youth Report Luxemburg 2025
2022-2024 Member of the expert counseling board for digitization of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau
2022 Member of the Expert Commission for the 17th Child and Youth Report of the Federal Government
2018-2024 Member of the supervisory board of the project "Medienerziehung im Dialog von Kita und Familie" (Digital Opportunities Foundation/Stiftung Digitale Chancen in Co-operation with Ravensburger Verlag)
2016-2019 Member of the scientific counseling board of the Akademie für Leseförderung Niedersachsen
2018 - 2023 Co-operating Partner of the Graduierteninstitut NRW (Fachgruppe Soziales und Gesundheit)
2018 - 2022 Member of the extended steering committee of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendschutz (AJS), Landesstelle Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. (Köln)
2019-2022 Member of the Federal Youth Board (Bundesjugendkuratorium) during the 19th legislative period of the German Federal Government
The Federal Youth Board (Bundesjugendkuratorium) is an independent panel of experts who advise the German Federal Government in matters of children's and youth welfare, and also on current policy issues concerning children and youth.)
2018-2022 Member of the supervisory board (Caritasrat) of the Caritas welfare agency in the city of Cologne (Caritasverband der Stadt Köln e.V.)
2018-2020 Member of the Network Steering Committee of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies
2017-2020 Member of the supervisory board of the Niedersächsische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung
2016-2017 Member of the Kinderkommission Niedersachsen (children's commission)
2015-2017 Mitglied of the expert board of Monitor Digitale Bildung in Deutschland (Bertelsmann Foundation)
2015/2016 Counseling expert in the dialogue process of the government of the Federal State of Northrhine-Westfalia "NRW 4.0 - Lernen im digitalen Wandel"
2015 Member of the expert board of the Transferstelle Politische Bildung
2014-2017 Member of the Bundesjugendkuratorium during the 18th legislative period of the German Federal Government
(The Federal Youth Board (Bundesjugendkuratorium) is an independent panel of experts who advise the Federal Government in matters of children's and youth welfare, and also on current policy issues concerning children and youth.)
2013 Visiting Fellow at the Department of Social Work/School of Sociology and Political Science at Shanghai University (June/July)
2012/13 Member of the Ad-hoc Working Group "Partizipationsmöglichkeiten und Beteiligungsgerechtigkeit in der digital vernetzten Gesellschaft" of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK)
2011-2021 Member of the scientific journal editorial board of Kinder- und Jugendschutz in Wissenschaft und Praxis (KJug)
2010-2012 Member of the Commission of Experts for the 14th Child and Youth Report of the Federal Government (14. Kinder- und Jugendbericht der Bundesregierung)
2010/2011 Member of the program committee for the 14. Deutschen Jugendhilfetag (www.djht.de)
2010-2013 Counseling expert in the dialogue internet of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ)
2010-2014 Member of the expert board for the „klicksafe Preis für Sicherheit im Internet"
2009-2015 Member of the board of cooperation partners and vice speaker of the graduate center of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung "Widersprüche gesellschaftlicher Integration"
2008-2016 Member of the Editorial Board of the book series "Studies in Comparative Social Pedagogies and International Social Work and Social Policy": www.socialcomparison.org
2007-2009 Member of the counseling board of the project "Digital Divide - Digitale Kompetenz im Kindesalter" (Deutsches Jugendinstitut/German Youth Institute, München)
2009 Scientific board for the further development of the Schulbriefe (Arbeitskreis Neue Erziehung e.V. Berlin)
2008-2009 Scientific counseling of the development of pedagogical aims in the context of the re-structuring of catholic child care centers in the Aachen diocese
2007-2008 Member of the counseling board of the project KON TE XIS (Technischer Jugendfreizeit- und Bildungsverein - tjfbv, Berlin)
2007/2008 PhD Supervisor at the PhD-Network of The International "Social Work & Society" Academy (TISSA)
2007-2016 Editor of the international Social Work & Society News Magazine SocMag: SocMag Archive
since 2006 Member of the Kompetenzzentrum Soziale Dienste (kom.sd)-Kompetenznetzwerk
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Memberships
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE)
German Network of Forced Migration Researchers
Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur (GMK)
Association of Internet Researchers ( AOIR)
Digital Divide Network
Reviews
Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR)
Behaviour & Information Technology
Child Indicators Research
DISKURS Kindheits- und Jugendforschung
Die deutsche Schule (DDS)
DLR Projektträger
Frühe Bildung - Zeitschrift für Erziehung und Bildung inklusive Betreuung im Kindesalter
Information Communication and Society (International Journal for the Information Age)
Media and Communication (MaC)
MedienPädagogik - Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung
merzWissenschaft
M&K - Medien Kommunikation
Neue Praxis
Schweizer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Social Media & Society
Social Work & Society
Soziale Passagen
UK Research and Innovation Funding Service (UKRI)
ZBBS - Zeitschrift für qualitative Bildungs-, Beratungs und Sozialforschung
Zeitschrift für Bildungsforschung (ZEFB)
ZfPäd - Zeitschrift für Pädagogik
Zeitschrift für Sozialreform