Prof. Dr. Olivier Steiner

    Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

    • Since 2013: Professorship “Life situations and lifestyles of recipients of child and youth welfare” at the FHNW School of Social Work
    • 2011: PhD in Sociology at the University of Basel
    • 2001 – 2013: Research assistant at the FHNW School of Social Work
    • 1997 – 2000: Socio-pedagogical employee in Opalinus, employment centre and children’s home in Gelterkinden
    • 1997: Socio-pedagogical employee in Leiern, school and children’s home in Gelterkinden
    • 1996: Internships at the Bürgerliches Waisenhaus (orphanage), Basel-Stadt

    Main focus

    Research, development and services

    • Children and adolescents: Life situations and lifestyles of children and adolescents in modern societies
    • Media education: media competence, media education and media pedagogy
    • Digital media and social work: Mediatisation and technologisation of social work
    • Violence: social structures of violence, youth violence, right-wing extremism, violence prevention
    • Qualitative and quantitative social research and evaluation
    • Social theories, sociological theories, socialisation theories

    Main focus in teaching

    • Digital media and social work
    • Structures of violence and youth violence
    • Life situations and lifestyles of children and adolescents
    • Social theory, critical theory

    Further information

    • Member of Network Media Literacy Switzerland, Federal Social Insurance Office
    • Member of the feel-ok.ch expert group, ETH Zurich
    • Patronage committee of the Association “digital”
    • Expert for Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
    • Expert for British Journal of Social Work, European Journal of Social Work, Journal of Technology in Human Services

    Publications and projects