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Prof. Dr. Andrea Abraham

Profile

Prof. Dr. Andrea Abraham Dozentin

Contact

Links

  • Contact hours Monday
    Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday
    Friday morning
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    School of Social Work
    Abteilung Soziale Intervention
    Hallerstrasse 10
    3012 Bern
You can find more information on the German profile page.

Activities

  • Professor at Institute for Childhood, Youth and Family

  • Deputy head of Institute for Childhood, Youth and Family

  • Child and family well-being

  • Biographical and transgenerational impact of foster care and residential care

  • Experiences of violence in the immediate social environment

  • Domestic and international adoption

  • Burdened and marginalised forms of parenthood

  • Qualitative social research, ethnographic research, art-based research

Teaching

  • BSc of Social Work

  • Socialisation

  • Foster care

  • Violence

  • Scientific working techniques / qualitative research methods

Research

  • Child and family welfare

  • Qualitative research methods

  • Child and family well-being

  • Biographical and transgenerational impact of foster care and residential care

  • Experiences of violence in the immediate social environment

  • Domestic and international adoption

  • Burdened and marginalised forms of parenthood

  • Qualitative social research, ethnographic research, art-based research

CV

  • 2022- Deputy Head of Institute for Childhood, Youth and Family Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Social Work
  • 2019- Professor Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Social Work
  • 2017-2019 Research Coordinator and Head of Quality Management Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Social Work
  • 2016-2024 Lecturer Basel-Stadt Health Education Centre
  • 2012-2017 Head of Resarch Dialog Ethik – Interdisciplinary Institute for Ethics in Healthcare
  • 2010-2014 Lecturer Bern Health Education Centre
  • 2008-2012 PhD student Bern University, Institute of Social Anthropology
  • 2005-2008 Researcher Bern University, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
  • 2005-2006 Teacher College Köniz-Lerbermatt
  • 2019-2021 Certificate in University Teaching Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2019-2020 CAS Child Protection Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2018 CAS EFQM Model Integration & Assessment Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
  • 2008-2012 PhD in Social Anthropology Bern University, Institute of Social Anthropology
  • 1999-2005 BSc and MSc in Social Anthropology Bern University, Institute of Social Anthropology
  • Sabbatical focusing on art-based research (stays in India, Croatia and Switzerland) (August–December 2025)
  • Visiting scholar at TATA Institute of Social Sciences, School of Social Work, Mumbai/India (January-April 2023)
  • Co-director of the doctoral colloquium at Bern University School of Social Work (2017–2024)
  • Reviewer for Sociologus, socialnet, GISo, Swiss Journal of Social Work
  • Associate researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern
  • Board member Social Projects Association Bern
  • Participation in the ATD Fourth World project ‘Poverty – Identity – Society’ (2020–2023)
  • Co-head of training, Multireligious Support Association
  • Volunteering in the Jewish community of Bern
  • Scientific Advisor, Dialog Ethik – Interdisciplinary Institute for Ethics in Healthcare (2017–2024)
  • President Medical Anthropology Switzerland MAS (2010-2014)

Projects

Publications

Memberships

  • Expert at "Savoir public"

  • Member of the board of the Social Projects Association

  • Interest group for quality in child protection

  • Internationale Gesellschaft für erzieherische Hilfen IGfH

  • International Foster Care Research Network

  • Networker at national initiative La Purla

  • Multireligious Support Association

  • Swiss Association of Social Anthropology

  • Swiss Association of the Science of Religion

Supervised theses

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English - Professional working proficiency
  • French - Limited working proficiency
  • Switzerland
  • India