Prof. Dr. Rita Meyer

Vita

• Education and professional activity
  1987-1991	Work in office sales at the Hamburg tire branch of Continental AG and as a sales representative in marketing/export for the automotive original equipment of ContiTech Holding GmbH (support of the French market)
  1985-1987	Vocational Training as industrial clerk at Continental AG in Hanover

• Studies and scientific career
  since 09/2012	W3-Professorship of Vocational Education at the Institute of Vocational Education and Adult Education (IfBE) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Leibniz Universität Hanover
  04/2007-08/2012	W3-Professorship of Vocational and Company Continuing Education at the Department of Pedagogy of the University of Trier
  04/2006-03/2007	Visiting professor at the TU Berlin at the Institute of Vocational Education and Work Teaching for the field of vocational education
  2001-2007	Scientific assistant (C1) at the professorship for Vocational and Work Education at the Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg
  06/2005	Completion of the habilitation procedure Venia for the field of "Vocational and Business Education and Training"
  06/2000	Doctorate in vocational pedagogy to Dr. phil. Dissertation topic: "Qualification for modern professionalism - social organisation of work from skilled trades to managerial activities"
  1997-2001	Scientific staff at the Institute of Vocational Education at the University of Hannover
  1996-1997	Scientific staff at the Institute of General Educational Sciences and School Pedagogy in the field of Business Education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
  1994-1996	Studies of organizational sociology at the Université Lumière 2 in Lyon, France
  1991-1996	Studies of vocational and business education, sociology and philosophy at the University Hannover on a scholarship from the Hans-Böckler-Foundation

• Functions and committee work (selection)
  since 2014	Member of the advisory board of the Graduate Academy
  since 03/2014	Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Philosophy at Leibniz Universität Hanover
  since 10/2013	Member of the Board of the Institute of Vocational Education and Adult Education (IfBE)
  since 03/2013	Head of the Department of Vocational Education and Training at IfBE
  04/2011-09/2012	Member of the Senate of the University of Trier
  06/2010-09/2012	Member of the working group of the University Council of the University of Trier "Profiling as a provider of continuing education"
  02/2009	Founding member and management of the Institute of Interregional Professional Research and Further Education at the Faculty I of the University of Trier
  02/2008-09/2012	Member of the faculty council at the University of Trier
  2005-2006	Deputy senate member at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg
  2002-2004	Member of the Departmental Council for Education at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg
  2001-2005	Study advisor for the subject pedagogy at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg
  1997-2000	Medium-level representative on the council of the Institute of Vocational Education and Training in Hannover

• Memberships, advisory boards and expert opinions (selection)
  since 2019 Member of the University Council of Weserbergland University

  since 2014 Member of the "Expert group on permeability between vocational and academic education" of the Confederation of German Employers

  since 2013 Member of the Jobstarter-plus Monitoring Committee of the BMBF

  since 2012 Member of the scientific community. Advisory Board of the Institute of Technology and Education (ITB) in Bremen

  since 2007 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Social Partner Foundation Chemistry (CSSA)

  Member of the scientific advisory board of ver.di and IG Metall (since 2007)

  Member of the board of trustees of the Qualifizierungsförderwerk Chemie (QFC) in Halle (since 2002)

  Liaison Lecturer at the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, Selection Committee for the Promotion of Doctoral Studies, reviewer for applications for research funding (2004-2009), since 10/2013 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation

  Reviewer within the framework of selection interviews for the promotion of the gifted at the "Stiftung Begabtenförderungswerk berufliche Bildung" (BMBF; since 2008)

  Founding member of the Federal Working Group for Scientific Professions (BAG NAWU) (2006)

  DGFE Section Vocational Education and Adult Education

  Arbeitsgemeinschaft gewerblich-technische Wissenschaften und ihre Didaktiken (GTW) within the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Arbeitsforschung

• Awards
  Study and Teaching Excellence Competition of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate 2009 - Promotion of the project "Trier Cross Mentoring Programme: Theory Meets Practice"; prize money 50.000,- €