Lisa Mauritz

Doctoral Project

current: Sustainable learning through online encounter projects - an empirical study with learners of German in Cameroon and Kenya (working title), Bielefeld University, subject German as a second language, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Riemer.

Professional appointments

• since 09.2022: Maternity leave & parental leave.
• since 10.2020: research assistant in the subject German as a Foreign and Second Language, Bielefeld University.
• 12.2019 - 07.2020: parental leave
• 10.2019 - 06.2021: Research assistant at the Competence Center for Writing, University of Paderborn
• 10.2016 - 08.2019: DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service] Lecturer, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
• 09.2015 - 08.2016: DAAD Language Assistant, Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroon

Studies

• 04.2013 - 10.2015: Master: German as a second language and German Studies,Bielefeld University.
• 10.2009 - 04.2013: Bachelor: Creative writing and cultural journalism,University of Hildesheim

Further and continuing education

• 09.2019: Summer School Higher Education Research, University of Paderborn.
• 07.2018: organization of advanced training "Lehren und Lernen von Germanistik und DaF im ostafrikanischen Hochschulkontext", Kenyatta University, Nairobi
  • Contribution: workshop "Creative Writing in DaF"
• 03.2018: advanced training "Dhoch3 advanced training for teachers of German studies in universities in East and Central Africa" at Makarere University, Kampala.
  • Contribution: workshop "Didactics of Writing", member of the organizing team.
• 08.2017: Yoga teacher training, Netala, India
• 07.2017: Advanced training "Theatre work with students" at DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service], Bonn.
• 09.2016: Safety & Security Training, GIZ, Bad Honnef, Germany
• 05.2015: Qualification in Systemic Counselling, Bielefeld University, Germany
• 04.2014 - 09.2014: Training in Writing Consultancy and Multiplier at PunktUm,German Language Centre at Bielefeld University

Presentations & Workshops

• 08.2022: "On the potential of social media for sustainable learning in the DaF context" Online presentation at the International Symposium of German Teachers*, Vienna, Austria.
• 11.2021: "On the potential of online encounter projects in digital teaching using the example of a collaborative writing project between students from Nairobi and Bielefeld" presentation with Christiane Korsten and Marcella Chebet, BI.teach at Bielefeld University
• 11. 2021: "The (online) group discussion as a data collection method to investigate the interaction between Cameroonian and Kenyan learners of German in the context of online encounter projects" Presentation at the online symposia "Methodische Zugänge zur Interaktionsforschung in DaFZ" of the Universities of Marburg, Kassel and Reitaku.
• 12.2020: "'Habari mes amis, welcome!' Chances and Challenges of a DAAD Language Assistance and a DAAD Lectorate" Presentation with Sina Spiekermeier, Lecture Series DaF/DaZ and German Studies at Bielefeld University.
• 04.2019: "Zur Etablierung von Schreibberatung an kamerunischen Universitäten- eine empirische Untersuchung aus der Perspektive studentischer Schreibberater*innen" Presentation at the 4th Joint Symposium of the SAGV & GAS Association "Warteräume - Afrikanische Germanistik und Prekariat", University of the Free State, Bloemfontein.
• 07/08/2017: "'We're all the same, aren't we?' Theater as a Medium for an Approach of Cameroonian German Studies Students to Cameroonian-German History" Presentation at the International Symposium of German Teachers*, Fribourg, Switzerland.
• 06.2017: "Curricula of Kenyan DaF and German Studies Courses and Students' Future Perspectives - An Empirical Approach" Presentation at the GOZA symposia "African German Studies in Turbulent Times: Intercultural Approaches to East African German Studies" in Nairobi + member of the organizing team.
• 05.2017: "On the role of feedback for student text products in German as a foreign language", workshop at the DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service] conference "alMena - Germanistik und DaF in der MENARegion" + lecturers' meeting in Cairo.
• 09.2015: "Language in texts - (k)a problem? Oral text feedback for students" workshop in the PunktUm and Scriptum team of Bielefeld University at the 8th Peer-tutoring-Conference in Hamburg.

University Projects

• 04.2022-09.2022 Leading a digital video project "Intercultural learning in virtual space" between students of Bielefeld University and Kenyatta University as part of a project seminar.

(https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/linguistik-literaturwissenschaft/studium-lehre/studienfaecher/daf-daz/lehrprojekte-und-material/interkulturelles-lernen/index.xml)

• 10.2020 - 02.2021 Management of the digital encounter project "NAIROBIELEFELD - Cross-border writing" between students of Bielefeld University and Kenyatta University in the context of a project seminar

(https://grenzueberschreitendesschreiben.wordpress.com/)

• 03.2019: Leading a DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service] funded writing academy with German Day at Pwani University, Kenya.
• 07.2018: planning and facilitating a DAAD [German Academic Exchange Service] funded study tour with Kenyan students to Germany.
• 10.2017 - 06.2019: Directing the documentary film project "Habari mes amis, welcome" in cooperation with DAAD Yaoundé, about German in Kenya and Cameroon. Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Université de Yaoundé I
• 10.2017: Further training of the writing consulting team at the Université de Yaoundé I.
  • Topic: Designing Workshops: Intercultural communication and giving presentations.
• 01.2016 - 08.2016: Advanced training of a writing consulting team at the Université de Yaoundé I
  • Topics: scientific work/ systemic consulting.
• 01.2016 - 08.2016: Directing a theater project on colonialism: "We are all the same, aren't we?", Université de Yaoundé I