Lisa Mauritz

PhD research project

submitted: " 'It was the start of opening up the world for me.' Key competences for sustainable development through virtual exchange – a follow-up study with students learning German in Cameroon and Kenya", Bielefeld University, Department of German as a Foreign Language, Supervisor: Prof. Dr Claudia Riemer.

Professional Experience

• Since October 2020: Academic Co-Worker in the Department of German as a Foreign and Second Language, Bielefeld University
• October 2019 – June 2021: Academic co-worker at the Centre of Excellence for Writing, University of Paderborn
• October 2016 – August 2019: DAAD Lecturer, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
• September 2015 – August 2016: DAAD Language Assistant, Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroon

Education

• April 2013 – October 2015: Master’s degree: German as a Foreign Language and German Studies, Bielefeld University
• October 2009 – April 2013: Bachelor’s degree: Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism, University of Hildesheim

Further Education and Training

• September 2019: Summer School in Higher Education Research, University of Paderborn
• July 2018: Organisation of the training course ‘Lehren und Lernen [Centre for teaching and learning] German Studies and German as a Foreign Language in the East African Higher Education Context’, Kenyatta University, Nairobi
  • Contribution: Workshop ‘Creative Writing in German as a Foreign Language’
• March 2018: Training course ‘Dhoch3 Training for German Studies Lecturers at Universities in East and Central Africa’ at Makarere University, Kampala
  • Contribution: Workshop ‘Writing Didactics’, member of the organising team
• August 2017: Yoga teacher training, Netala, India
• July 2017: Training course ‘Theatre work with students’ at the DAAD, Bonn
• September 2016: Safety & Security Training, GIZ, Bad Honnef
• May 2015: Qualification in Systemic Counselling, Bielefeld University
• April 2014 – September 2014: Writing consultancy and trainer training at PunktUm, the German language centre at Bielefeld University

Lectures & Workshops

• 14–16 March 2024: “Writing Skills in German as a Foreign Language (DaF) Teaching” workshop for PASCH teachers from Serbia, Bielefeld University
• August 2022: “The potential of social media for sustainable learning in the context of teaching German as a foreign language” – online lecture at the International Symposium of German Teachers, Vienna, Austria
• November 2021: “On the Potential of Online Exchange Projects in Digital Teaching: The Case of a Collaborative Writing Project between Students from Nairobi and Bielefeld” – Presentation with Christiane Korsten and Marcella Chebet, BI.teach at Bielefeld University
• November 2021: “The (online) group discussion as a data collection method for investigating interaction between Cameroonian and Kenyan learners of German in the context of online exchange projects” Presentation at the online symposium “Methodological Approaches to Interaction Research in German as a Foreign Language” organised by the Universities of Marburg, Kassel and Reitaku
• December 2020: “‘Habari mes amis, welcome!’ Opportunities and challenges of a DAAD language assistantship and a DAAD lectorship” Presentation with Sina Spiekermeier, lecture series on German as a Foreign Language (DaF)/German as a Second Language (DaZ) and German Studies at Bielefeld University.
• April 2019: “On the Establishment of Writing Advice Services at Cameroonian Universities – An Empirical Study from the Perspective of Student Writing Advisers” Lecture at the 4th Joint Symposium of the SAGV & GAS Association “Waiting Rooms – African German Studies and the Precariat”, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein
• July/August 2017: “‘We’re all the same, aren’t we?’ Theatre as a medium for Cameroonian German Studies students to engage with Cameroonian-German history” – presentation at the International Symposium of German Teachers, Fribourg, Switzerland
• June 2017: “Curricula of Kenyan German as a Foreign Language (DaF) and German Studies programmes and students’ future prospects – An empirical approach” – presentation at the GOZA symposium “African German Studies in Turbulent Times: Intercultural Approaches in East African German Studies” in Nairobi + member of the organising team
• May 2017: ‘On the role of feedback for students’ written work in German as a foreign language’, workshop at the DAAD conference ‘alMena – German Studies and German as a Foreign Language in the MENA region’ + meeting of lecturers in Cairo
• September 2015: “Language in Texts – (Not) a Problem? Oral Text Feedback for Students”, workshop with the PunktUm and Scriptum teams from Bielefeld University at the 8th Peer Tutoring Conference in Hamburg

University projects

• April 2022–September 2022: Led a digital video project entitled “Intercultural Learning in a Virtual Space” between students from 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)

• October 2020 – February 2021: Co-ordinated the digital exchange project “NAIROBIELEFELD – Cross-Border Writing” between students from Bielefeld University and Kenyatta University as part of a project seminar

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

• March 2019: Led a DAAD-funded writing academy featuring a German Day at Pwani University, Kenya
• July 2018: Planning and supervising a DAAD-funded study trip to Germany with Kenyan students
• October 2017 – June 2019: Led the documentary film project “Habari mes amis, willkommen” in cooperation with the DAAD Yaoundé, on the subject of German in Kenya and Cameroon. Kenyatta University, Nairobi; Université de Yaoundé I
• Oct 2017: Further training for the writing advice team at the Université de Yaoundé I
  • Topic: Designing workshops: intercultural communication and giving presentations
• Jan 2016 – Aug 2016: Training a writing advisory team at the Université de Yaoundé I
  • Topics: academic writing/systemic counselling
• January 2016 – August 2016: Leading a theatre project on the theme of colonialism: ‘We’re all the same, aren’t we?’, Université de Yaoundé I