Completed Research Projects
"Pilot Study on Participation in Physical Activity, Play and Sport among Children and Adolescents with Mental Illness (SPOPSY4Health)" (2022-2023; Sponsor: State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia)
Prevention of violence and promotion of pedagogical training quality in the German Gymnastics Federation (Deutscher Turnerbund) (2023; Funded by: Federal Institute of Sports Science)
Move4health - Science module, focus on all-day school (2023; Funded by: Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth / German Sports Youth)
Working group 4: Anchoring the joy of movement and sport at an early age (BMI AG4) (Funded by: Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community)
Learning and Movement - A School Development Project for the Individual Promotion of Self-Regulation in Secondary School StudentsI (2018-2022; Founded by: Unfallkasse Nordrhein-Westfalen, Link Website)
Pedagogical training quality in canoeing - creation of a video library with best practice examples (Founded by: DOSB Innovation Fund/ Deutscher Kanu-Verband)
Quality in all-day education (2021-2022; Founded by: Reinhard Mohn Foundation)
4th expert meeting of the Research Network for Children's and Youth Sports NRW: Movement and Literacy - Desire or Reality (2022; Funded by: own funds)
Young Engagement in Sport - Foundations for a New Start after Corona (Funded by: German Foundation for Engagement and Volunteering).
Exercise and physical activity during the Corona pandemic: influencing factors and effects on fitness, motor skills and coordination using the example of a primary school cohort (2021; Funded by: State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia)
2nd expert meeting of the Research Network for Children's and Youth Sports NRW: Body, Sport and Digitality - Movement Experience of Children and Adolescents (2020; Funded by: own funds)
Expert meeting & expert discussion "Generation Workout - Children and Youth Sports in Transition" (2021, Funded by: State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia)
Compilation of the documentation of the expert meeting "Kinder- und Jugendsportforschung NRW" (2019, Funded by: State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia)
1st expert meeting "Kinder- und Jugendsport NRW" (2018; Funded by: own funds)
Motives, attitudes, and expectations of student teachers in physical education - MEE (2013-2018; Funded by: own funds)
European Physical Education Observatory (EuPEO) (2018-2020; Founded by: EU (Erasmus+); to project homepage)
KuBiTanz - Cultural Education Research in Dance - Development of a domain-specific analysis model and domain-specific survey methods (2016-2019; Funded by: BMBF)
Curricular measures - heterogeneity as a continuous topic in the curriculum: Subproject 1 in the Quality Offensive Teacher Education at the WWU (2016-2019; Funded by: BMBF; to project homepage)
Video-based Teaching Modules as a Means of Theory-Practice Integration: Subproject 3 in the Quality Offensive Teacher Education at the WWU (2016-2019; Funded by: BMBF; to project homepage)
Wellbeing and healthy choices for older adults and their carers (WHOLE; Funded by: EU (Erasmus+))
Consulting project for the promotion of executive functions in school sports (2016-2018; Funded by: Unfallkasse NRW; zur Projekthomepage)
Project dance and movement theater (2015-2017; Funded by: Stiftung Mercator; to the project homepage)
Sport: Alliances! Movement - Education - Participation - Module: Advanced training in the module 'Sport.ART. - Children and youth sports show'. (2015-2017; Funded by: Deutsche Sportjugend/BMBF; to the project homepage)
Evaluation of sports offers for refugees - Scientific monitoring of the support program Orientation through Sports (2016-2017; Funded by: Deutsche Sportjugend)
Red card for the boys!? - Promoting boys through sport (2014-2016)
Third Children and Youth Sports Report (2014-2015).
Young commitment to the protection of children and young people in sport (2014-2015)
Healthy Active Living for Seniors (active_i) - (2013-2016)
Evaluation of qualification measures of the Landessportbund NRW - ÜL-C training (2011-2012)
Research project Development of educational networks in sports (2011)
Participation and generational relations in riding and driving clubs (2010)
Expertise: Boys in sports (2007-2008)
Children and youth work in sports clubs and their educational opportunities (2006-2008)