• Childhood Studies
• Child-Well-Being-Research
• Methods of qualitative social research, esp. interviews and group discussion
   

• Since September 2021 PhD student and project assistant in the international project CUWB (Children's Understandings of Well-Being, www.cuwb.org).
• Master thesis on "Family is ... the meaning of life, I say now". Second generation youths talk about family (2020)
• Studies of Educational Science (focus on Social Pedagogy) at the University of Zurich with the degrees of Master of Arts (2019-2021) and Bachelor of Arts with minors in Islamic Studies and Political Science (2012-2015).
• From 2016 to 2017 and 2019 to 2021 auxiliary and semester assistant at various departments of the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Zurich
• Practical experience in the field of youth work (2015-2017) and kindergarten (2017-2019)

Riepl, Andrea (im Druck). Children’s Subjective Well-Being aus einer ungleichheitstheoretischen Perspektive – der Capability Approach als Sensibilisierung für die Erforschung ungleicher Kindheiten. Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung.
 
Heite, Catrin, Ramos, Anne, C. & Riepl, Andrea (im Druck). Erforschung des Wohlbefindens aus der Sicht von Kindern: Einblicke in das Projekt WoKidS. In C. Heite & V. Magyar-Haas (Hrsg.), Kindheit(en) im Blick zeitgenössischer Forschungen, Reihe Zürcher Begegnungen. Springer VS.
 
Heite, Catrin, Ramos, Anne C. & Riepl, Andrea (2022). Wohlbefinden von Kindern in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz. Soziale Passagen, 14, 485–490. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uzh.ch/10.1007/s12592-022-00424-6

«There’s no place like home» social relations and
well-being of Ukrainian refugee children in Switzerland
Presentation at the Doctoral Colloquium of the Chair of Social Pedagogy at the University of Zurich
24. August 2023, online

Ethical reflexivity in participatory research with children
Presentation together with MA Luiza Vafina, on behalf of Prof. Dr. Catrin Heite (University of Zurich), Dr. Anne Ramos (University of Fribourg), BA Nina Bingham, BA Julia Steiner, BA Alexandra Taras (University of Zurich) and BA Yara Küng (University of Bern) at the Working Meeting of the international «Children’s Understandings of Well-Being» (CUWB) network
15.-17. June 2023, online

«… manchmal erzähle ich meine Sorgen auch ihm» warum Kinder Kuscheltiere für ihr Wohlbefinden brauchen
Guest Seminar at the University of Fribourg
1st May 2023, Freiburg/Fribourg, Switzerland

«One doesn’t have much time to see friends, but one should take time for it» Friends and time in the context of children’s well-being
Presentation together with Dr. Anne Ramos (University of Fribourg), and MA Luiza Vafina, on behalf of Prof. Dr. Catrin Heite (University of Zurich), at the Annual Conference of the Commission for Social Pedagogy in the DGfE [Subdivision Social Pedagogy/ Education and Social Work] «Social Pedagogy*s Time*s»
23.-25. March 2023, Rostock, Germany

Capability Approach und Child Well-Being – Verknüpfung/Verschmelzung zweier Konzepte der Kindheitsforschung zur theoretischen Sensibilisierung
Presentation at the Doctoral Colloquium of the Chair of Social Pedagogy at the University of Zurich
1st September 2022, online

Addressing generational order(ing)s in doing research with children: Ethical considerations on the field preparation of the project WoKidS
Presentation together with Dr. Anne Ramos, and on behalf of Prof. Dr. Catrin Heite (University of Zurich) at the workshop «Interviews with children generational barriers, solutions, potentials» by Prof. Dr. Doris Bühler-Niederberger at the University of Zurich
16th June 2022, Zurich, Switzerland

Kindheitsforschung und Generationenordnung. Eine ethische Reflexion über begrenzte und einschränkende Machtverhältnisse
Presentation together with Prof. Dr. Catrin Heite and Dr. Anne Ramos (University of Zurich) at the Biannual DGfE-Congress «Ent-grenz-ungen»
13.-16. March 2022, online

Children's well-being in Switzerland: Children's perspectives on the pandemic and planned research
Presentation together with Prof. Dr. Catrin Heite (University of Zurich), and Dr. Anne Ramos (University of Fribourg) at the Working Meeting of the international «Children’s Understandings of Well-Being» (CUWB) network
3.-5. June 2021, online