Experience

FiBS Forschungsinstitut für Bildungs- und Sozialökonomie

• Germany
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Projektleitung/Senior researcher

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  https://www.fibs.eu/fibs-profil/mitarbeiterinnen/mitarbeiter-detail/dr-sarah-fichtner/ https://www.fibs.eu/fibs-profil/mitarbeiterinnen/mitarbeiter-detail/dr-sarah-fichtner/



Encounter blog and magazine

• Berlin

• Editorial Team & Begegnungshelferin

  • Oct 2015 - Present

  Encounter is a collaborative multilingual media project by Engaged Anthropology – a gradually expanding network of social anthropologists and students of Berlin universities, as well as artists, activists and journalists from various countries. http://encounter-blog.com/en/ Encounter is a collaborative multilingual media project by Engaged Anthropology – a gradually expanding network of social anthropologists and students of Berlin universities, as well as artists, activists and journalists from various countries. http://encounter-blog.com/en/



Medienwerkstatt Encounters

• Berlin Area, Germany

• Project Coordinator

  • Jun 2019 - Sep 2020

  http://www.encounter-blog.com/en/ http://www.encounter-blog.com/en/



Self-employed

• Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Independent Scholar

  • 2015 - Jun 2020



Institut für Innovation und Beratung an der Evangelischen Hochschule Berlin (INIB)

• Research

• Researcher and consultant

  • Apr 2019 - Apr 2020

  Projects: -Explorative Studie zur Implementation des ChangeWriters-Ansatzes an Schulstandorten -„Durch gelingenden Beziehungsaufbau Schule verändern?“ -„WAY –Vom Willkommen zum Ankommen. Yallah!“ see: https://www.inib-berlin.de/index.php/dr-sarah-fichtner Projects: -Explorative Studie zur Implementation des ChangeWriters-Ansatzes an Schulstandorten -„Durch gelingenden Beziehungsaufbau Schule verändern?“ -„WAY –Vom Willkommen zum Ankommen. Yallah!“ see: https://www.inib-berlin.de/index.php/dr-sarah-fichtner



Institut fuer Innovation und Beratung INIB, EHB und Institut fuer den Situationsansatz ISTA

• Berlin Area, Germany

• Researcher in the project Everyday life of pre-school children in asylum seekers'​ homes in Berlin

  • Mar 2016 - Oct 2017

  The research project Everyday Life for Refugee Children up to Age 6 in Collective and Emergency Accommodation Centres is based at INIB e.V., an affiliated institute of the Berlin Protestant University of Applied sciences, and is managed in cooperation with ISTA/Fachstelle Kinderwelten, Berlin. Through the application of participatory qualitative research methods, the project investigates the views of refugee children up to age 6, their parents and staff at collective and emergency accommodation centres, on how daily life is organized and experienced by young children. The aim of the project is to generate empirically based knowledge on the everyday life experiences of young refugee children living in different types of accommodation centres. https://inib-berlin.de/index.php/praxisforschung-2/praxisforschung/2-uncategorised/68-alltagserleben-von-gefluechteten-kindern-bis-6-jahren-in-gemeinschafts-und-notunterkuenften-2



Robert Bosch Academy

• Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Research Fellow

  • Jun 2016 - Jan 2017

  Research team: Education in Sub Saharan Africa Research team: Education in Sub Saharan Africa



Affiliated researcher at Freie Universitaet Berlin and Les Afriques dans le Monde, Bordeaux

• Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Social Anthropologist specialising in education in Africa. DAAD scholarship. Researcher & Consultant

  • 2015 - 2015

  Main research area: Benin Main research fields: Travelling education reforms such as competency-based education, school ethnography/ the everyday functioning of rural primary schools in Benin, NGOs in education Main research area: Benin Main research fields: Travelling education reforms such as competency-based education, school ethnography/ the everyday functioning of rural primary schools in Benin, NGOs in education



Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM), Institute of Political Studies, University of Bordeaux

• Bordeaux und Umgebung, Frankreich

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • 2012 - 2015

  Personal website at Les Afriques dans le Monde: http://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/fr/users/sarah-fichtner Coordinator with Hélène Charton of the French-German research program „Modèles, pratiques et cultures scolaires en Afrique de l’Ouest francophone“ (Models, practices and cultures of school institutions in West Africa) financed by the French and German national research agencies (ANR and DFG). French website of the program: http://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/mopracs/ English summary of the program: http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/1070.php 12 months of field research in north Benin on the translation, appropriation and implementation of international education reforms (competency-based approaches) and the everyday functioning of rural primary schools. Realisation of a short documentary film on the everyday school management in rural Benin for the project Web Edu TV: http://www.web-edu.tv/spip.php?article114 Organisation of two international conferences in Bordeaux (2015) and Cotonou (2015).



Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

• Lecturer

  • 2010 - 2012

  Teaching bachelor and master courses on "Education in the Global South", "Anthropology and Development", "Brokers, translators, entrepreneurs – concepts of mediating actors", "Anthropology of organizations"Organizing scientific conferences in Bayreuth (2012) and Mainz (2012).Guest lectures at the Ecole supérieure du professorat et de l'éducation in Bordeaux and at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Isik University Istanbul.

• Administrative and financial coordination of the research project “States at Work"

  • 2007 - 2012

  Administrative and financial coordination of the research project “States at Work. Public Services and Civil Servants in West Africa: Education and Justice in Benin, Ghana, Mali and Niger" headed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Bierschenk (Mainz) and Mahaman Tidjani Alou (Niger).Responsibilities: • Management of the project budget (ca. € 600.000) funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, which included complex mediation between project partners in four African countries and the finance departments of both the University of Mainz and the Volkswagen Foundation,• Internal reporting in cooperation with the project directors (writing interim reports and the final project report, preparing poster and other presentations for meetings organised by the Volkswagen Foundation in Bamako, Bayreuth and Bonn),• External reporting, including: presenting the project on the department’s home page, writing annual reports, and exhibiting poster and photos during the Mainz University “Science Days” and other University organized events,• Planning and organising project meetings and research activities of the project members, including: booking flights, arranging insurance and visa formalities, and writing invitation letters for guests of the department,• Supporting invited guest of the department by organising accommodation and facilities, workplaces, and providing general guidance.