Rebekka Ehret

Education and training

2000-2001 Lecturer programme on university didactics at the University of Basel

1999 Further education at the University of Basel: personnel management

1998 Doctorate at the University of Basel, majoring in ethnology, Minor English Studies

1995 Further education at the University of Basel: Communication

1994 Further education at the University of Basel: Language, Speaking, Speech

Practical Activity

Since 2008 Lecturer and project manager at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Social Work and lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, University of Basel;

2004 - 2008 Head of the Language Department and the Training Programme for Court Interpreters at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, West Africa and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland;

1992 - 2004 Lecturer and project leader at the Ethnological Seminar of the University of Basel and lecturer at the Europainstitut and at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland;

Key Competencies

• Migration and Integration
• Intercultural Communication
• Diversity Management
• Transcultural Conflict Resolution

Research Projects

• Integration of Portuguese people in tourism regions
• Use of interpreters in public authorities
• Strengthening and Positioning of the Study Field Socio-Cultural Animation - Subproject 2: Application-oriented Basic Research
• Language development Horw
• Church and Integration
• Citoyenneté - active citizenship: part-having instead of being divided

Publications

• Ehret, Rebekka & Köz Brown, Güvengül (2016). Equal and equal likes to join. Mix: Magazine for diversity, (2), 8-9.
• Ehret, Rebecca (2016). Migration, culture and psyche. Pro Mente Sana aktuell: Information from the psychiatric scene in Switzerland / Ed.: Swiss Foundation Pro Mente Sana, (3), 18.
• Ehret, Rebekka (2016). The situation of young refugees in Switzerland. Info animation, 39, 9-11.

• Honor, Rebecca (2014). Sharing instead of being divided. How four Lucerne municipalities use the potential of the migrant population. Social news, 2014(5), 32-33.

Chapter/legal commentary/lexicon article

• Ehret, Rebecca (2015). Simple and complicated diversity. In Verein Surprise (ed.), Location Strasse: People in Need take the reins (pp. 88-89). Basel: Christoph Merian Publishers.
• Ehret, Rebekka (2014). Intercultural communication as communication of recognition. In Annika Bangerter; Béatrice Speiser (ed.), The Crescenda Model: Migrant Women as Entrepreneurs (pp. 82-89). Zurich: rüffer & rup Non-fiction Publishers.