Prof. Dr. Caroline Villiger Hugo
Leiterin Schwerpunktprogramm Familie - Bildung - Schule
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+41 31 309 22 03
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Focus of work
Head of the Research Programme "Family – Education – School"
Professional interests
- Cooperation between school and family
- Reading promotion in families and schools
- Extracurricular learning and learning at home
- Psychology of learning, learning strategies
- intervention research in education
Education
- 2011 Doctoral Degree at Georg-August-University Göttingen/Germany (Dr. disc. pol in Education)
- 2010–2011 Scholarship for doctoral students from the Swiss National Science Foundation
- 2008–2011 Research residence at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 2002 Licentiate in Pedagogy and Educational Psychology, University of Freiburg/CH
Professional experience
- 2019–present Head of the Research Programme "Family – Education – School"
- 2018–present Lecturer at the Institute for Lower Secondary Education of Bern University of Teacher Education (Introduction to Psychology of learning)
- 2017–2019 Grants Officer and Head of the Open Research Programme at the Institute for Research, Development and Evaluation, Bern University of Teacher Education
- 2011–2017 Lecturer in Education/Psychology and Research at Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2015–2017 Responsible Applicant for the SNF project LiT – Paired Reading
- 2005–2015 Research Associate at the Research Centre of Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2002–2004 Research Associate at the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Freiburg/CH
- 1999–2000 German Teacher for students with immigrant background at various kindergartens in the city of Freiburg
Commissions, mandates and memberships
- Member of the SNSF Interdisciplinary Panel (since 2024)
- Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Swiss Journal of Educational Research (2017-2023)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Swiss Journal of Educational Research (2015-2017)
- Member of the steering committee for the project “Reading promotion”, Department of Education and Culture of the Canton of Bern (2019-2021)
- Member of several associations: SGBF (Swiss Society of Research in Education), SGL (Swiss Society of Teacher Education), EARLI (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction), and INET International Network of Scholars (Research on School, Family, and Community Partnerships)
Research projects outside of Bern University of Teacher Education
- 2014–2017 SNSF project "Paired Reading – a Comparative Intervention Study on the Influence of Parent and Volunteer Tutors on Reading Performance of Third Graders with Reading Difficulties", Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2011–2013 Project "Cooperative Learning in Mathematics Education" (STAD), Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2007–2010 SNSF project "LiFuS – Reading in Families and Schools", Freiburg Teacher Training College/CH
- 2002–2004 SNSF project "On the Development of Political Cognition", University of Freiburg/CH
Publications