Susan Seeber is a German business educator who has been researching and teaching at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since 2010. She specialises in quantitative vocational training research, particularly in the areas of monitoring vocational training, transitions into training and the associated social inequalities, as well as skills diagnostics and promotion in commercial and healthcare professions. Competences for sustainability in diagnostics and support are also a central point of reference. Susan Seeber graduated from high school with a vocational qualification as an industrial clerk. After studying business education at the Humboldt University in Berlin, she completed her doctorate there. During her doctorate, she worked as a lecturer in commercial training and further education. After completing her dissertation, she worked for three years in a management consultancy with a focus on labour market integration and the promotion of employees through further education and training. He completed his habilitation at the University of Hamburg. Before accepting the professorship at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, she worked at the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF) as a research assistant and coordinator of the National Education Report.
PROF. DR. SUSAN SEEBER
Academic Positions
Professor of Business Education and Human Resources Development at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
Habilitation at the University of Hamburg, Venia legendi for general educational science with special consideration of vocational and business education; title: ‘Analyses of the effectiveness of vocational education’/div>
Doctoral studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, doctorate (Dr paed.), title: ‘Development of professional competence through the use of activity-orientated tasks of a complex nature in the initial vocational training of industrial clerks’
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research assistant for the National Education Report at the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) in Frankfurt am Main/Berlin
Research associate and research assistant in the Department of Business Education at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Division Manager at the Society for Social Management Consultancy (gsub), Berlin
Research Focus
External Activities
EDITOR AND AD HOC REVIEWER
MEMBERSHIPS
Contact
Prof. Dr. Susan Seeber
Professur für Wirtschaftspädagogik und Personalentwicklung
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5
MZG (Blauer Turm), 6. Etage, Zimmer 6.131
37073 Göttingen
Tel.: +49 (0)551/39-24421
susan.seeber@wiwi.uni-goettingen.de
Since 2010
2016
Offer of a W3 professorship for Business Education at the Humboldt University of Berlin (declined)
2013
Offer of a W3 professorship for Business Education at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg (declined)
2010
Offer of a W3 professorship for Educational Science specialising in Vocational Education at the University of Paderborn and to the W3 professorship for Vocational Education at the Technical University of Dortmund (declined)
2008
1989-1992
1984-1989
Studied business education at the Humboldt University of Berlin; graduated with a degree in business education
2006-2010
2008-2010
Koordinatorin des Nationalen Bildungsberichts am Deutschen Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung (DIPF) in Frankfurt a. M./Berlin
1995-2006
1992-1995