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Lydia Schäfer

Lydia Schäfer

address: Campus Golm
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam
Haus 14, Raum 5.05

Lydia Schäfer

Academic Career

  • Since 2025: Research Associate, University of Potsdam in the field of social psychology
  • 2024-2025: Research associate, University of Potsdam in the field of labor law and organizational psychology
  • 2023-2024: Research associate, German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa)
  • 2020-2023: M.Sc. Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen
  • 2017-2020: B.Sc. Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen

Research interests

  • Discrimination and marginalization of minorities
  • Media representation (of suspects)
  • Biases in perception
  • Prejudices
  • Gender differences in career development

Publications

  • Fattah-Weil, J., Roder, J., Schaefer, L., Fay, D., & Gronau, N. (2025). CreaDev - A Structured Framework for Embedding Creativity in Business Process Management [Conference Paper]. Business Process Management 2025: Industry Forum, Seville, Spain.
  • Schaefer, L., Siem, B., & Rohmann, A. (2023). Wie können Vorurteile gegenüber Geflüchteten und Migrant*innen abgebaut werden? Entertainment Education als Interventionsansatz. Magazin des Fachnetzwerks Sozialpsychologie zu Flucht und Integration [How can prejudices against refugees and migrants be reduced? Entertainment education as an intervention approach. Magazine of the Social Psychology Expert Network on Refugees and Integration]. http://www.fachnetzflucht.de/wie-koennen-vorurteile-gegenueber-gefluechteten-und-migrantinnen-abgebaut-werden-entertainment-education-als-interventionsansatz

    Conference Contributions

    • Schaefer, L., Fay, D., & Pingel, R. (2025, 10. September). The perception of gender-specific competences attributions and its impact on early-career researchers’ career outcomes [research talk]. 14. AOWI Fachgruppentagung, Lüneburg, Germany. 
    • Schaefer, L., van der Noll, J., & Rohmann, A. (2024, 16. September). To Name or not to Name? The Impact of Mentioning the Origin of Crime Suspects on Intergroup Attitudes [research talk]. 53rd DGPs Congress/15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, Austria.

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    Further education

    Psycho-oncologist (DKG certified) at the LAGO Brandenburg e.V.