Lydia Schäfer

Lydia Schäfer
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.