From 2002 until 2007 I worked as a social development practitioner for both German and Chinese governmental and non-governmental organizations. I reflected on my work experiences in my PhD on the promotion of participatory development in the PR China, which I wrote in parallel to my practical work. My thesis was later published as a book with the publishing house VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (see 'Förderung partizipativer Entwicklung in der VR China'). In Autumn 2007 I took up a post as departmental lecturer at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. Ever since I have taught both undergraduate and postgraduate students on issues ranging from social to political development in China’s reform era (1978).
