Carmen Sarah Lienen Curriculum Vitae January 2020

Gutenbergstraße 18 [email protected] 35037 Marburg office: +49 6421 28-23636 Germany linkedin: carmen-lienen-35037

EDUCATION

2021 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social Psychology Philipps-University of Marburg (Germany) Department of Social Psychology Supervisor: Professor Christopher J. Cohrs Working title: National narratives and social representations of history in times of political change

ISPP Summer Academy in Political Psychology, Lisbon, 2019

2017 M.Sc. of Social and Cultural Psychology -Distinction London School of Economics & Political Science (UK) Department of Social Psychology

2016 B.Sc. Psychology University of Wurzburg (Germany) Department of Psychology

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2017-2020 Research Fellow, Philipps-University of Marburg Seminar teacher, Academic Supervisor (Bachelor and Master’s theses), Study and Examination Organization

RESEARCH

Research Profile

National Narratives Interviews Social Representations of History Focus Groups Social Identity Theory Experiments Migration and Diaspora Studies Discourse Analysis Quantitative Text Analysis

Research Projects Social Representations of History and National Identity in Times of Social and Political Change, PhD project Paper 1: Redefining the Meaning of Negative History in Times of Political Change: 1

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A Social Creativity Approach. Paper 2: Social Identity Management Strategies & History Negotiation. Paper 3: Dynamic Social Representations in the light of Political Change.

The Wellbeing of First- and Second-Generation South-Sudanese Migrants in Canada: Stories of Violence and Resilience International collaboration between Dr. Simon Coulombe (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada), Dr. Emily LeRoux-Rutledge (University of Bristol, UK) and Carmen Lienen (Marburg University, Germany) Funding: Wilfrid Laurier University Internal Grant of CAD 14,512

PUBLICATIONS

Manuscripts in Preparation Lienen, C. & LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (in preparation). Negotiating Refugee Identity in the face of Negative Social Representations: Lessons for Germany’s Integration Policy during the European Migration ‘Crisis’. To be submitted to the Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies. Lienen, C. & Cohrs, J.C. (in preparation). Redefining the meaning of negative history in times of political change: A social creativity approach. To be submitted to Political Psychology. LeRoux-Rutledge, E., Coulombe, S., & Lienen, C. (in preparation). How ongoing violence in origin countries affects the identity and wellbeing of first- and second-generation diaspora. To be submitted to the Journal of Refugee Studies.

Web-Based Publications Pauls, I., Lienen, C., Knab, N., Harnack, K., & Cohrs, J.C. (2018). Mit Psychologie Frieden Fördern? Beiträge aus der psychologischen Forschung zur Reduktion von destruktiven Konflikten und Friedensförderung. The Inquisitive Mind, 4.

AWARDS & HONORS

2018 Avicenna-Studienwerk, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, €1500 2018 Travel Grant, Marburg Research Academy (MARA), €200 2016 PROMOS- Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), €750

INVITED TALKS & WORKSHOPS

2019 Social Representations Theory & Workshop on Corpus-based Text Analysis Carl-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations

2019 Qualitative Interviews and Narrative Analysis. Workshop at Wilfrid Laurier University (Colloquium), Waterloo, Canada.

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2019 Social Representations of History in Times of Political Change. Paper presented at Wilfrid Laurier University (Colloquium), Waterloo, Canada. 2019 Germany’s National Narrative during the Crisis. Paper presented at the London School of Economics and Political Science (PhD Symposium), London, UK. 2019 Social Representations of History and Nationhood in Times of Political Change. Paper presented at Centre for Conflict Studies (CCS) at Marburg University (Colloquium), Marburg, Germany.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Papers presented

Lienen, C. & Cohrs, J.C. (2019, July). Social representations of history and nationhood in times of political change. In M. Bilewicz (Chair), Social Representations and history: Implications for present-day intergroup relations. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal.

Cohrs, J.C., Eckerle, F., Rothers, A., & Lienen, C. (2019, July). Socio-political correlates of collective identity patterns in contemporary Germany. Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal.

Lienen, C. & LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2018, September). Re-’imaging’ the refugee crisis: Refugees’ social representations of Germany and their place in it. In J.H. Hellmann (Chair), Refugee integration in Germany: Integrating contributions from various psychological subdisciplines on refugees’ and residents’ perspectives. Symposium conducted at the German Psychology Foundation Congress (DGPs), Frankfurt, Germany.

Lienen, C. & LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2018, May). Re-’imaging’ the refugee crisis: Refugees’ social representations of Germany and their place in it. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK.

Lienen, C. & LeRoux-Rutledge, E. (2017, September). Re-‘imagining’ the refugee crisis: Refugees’ social representation of Germany – A photo voice project. Paper presented at the Community Psychology Festival, University of the West of England, UK.

Lienen, C. (2016, November). A wave is flooding Europe – when refugees become a natural disaster. Abstract presented at the LSE Research Festival, London, UK.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Social Psychology of Ideology & Conflict (2019/2020)  Created course outline, coordinated and delivered seminars  Set and marked final exams (MC & open format)

Social Psychology and Politics (2017/2018, 2018/2019)  Created course outline, coordinated and delivered seminars  Set and marked final exams (MC & open format)  Average student ranking: 4,7/5 (5= very satisfied with the course)

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Psychology of Peace and Conflict: Qualitative Research Methods (2019)

Tutorial (International Undergraduate Study Program, University of Marburg) Social Psychology (2017/18, 2018/2019, 2019/2020) Aggression & Violence (2018)

ADVISING

Marburg University, Masters and Undergraduate Advisees

Rita Feilen, Social Representations of History and Political Charters (B.Sc.) Janis Loewe, The multimedia rhetoric of memory culture (B.Sc.) Julia Schuchmann, Social representations as group threat (B.Sc.) Hannah-Kathrin Söffing, #This is not consent- Neoliberalism, rape myths & sexism (B.Sc.) Shari Gerbode, Collective Action in light of police violence (B.Sc.) Christina Goettelmann, Privileges and political activism (M.Sc.) Laura Restrepo, Social representations of Integration in Germany (M.Sc.) Nadia Yasmine Bouchemel, Sexist Reasoning (M.Sc.) Bea Kiepe, Experiences of violence in psychological nursing professions (M.Sc.)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

12/2017- 8/2018 Research Assistant, University of Surrey (UK)  Wrote a full-review ethics application, conducted literature research and interviews with 12 diaspora members, transcribed and analyzed qualitative research data

09- 12/2015 Research internship at University of Toronto (Canada) Department of Social Psychology  Adult Development Lab, supervised by Prof. Dr. Alison Chasteen  Developed and conducted primary research on three different studies on stereotypes and prejudices  Developed and presented a study to the lab committee

02- 03/2015 Research internship at the Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim  Project ‘Sensory- affective interaction and body perception in patients with borderline personality disorder’, funded by the German Research Foundation  Supervised and assisted in fMRI and sensory experiments, entered and analyzed data in SPSS and attended DFG- conference as part of the research team 10/2014- 1/2015 Research Assistant at the University of Wurzburg, Cognitive Psychology  Explained procedures, obtained consent, debriefed and managed participants  Ensured ethical and successful completion of questionnaires  Assisted in the statistical analysis of a replication study

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SERVICE TO PROFESSION 2020 Conference Organizing Committee, Peace Psychology Association

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 2017-present Participatory Action Research with refugees in Germany

MEDIA COVERAGE International https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/not-just-name-sheet-paper National (German) https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/nettetal/so-sehen-fluechtlinge-ihr-leben-in-deutschland_aid- 17914329 https://www.wz.de/nrw/kreis-viersen/studentin-forscht-zu-fluechtlingen_aid-26624181 https://www.meine-woche.de/staedte/viersen/meine-heimat/nettetal/hoffnungen-auf- fotos_aid-36312779

RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

2019 Course, Introduction to statistical analyses in R, Marburg University 2019 Workshop (2-days), Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling, Giessen University 2018 Pre-conference workshop, Narrative Analysis, Twente University 2018 Workshop, Scientific Presentations, Marburg University Research Academy (MARA)

EXTRACURRICULAR EXPERIENCE & VOLUNTARY WORK

04/- 09/2016 Voluntary Work ‘Flüchtlinge Willkommen’ (Refugees Welcome) Organizing private accommodations for refugees in the city of Wurzburg 02/- 12/2017 1989 Generation Initiative, ‘Tackling Populism: Hope over Fear’ 01/2017- 10/2018 Bridging-Gaps e.V., Content Team (www.bridges-southafrica.org)  Developed a workshop on identity  Training on critical whiteness, inequalities and racism

LANGUAGES

German Native speaker English Fluent reading, writing, speaking French Basic reading, speaking Japanese Basic speaking

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP)

REFERENCES

Christopher J. Cohrs Professor FB Psychologie, Philipps-University Marburg Gutenbergstr. 18, 35032 Marburg, Germany Email: [email protected] Phone: +49-6421-28-26632

Emily LeRoux-Rutledge Lecturer Department of Social Psychology, University of the West of England Email: [email protected]

Alison Chasteen Professor Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Sidney Smith Hall, Room 4020, 4th floor, 100 St. George Street Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3 Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 (416) 978‐5201