Veronika Schaeffler Programme Coordinator INASP, 2/3 Cambridge Terrace, Oxford, OX1 1RR Tel: +44 (0)1865 249909 / Nationality: German / Email: [email protected]

Biography Veronika is one of INASP’s Programme Coordinators. She assists with the development, delivery and evaluation of workshops, online courses and other capacity building approaches in the Global South. Veronika worked as research assistant and project manager in Germany in the field of medical informatics at the German GSF Research Centre for Environment and Health (now: Helmholtz Zentrum Munich). She has also broad experience in charity work. Prior to joining INASP in 2015, she worked with the international youth development charity Lattitude Global Volunteering and was involved in the UK government-funded International Citizen Service Programme (ICS). Languages: German (mother tongue), English (excellent) Main country experience: Germany, , , Sierra Leone, South , Sri Lanka

Key skills and expertise • Project management • Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning • Event management (MEL) • Workshop facilitation • Online and blended learning • Content development approaches

Specialist thematic areas • Capacity building approaches in the • Critical thinking Global South • Youth development • Medical informatics • Knowledge representation • Nutritional sciences

Posts held Apr 2018 – Present Programme Coordinator, INASP (Oxford, UK) Apr 2017 – Mar 2018 Programme Officer, Research Access and Higher Education, INASP (Oxford, UK) Feb 2015 – Mar 2017 Programme Assistant, Research Access and Availability, INASP (Oxford, UK) Oct 2013 – Feb 2015 Programme Coordinator, International Citizen Service (ICS), Lattitude Global Volunteering (Reading, UK) Sep 2011 – Oct 2013 UK Programme Manager, Lattitude Global Volunteering (Reading, UK) Aug 2010 – Sep 2011 Volunteer Coordinator, Lattitude Global Volunteering (Reading, UK) Mar 2010 – Aug 2010 Operations Executive, Swets Information Services (Abingdon, UK) May 2005 – Aug 2007 Voluntary Consultant, Financial Wellness Project, BMW (Pretoria, ) May 2004 – Mar 2005 Manager of Head Office, Restless Legs Syndrome Patient Organisation (Munich, Germany) Nov 1998 – June 2003 Project Manager, ADAKOS advanced knowledge solutions GmbH (Unterschleissheim, Germany)

Aug 1992 – July 1997 Research Assistant, GSF Research Centre for Environment and Health (Neuherberg, Germany)

Qualifications

2010 BA Language and Literature with specialisation in Language Learning in a Multicultural Society, University of South Africa (UNISA) 1994 Doctoral degree in Nutritional Sciences, Family and Consumer Sciences, Technical University Munich, Germany

Project experience Apr 2019 – Present Global Platforms for Equitable Knowledge Ecosystems (GPEKE), global with focused work in , and Cambodia. Programme Coordinator. Funded by Sida.

May 2018 – Present Assuring Quality Higher Education in Sierra Leone (AQHEd-SL), Sierra Leone. Programme Coordinator. Funded by DFID.

Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 Strong and Equitable Research and Knowledge Systems in the Global South (SERKS), Uganda, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh. Programme Coordinator. Funded by Sida.

Feb 2015 – Mar 2018 Strengthening Research and Knowledge Systems (SRKS), Africa, Asia and Latin America. Programme Officer in the Research Access and Higher Education Team. Funded by DFID and SIDA. 2013 – 2014 International Citizen Service (ICS), Africa. Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator for the ICS partner Lattitude Global Volunteering. Funded by DFID. 2005 – 2007 Financial wellness programme, public-private partnership of BMW South Africa and the German Development Corporation GTZ, South Africa. Convener and Consultant during the project design phase. 1998 – 1999 TEDI – Telematics in nutritional sciences, Germany. Project Lead. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research 1996 – 1998 OPHTEL – Telematics in Ophthalmology, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, UK. Deputy Project Lead. Funded by the European Union. 1993 – 1997 MEDWIS – Knowledge-based systems, German national programme with 40 partners, Germany. Monitoring Coordinator of the subject areas diabetes mellitus and innate metabolic diseases. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Selected Publications 2018 Schaeffler, V. (2018, October 31). ‘Online course and blended learning help students develop critical thinking skills’, INASP: Oxford, UK.

2017 Schaeffler, V. (2017, August 10). ‘Online course builds M&E skills for library networks’, INASP: Oxford, UK.

2016 Wild, J., Murugesan, R., Schaeffler, V., and Powell, A. (2016). ‘Bringing Learning Closer to the Workplace: An Online Course for Librarians in Developing Countries’, Pan-Commonwealth Forum 8 (PCF8), 2016, Conference Proceedings.

2015 Schaeffler, V. (2015, August 13). ‘Training supports libraries to monitor use of e-resources’, INASP: Oxford, UK.

1999 Mann, G., Birkmann, C., Schmidt, T., and Schaeffler, V. (1999, September 19). ‘COM3/369: Knowledge-based Information Systems: A new approach for the representation and retrieval of medical information’. J Med Internet Res 1999;1 (suppl1): e16,. (DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1.suppl1.e16), abstract available at https://www.jmir.org/1999/suppl1/e16 or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761778/. 1999 Schaeffler, V., Kruse, G., Rueff, F., Birkmann, C., and Mann, G. (1999). ‘Telematik als Hilfsmittel in der Ernährungsberatung [Telematics supporting nutrition counselling]’. Ernährungs-Umschau 1999, 46(5), p.17-182. 1997 Mann, G., Schubert, M., and Schaeffler, V. (1997). ‘Adding Knowledge to Information Retrieval Systems in the World Wide Web’, in: Keravnou, E., Garbay, C., Baud, R., and Wyatt, J. (1997, eds.). ‘Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 6th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, AIME’97, Proceedings’, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p.492-499. 1996 Schaeffler, V., Döring, A., Winkler, G., and Keil U. (1996). ‘Trends in Food Consumption in a South German Population from 1984/85 to 1989/90: Results from the WHO MONICA Project Augsburg’, Ann Nutr Metab 40, p.129–136, (DOI:10.1159/000177906), abstract available at https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/177906. 1995 Schaeffler, V. (1995). ‘Wissensbasierte Planung einer Krankenhausverpflegung dargestellt am Beispiel der Diätverpflegung für Diabetiker’ (Knowledge-based diet planning for diabetes patients in hospitals). GSF – Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit (German Research Center for Environment and Health).