Administrative and academic positions, management experience
 
 
since May 2007
Board member of SAUTE (secretary, webmaster, delegate to the SAGW)

2006-2008
"Prokura", i.e. the person responsible for the correct issuing of the students' diploma supplements, University of Berne

2006-2008
Representative of the docents (Privatdozenten) in the KID (Committee of the Head of Departments), University of Berne

2006-2008
Representative of the docents (Privatdozenten) in the faculty meetings, University of Berne

2005
Organizer of and person responsible for the student transition from the Lizentiat to the Bachelor system, including the design of a new internal student database (filemaker)

01/2005
Organizer of the SWELL (Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics) annual meeting 2005 in Berne

2002-2005
Member of the ‘Bologna’-committee which developed the new study plan for the BA and MA programme of the English Department of the University of Berne

2004-2008
Founder and administrator of “BEling – a mailing list for all linguistics departments of the University of Berne”

2004-2005
University representative in the exams for English high school teachers (“Abteilung Höheres Lehramt”)

2002-2008
Founder of and coordinator for the “Literature and Linguistics Research Colloquium for PhD Students” (monthly meetings)

2002-2008
Co-organizer and departmental representative at the University-wide Information Day for High-School Graduates, University of Berne

since 2002
Administrator of the mailing list for SWELL (Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics)

2001
Co-author of a “Manual for Writers of Papers in Linguistics” for students of the English Department in Berne

1999-2007
Expert for English in the Matura (highschool A-level) exams in the Canton of Berne