Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger is a Professor of Educational and Social Sciences at the Schwyz University of Teacher Education, Switzerland. She earned her PhD from the University of Berne and was awarded the Lazarus Award of the Faculty of Humanities for her dissertation. She worked at several universities in Germany and Switzerland, among them the University of Leipzig (interimistic Full Professor), the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Guest Professor), and the University of Fribourg (Senior Researcher). Her main areas of professional expertise in the open labor market include teaching at Secondary I and II levels, working as a caregiver for patients with mental and/or addiction problems, and as a social worker at the Social Services of Basel, Switzerland. Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger’s main research and teaching interests include socio-moral development (and education) across the lifespan and (student) teachers’ professional development as well as the intersection of the two areas. Special foci include school bullying and its moral dimensions; the prevention of and early intervention in school bullying; teachers’ professional ethos; the role of social-emotional competencies for teaching and learning; Happy Victimizing and adolescence and adulthood; and moral disengagement and aggression. From 2019 to 2023 she was a working group leader in the COST Action CA18115 “Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level”.

Prof Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger
Action Vice-Chair, Management Committee
Schwyz University Of Teacher Education Zaystrasse 42 Switzerland 6410 Goldau
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