Prof. Dr. phil. Kerstin Schoch
artist | art therapist | psychologist
professor of intermedial art therapy

education

2016 – 2022
Witten/Herdecke University
Faculty of health
Department psychology and psychotherapy, Chair for research methods and statistics in psychology
Dr. phil. in psychology

2010 – 2014
University of Mannheim
B.Sc. in psychology

2005
Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmengen University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Erasmus studies art therapy

2003 – 2007
HKT – Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences
artistic training at Almut Glinin (image, image object, spatial concepts)

2003 – 2008
HKT – Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences
diploma in art therapy

work (selected)

since 2022
Medical School Hamburg, Faculty of Art, Health and Social Science
Institute for Research in Arts Therapies (IRAT)
professor of Intermedial Art Therapy

2023 – 2024
re•shape – a Wikimedia program to promote Knowledge Equity, Wikimedia Germany
mentor

2021 – 2022
The Pop-up Institute, Berlin
funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
HKS – University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ottersberg
Co-founder and research assistant

2020 – 2021
Open Science Fellows Program, Wikimedia Germany
mentor Knowledge Equity

2020 – 2022
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Berlin
lecturer

2019 – 2021
HKS – University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ottersberg
equality representant

2018 – 2022
HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences
lecturer

2017
SRH University Heidelberg of Applied Sciences
lecturer

2016 – 2020
HKS – University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ottersberg, Institute for Art Therapy and Research, Research focus artistic interventions in prevention and health promotion funded by VolkswagenStiftung and the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture
research assistant

2014 – 2017
Hochschule Mannheim University of Applied Sciences
lecturer

2013 – 2016
Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim
art projects and exhibitions with children and adolescents in the paediatric psychiatry

2008 – 2010
Autonomous women’s shelter Heidelberg
art therapy with children and adolescents who perienced domestic violence

2009 – 2015
Children and youth services Wespinstift, Mannheim
art therapy with neurodivergent and traumatized children and adolescents

2009
County hospital Darmstadt-Dieburg
art therapy in neurological rehabilitation

since 2008
kunsthochzwei
free-lance work

2006
Xenion – psycho-social support for politically persecutees and survivors of torture, Berlin

2002 – 2004
Klinikum am Weissenhof, Weinsberg
art and art therapy in forensic and addiction psychiatry

memberships

German scientific society for arts therapies (WFKT)

German association for art therapy (DFKGT)