Stefan Joller becomes new Head of Research at the HWZ

In spring 2023, Prof Dr Sybille Sachs will retire as Head of Research at the HWZ. In her many years of service, she has strongly promoted research at the HWZ, the University of Applied Sciences says. It is thanks to her commitment that the reputation of the HWZ as a research institution is of national and international importance today and that research has been further anchored in teaching, the statement continues. Sybille Sachs remains head of the Institute for Strategic Management HWZ.

Stefan Joller succeeds Sybille Sachs

Her successor as Head of Research is Dr. Stefan Joller. He studied sociology with a focus on organization and knowledge at the University of Lucerne and Konstanz. He was active in qualitative as well as quantitative methods training at the University of Lucerne and subsequently worked for several years as a lecturer and researcher at various universities in Germany. In the course of his teaching and research activities, he published several articles and books and was also a research and project coordinator within the framework of the state research initiative of Rhineland-Palatinate.

"We want to promote the unity of teaching and research even more strongly in the future by using synergies," says Matthias Rüegg, Rector of the HWZ, about the current personnel appointment. He adds that this will be favored by the merger of the Research Department with the University Development Department. For the Executive Board, the Research Council and the Board of Directors of the HWZ, the further development of research is a central element for this university with its in-service education offering.

Further strengthening of research by Claude Meier

Research and university development are strengthened by the affiliated and new Center for Research and Methods. Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Claude Meier, students and lecturers are supported methodologically in their scientific work. In the area of research coordination, networks and partnerships are developed that enable research activities in specialized clusters. Prof. Claude Meier studied political science and business administration at the University of Zurich, where he earned his doctorate in these disciplines. He has been at the HWZ since 2008 and has headed the Scientific Methodology Unit since 2015. He is also a subject specialist for strategic management and deputy head of the Institute for Strategic Management. His areas of expertise are global governance, stakeholder management and corporate responsibility. In the various application-oriented research projects at the Institute, he works with different scientific methods (including case studies, process tracing, Delphi studies, surveys). He is the author of various publications as well as the reader Science Methodology for the HWZ.

Source: HWZ