Doctoral Student

Kira Grebing, M.A.

University of Siegen

Qualification Project

Conversation-analytical impact research in victim-offender-mediation

Victim-Offender Mediation (VOM) as an alternative to the traditional punitive justice, is a victim-centred restorative justice procedure. It pursues ambitious goals for the healing process of a conflict between the offender and the victim. Despite the effectiveness and the chances that research results have shown so far, they do not explain how an agreement between the parties is actually reached interactively. To address this desideratum, a conversation analysis of VOM mediation conversations is used to reconstruct this process. The comparative case analysis also includes the reconstruction of the interactively produced social order and the examination of factors that influence the reparation process, such as the relationship between the conflict parties. In the retrospective, narrative interviews will be conducted with the participants in the VOM in order to understand the consequences of this social service from the reality narratives of the addressees. Finally, the interviews are related to the findings of the conversation analysis.

Professional Experience

since April 2023
DFG Reseacrh Training Group 2493 “Consequences of Social Services Work“; associate member

August 2021 – September 2023
Chair for Methods of Empirical Educational and Social Research at the University of Siegen; scientific reasearch assistant

June 2020 – June 2021
DFG Reseacrh Training Group 2493 “Consequences of Social Services Work“; reseacrh student

October 2018 – June 2021
Chair for Methods of Empirical Educational and Social Research at the University of Siegen; student assistant with Bachelor’s degree

March 2020 – July 2020
Chair of Information Systems at the University of Siegen; student assistant with Bachelor’s degree

August 2019 – March 2020
Chair of Developmental Psychology and Clinical Psychology of the Lifespan at the University of Siegen; student assistant with Bachelor’s degree

November 2018 – November 2019
Chair of Information Systems at the University of Siegen; student assistant with Bachelor’s degree

April 2017 – October 2018
Chair of Clinical Psychology at the University of Siegen; student assistant

Scholarship

Oktober 2021 – September 2024
House of Young Talents – Young Academy at the University of Siegen. Doctoral scholarship

April 2019 – März 2021
House of Young Talents – Young Academy at the University of Siegen. Master’s scholarshi

College Education

since October 2021
Doctoral student in educational science at the University of Siegen

2021
Master of Arts, final grade: 1.3; topic of the Master’s thesis: “Der Aushandlungsprozess im Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich – Eine gesprächsanalytische Folgenforschung der Zielvorstellungen sowie Positionierungs- und Kategorisierungsprozesse im Gesprächsverlauf“ [“The negotiation process in victim-offender mediation – A conversation-analytical impact research of the objectives as well as positioning and categorisation processes in the conversation process”]

2018 – 2021
Studies at the University of Siegen; MA Bildung und Soziale Arbeit [Education and Social Work]

2019
State recognition: social pedagogue / social worker

2015 – 2018
Studies at the University of Siegen; BA Soziale Arbeit [Social Work]; final grade: 1.4

Memberships

Competence team of Faculty 2, dime:US project, University of Siegen

Doctoral student network for conversational research

workshop group for teaching qualitative social research

formerly
Member of the Scholarship Recipients’ Council of the House of Young Talents Young Academy

formerly
Member of the Gender Equality and Diversity Working Group in the DFG Research Training Group 2493 “Consequences of Social Services Work