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Dr. Marita Unden

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Marita Unden is a staff member of the ATHENE mission Secure Urban Infrastructures (SUI). She works on interactions between security and safety in smart cities.

Marita Unden is a staff member of the ATHENE mission Secure Urban Infrastructures (SUI). She works on interactions between security and safety in smart cities.

From March 2015 to 2020, she was an external doctoral student in the research group Work and Engineering Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at TU Darmstadt. The research focus of her dissertation is on psychological stress and strain in working life, international development cooperation as well as conflict management. Within the framework of her doctoral project, which is funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), she is working on psychological stress and strain of foreign staff in international development cooperation, especially in crisis countries. To this end, she has a research cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

  • Psychological stress and strain
  • Peace and conflict research
  • Human resource development
  • Since 2020 Post-doctoral researcher in the research group Work and Engineering Psychology
  • 2015-2020 External doctoral student at Faculty 03 of the TU Darmstadt Scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation's graduate funding programme
  • 2014-2015 Internship at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Eschborn. Sector project on the inclusion of people with disabilities in German development cooperation
  • 2011-2014 Study of Peace and Conflict Studies, Philipps University Marburg. Scholarship holder of the basic funding of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, title of the master's thesis: „Psychische Belastung von Fachkräften in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Konzepte zur Personalbegleitung“ (engl.: Psychological stress of professionals in development cooperation: concepts for staff support)
  • 2011 Research stay in Colombia, psychosocial reintegration measures of former child soldiers
  • 2007-2011 Study of Educational Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, title of diploma thesis: „Die psychosoziale Situation von Kindern und Jugendlichen in bewaffneten Konflikten am Beispiel der Kindersoldaten in Kolumbien“ (engl.: The psychosocial situation of children and adolescents in armed conflicts using the example of child soldiers in Colombia)
  • 2006-2007 Voluntary service in Peru
  • 2006 Abitur

Systemic coaching training (Systemische Gesellschaft, SP Offenbach)

Master of Arts Peace and Conflict Studies

Diploma in Education Sciences

  • SoSe 19 Design project: “Nutzer- und umweltorientierte Arbeits- und Produktgestaltung”
  • WiSe 18/19 Design project as part of module “Projektmanagement und Prozessanalyse”
  • SoSe 18 Design project: “Nutzer- und umweltorientierte Arbeits- und Produktgestaltung”