Dr. Lisa Birnbaum

Consultations by appointment

Room U1.0281

Tel.: +49 911 5302-95760

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Education

• Doctorate in Psychology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2021)
• MA in Empirical-Educational Research, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2015)
• BEd and Federal Licensing Exam for teaching at secondary schools in Religious, German, Music and Work-Economics-Technology Education, [1. Staatsexamen im Lehramt an Hauptschulen] FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2014)
• Abitur, Gymnasium Carolinum Ansbach (2011)

Professional Career

• Speaker at the Institute for Educational Analysis Baden-Württemberg (2023-ongoing)
• Research associate Empirical-Educational Research, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (2015-ongoing)

Grants and Third-Party Funded Projects

• Co-Principal Investigator: BMBFSFJ-funded (Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth) collaborative project FaMINT for Co-Creatively Developing Family-Oriented STEM Programs
• Co-Principal Investigator: MetaIntBil: Meta-project Migration, Integration, and Participation in Education, 2024-2027, as part of the program “Integration through Education” by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus
• Co-Principal Investigator: KuBi-Meta: Arts and Cultural Education in Societal Transformations – A Meta-Project, 2024-2028, Federal Ministry of Education and Research
• Co-Principal Investigator: Culture at Regional Level Between Endogenous and Exogenous Factors, 2023-2026, Funding: Federal Office for Agriculture and Food
• Co-Principal Investigator: Mädchen, MINT und Making, Symposium, 2023, Funding: State funds of the Free State of Bavaria to
  support ‘Realization of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching‘
• EARLI Mentoring Grant, 2022, Funding: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction
• Co-Principal Investigator: “Einfach informiert” – A Citizen Science Project on Local News in Plain Language for the District Ansbach, 2022, Funding: Federal Ministry of Education an Research
• Co-Principal Investigator: Citizen-Science-Competition “On your marks”, idea sprint, 2022, Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Collaboration in Research Projects

• HeiDi – Heimat Digital: Potentials and Strategies of Digital Regional Development in Rural Areas
• Digitalization in Aesthetic, Arts and Cultural Education – Quantitative-Empirical Research Syntheses
• Condensed Joy? Multi-day Music-Educational Interventions: Determinants of Participation, Effective Design Features and Effects on Competencies and Personal Development
• Reading, Creative Writing and Painting as Leisure Activity of Primary School Children with and without a Migratory Background – an Interdisciplinary Project for the Interaction of Curricular and Extracurricular Surroundings

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

• Christ, A., Birnbaum, L., & Kröner, S. (2025). Kriterien zur Sicherstellung der Reproduzierbarkeit quantitativ-empirischer Studien: Empfehlungen und Positivbeispiele. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-025-01301-7 (open access)
• Fittkau, J., Birnbaum, L., & Kröner, S. (2025). Co-constructive participation in arts and cultural heritage as a key for sustainable development in rural areas? European Countryside, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2025-0017 (open access)
• Penthin, M., Birnbaum, L., Fritzsche, E. S., & Kröner, S. (2025). Musical leisure activities in elementary school students: The role of music-related beliefs, sex, socioeconomic status, and migration background. SAGE Open, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440251340206 (open access)
• Sommer, C., Chilla, T., Birnbaum, L., & Kröner, S. (2025). Digital social innovations in rural areas – process tracing and mapping critical junctures. Journal of Rural Studies. 114. 103510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103510 (open access)
• Uhing, S., Birnbaum, L., & Kröner, S. (2025). Foreign language motivation and activities during emerging adolescence: The role of language and basic psychological needs. SAGE Open, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440251356026 (open access)
• Birnbaum, L., Sonnert, G., Chen, C., Sadler, P. & Kröner, S. (2024). Intervening opportunities between home and college: students’ geographic mobility by college type. Community Colleges Review. 48(2). 105-120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2022.2064372 (post-print)
• Fittkau, J., Uhing, S. & Birnbaum L. (2024). Mädchen, MINT und Making – Ein Erfahrungsaustausch  zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis. bildungsforschung. 30(1). https://doi.org/10.25539/bildungsforschung.v30i1.1085
• Ratka-Pauler, A., Birnbaum, L., & Kröner, S. (2024). The role of parents’ beliefs regarding their children’s literacy acquisition. Frontiers in Education. Vol. 9, p. 1330091. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1330091 (open access)
• Smolarczyk, K., Birnbaum, L., Christ, A., & Kröner, S. (2024). Children’s and adolescents’ engagement with music and the potential for (digital) empowerment processes: A text-mining-supported scoping review. Psychology of Music. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241241535 (open access)
• Birnbaum, L. & Kröner, S. (2022). A review on antecedents and consequences of leisure reading and writing in children. SAGE Open, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1177%2F21582440221113823 (open access)
• Smolarczyk, K., Wießnet, V., Birnbaum, L., & Kröner, S. (2022). The effects of setting and music on the intention to participate in out-of-school music classes: An experimental video vignette study. Psychology of Music. 50(2), 345-364. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F03057356211000124 (post-print)
• Birnbaum, L., Wilhelm, C., Chilla, T., & Kröner, S. (2021). Place attachment and digitalisation in rural regions. Journal of Rural Studies. 87(7),  189-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.09.015 (open access)
• Birnbaum, L., Schüller, E. M., & Kröner, S. (2020). Who likes to engage in writing? – The role of children’s beliefs and intrinsic value regarding leisure writing. Educational Psychology, 40(7), 856-874. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2020.1777941 (post-print)
• Birnbaum, L., Schüller, E. M., & Kröner, S. (2019). Überzeugungen zum freizeitlichen Schreiben bei Grundschulkindern [Beliefs about leisure time writing of elementary school children]. Journal for Educational Research Online, 11, 5–36. DOI:10.25656/01:18001 (open access)
• Schüller, E. M., Birnbaum, L., & Kröner, S. (2017). What makes elementary students read in their leisure time? Development of a comprehensive questionnaire. Reading Research Quarterly, 52(2), 161-175. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rrq.164  (post-print)

Books

• Jörissen, B., Kröner, S., Birnbaum, L., Krämer, F. & Schmiedl, F. (2023). Digitalisierung in der kulturellen Bildung: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven für ein Feld im Aufbruch. kopaed. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:26963

Dissertation

• Birnbaum, L. (2022). Freizeitliches Schreiben und Lesen von Kindern im Grundschulalter: Bereichsspezifische Überzeugungen, Geschlecht und Bildungshintergrund als Determinanten. [Doctoral dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg]. OPUS FAU. urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-opus4-198909

Book Chapters

• Sommer, C., Birnbaum, L., Chilla, T. & Kröner, S. (2025). Heimat- und Ortsbindung mit digitalen Tools stärken: Empirische Erkenntnisse und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Regionalentwicklung. [Fostering place attachment and sense of place with digital tools: Empirical findings and recommendations for action for regional development]. In: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (Hrsg.), Ländliche Räume in Zeiten der Digitalisierung. Sammelband zur Forschungsfördermaßnahme des BULEplus. Projektergebnisse und Empfehlungen. 73-86. https://land-zukunft.de/fileadmin/redaktion/dokumente/l%C3%A4ndliche_r%C3%A4ume_in_zeiten_der_digitalisierung.pdf
• Birnbaum, L., Klepacki, L. & Kröner, S. (2023). What’s next. Perspektiven für ein erweitertes Verständnis von (digitaler) kultureller Bildung.[Perspectives for an Expanded Understanding of (digital) Cultural Education.] In: Jörissen, B., Kröner, S., Birnbaum, L., Krämer, F. & Schmiedl, F. (2023). Digitalisierung in der kulturellen Bildung: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven für ein Feld im Aufbruch. [Digitalization in Cultural Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for an Emerging Field]. kopaed. 195-206. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:26963
• Christ, A., Birnbaum, L., Smolarczyk, K. & Kröner, S. (2023). Verortung der Förderrichtlinie DiKuBi und ihrer Vorhaben im Kontext der internationalen Forschung zur Digitalisierung in der kulturellen Bildung. [Incorporating the funding guideline DiKuBiand its initiatives within the context of international research on digitalization in cultural education.]  In: Jörissen, B., Kröner, S., Birnbaum, L., Krämer, F. & Schmiedl, F. (2023). Digitalisierung in der kulturellen Bildung: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven für ein Feld im Aufbruch [Digitalization in Cultural Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for an Emerging Field]. kopaed. 177-194. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:26963
• Birnbaum, L., Flasche, V., Hasselhorn, J., Jörissen, B., Kröner, S., Lehmann, A.C., Lill, F., Smolarczyk, K. & Wießnet, V. (2020). Kondensiertes Glück? Komplexe Forschungsdesigns zur Entwicklung musikpädagogischer Interventionen.[Condensed Happiness? Complex Research Designs for the Development of Music Education Interventions.] In: Timm, S., Costa, J., Kühn, C. & Scheunpflug, A. Kulturelle Bildung. Theoretische Perspektiven, methodologische Herausforderungen und empirische Befunde [Theoretical Perspectives, Methodological Challenges and Empirical Findings] 317-334. Münster: Waxmann. (open access)

Reviewer Activities

• Journals: Current Psychology, Journal for Educational Research Online, Journal of Writing Research, MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, Psychology of Music, Reading Teacher, SAGE Open, Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft
• Conferences: DGPS, EARLI, GEBF