Dr. Lisa Birnbaum

Consultations by appointment

Room U1.0280

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)

• Niklas, F., Jester, M., Ehmig, S., Bauer, K., Bertel, S., Birnbaum, L., Blank, S., Brendel-Kepser, I., Delucchi Danhier, R., Ernst, T., Gogolin, I., Hartmann, K., Heinzelmann, A., Rüsseler, J., Kröner, S., Konerding, M., Krug, F., Lachmann, T., Ludewig, T., Neumann, A., Reber, K., Schiffner, D., Schroeder, S., van der Sluis, H., & John, P. (accepted). Reading competencies in a digital age: New directions and challenges of digital approaches to support reading. European Journal of Psychology of Education.
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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., 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)
• 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
• 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., 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
• 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