Barbara Dickhaus

Barbara Dickhaus graduated in Social and Economic Geography at the University of Hamburg in 2001 and received a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation for her studies since 1998. In 2003 she attained a Master of Science in ‘Development Management’ at the London School of Economics and Political Science with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD). She has been working for WEED (World Economy, Ecology and Development) in Berlin as a project manager for one year (2003 until 2004) in the field trade in services, with a special focus on GATS.

Since September 2004 Barbara Dickhaus is academic staff member at the University of Kassel in the field of ‘Globalisation and Politics’ at the Department of Social Sciences. She was co-ordinator of the international Master's Programme “Labour Policies and Globalisation” for two years until September 2006 and is now research and teaching associate in the field of ‘Globalisation and Politics’. Her research interests are privatisation reforms and governance, reforms of higher education, trade in services (with a special focus on GATS), state theory, development studies and the social and political dimensions of globalisation. She is doing her PhD on the reforms of higher education and the role of privatisation in these processes, with reference to the reforms of higher education systems in Chile and South Africa.