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Anja Westphal

Anja Westphal is a research assistant at the Professorship of Higher Education since April 2025. She is a PhD student at the Department of Business and Economics, conducting a doctoral research project with the title 'Digitalisierung an deutschen Hochschulen: Transformative Prozesse im Personalmanagement'.

Further information on Anja Westphal

Anja Westphal completed her Master's degree in Management at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau and the University of the West of Scotland. Her academic career focused on management, marketing and project management. After completing her studies, Anja Westphal worked as a product manager for a regional energy supplier. Since December 2021, she has been a research assistant in the ProfiZ project at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau and supports the accompanying scientific research team. Her main field of activity in the ProfiZ project is publishing, conducting surveys and implementations as well as evaluating the project results. Anja Westphal has been doing her doctorate at the Faculty of Business and Economics of TU Dortmund University since August 2024.

INTERSECT
Intersectionality in Teaching and Learning

ProfiZ
Professor*innen für die Zukunft Westsachsens - Personalentwicklung und angewandte Wissenschaft

Enger, C., Fuchs, K., & Westphal, A. (2025). Personalentwicklung an (Fach-)Hochschulen zwischen Agilität und Transformation - (Inter-)nationale Ansätze und Best Practices. In S. Leonhardt, T. Neumann, D. Kretz, T. Teich & M. Bodach (Eds.), Innovation und Kooperation auf dem Weg zur All Electric Society 2. Nachhaltige Entwicklung durch gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz (pp. 439-474). Springer Gabler.

Enger, C., Fuchs, K., & Westphal, A. (2023). Akademische Nachwuchskompetenzförderung – Eine empirische Studie zu Handlungsansätzen aus HAW-Perspektive zur (Weiter-)Entwicklung einer institutionalisierten akademischen Personalentwicklung. Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung (P-OE), 18(3+4), 90-94.

Westphal, A. (2025). Digitalization at German universities: Transformative processes in HRM. Poster presentation at the CHER 37th Annual Conference (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers), Poznań, Poland, September 4.

Westphal, A., & Lempke, L. (2025). Image analysis of the attractiveness of Universities of Applied Sciences as employers: Factors and strategy. Poster presentation at the CHER 37th Annual Conference (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers), Poznań, Poland, September 4.

Westphal, A., Lempke, L., & Fuchs, K. (2024). Academic personnel development – The development of an implementation process for the introduction of a competency model in employee appraisals to identify qualification needs. Poster presentation at the CHER 36th Annual Conference (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, September 5.

Fuchs, K., & Westphal, A. (2024). Wissenschaftliche Nachwuchsförderung im Spiegel aktueller Bedarfe und Herausforderungen einer akademischer Personalentwicklung – Ergebnisse einer Mitarbeiterbefragung an einer sächsischen HAW. Presentation at the 19th annual conference of the German Society for Higher Education Research (GfHf), Hagen, Germany, September 24.

Westphal, A. (2023). Wissenschaftliche Nachwuchsförderung – Anforderungsprofile zur Gewinnung und Bindung von Nachwuchswissenschaftler. Poster presentation at the 18th annual conference of the German Society for Higher Education Research (GfHf), Osnabrück, Germany, September 12.