Funding

3-year grant of the Austrian Science Fund
In this project, I investigated the potential of the identity-reframing intervention – an intervention that highlights the strengths of individuals in disadvantaged positions. I have originally developed this intervention together with Greg Walton for refugees studying at an online-university, showing the intervention to boost refugees’ learning-engagement. In the FWF project, I investigated the potential of this intervention for low-SES students and individuals with depression (see Bauer et al., 2025, SPPS, and Bauer et al., 2026, PSPB).

PhD-fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
This fellowship allowed me to conduct my PhD, implementing the ideas I had developed during my stay at Stanford University during my master’s program back in Germany.