Career path
| 03/2026 - today | Research assistant, at RPTU Landau, AB Empirical School Research |
| 10/2021 - 09/2025 | Senior project manager, Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, work area: Sustainable education system |
| 02/2019 - 09/2021 | Research Assistant, University of Trier, Department of Education and Educational Sciences |
| 06/2016 - 03/2019 | Project assistant, Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF), Center for Technology-Based Assessment |
| 04/2014 - 07/2014 | Freelance, research study on the effectiveness of microcredits in Zambia |
Educational pathway
| 10/2012 - 05/2016 | M.A.Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. |
| 10/2009 - 10/2012 | B.A. Sociology / Educational Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
Publications
Jude, N., Klusmann, U., Selcik, F., Sichma, A. & Richter, D. (2025). German school barometer: Survey of teachers. Results on the current situation at general and vocational schools. Robert Bosch Stiftung: Stuttgart.
Sichma, A., & Wolf, D. (2025). Mental health of children and adolescents - Acting together! Foundation&Sponsoring, 1/2025. https://susdigital.de/ce/psychische-gesundheit-von-kindern-und-jugendlichen-gemeinsam-handeln/detail.html
Baumann, E., Greiner-Döchert, F., Rauschenbach, A.-L., Saalbach, H., Schmitz, J. & Sichma, A. (2024). German school barometer: Survey of pupils. Results from 8- to 17-year-olds and their guardians on Wellbeing, quality of teaching and help-seeking behavior. Robert Bosch Stiftung: Stuttgart. https://www. bosch-stiftung.de/de/projekt/das-deutsche-schulbarometer/schuelerinnen#november2024
Jude, N., Klusmann, U., Selcik, F., Sichma, A., Richter, D. & Wolf, D. (2024). German school barometer: Survey of teachers. Results on the current situation at general and vocational schools. Robert Bosch Stiftung: Stuttgart. https://www. bosch-stiftung.de/de/projekt/das-deutsche-schulbarometer/lehrkraefte#april2024
Sichma, A, & Wolf, D. (2023). German school barometer: Survey of teachers. Results on the current situation at general and vocational schools. Robert Bosch Stiftung: Stuttgart. https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/de/projekt/das-deutsche-schulbarometer/lehrkraefte#juni2023
Sichma, A, Steinl, V., Wolf, D. & Preussker, A. (2023): The German School Barometer: Current challenges from the perspective of school principals. Results of a survey of head teachers of general and vocational schools. Robert Bosch Stiftung: Stuttgart. https://www. bosch-stiftung.de/de/projekt/das-deutsche-schulbarometer/fokus#november2022
Sichma, A, Wolf, D. & Preussker, A. (2022): The German School Barometer: Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Schulen aus Sicht der Lehrkräfte.Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Lehrkräfte allgemeinbildender und berufsbildender Schulen durchgeführt von forsa Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung und statistische Analysen mbH. Robert Bosch Stiftung: Stuttgart. https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/de/projekt/das-deutsche-schulbarometer/lehrkraefte#april2022
Betz, T. & Bollig, S. (with the collaboration of Sichma, A & Kaak, N.) (2023). Children in daycare and society. 105 reflection cards for early educational practice. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.
Betz, T., Bischoff-Pabst, S., Bollig, S., Göbel, S., Kaak, N. & Sichma, A. (2020). Parent-Teacher Partnerships, Collaboration with Families, Parental Participation: Day Care-Family Relations from the Perspective of Inequality Research. Childhood Research - Working Paper 1. Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg University. Childhood Research - Working Paper 1. Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg University.
Bollig, S., Göbel, S. & Sichma, A. (2022). Complex public relations. Field entries as the object of reflexive elaboration of ethnographic transfer products on cooperation between daycare centers and families. In B. Hünersdorf, G. Breidenstein, J. Dinkelaker, O. Schnoor & T. Tyagunova (Eds.), Going public?educational ethnography and its publics (pp. 187-200). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Bollig, S., Betz, T., Bischoff-Pabst, S., Göbel, S., Sichma, A., & Kaak, N. (with the collaboration of Schu, N.) (2021). How can research-practice transfer succeed? Developing inequality-sensitive practice models in the context of educational partnerships. Documentation of the transfer-related workshop with experts for early childhood education practice in the joint project PARTNER. Faculty I - Education and Educational Sciences, Department of Social Pedagogy II. Trier: University of Trier.Childhood Research - Working Paper Series | FB 02 - Institute of Educational Science (uni-mainz.de)
Bollig, S. & Sichma, A. (2023). "You know, this is family work". - Negotiations of optimization claims as boundary workbetweenchild day care facilities and family. In S.M. Weber, C. Fahrenwald, & A. Schröer (Eds.), Optimization. Yearbook of the Section Organizational Pedagogy. (pp. 67-81),Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag. https://doi. org/10.1007/978-3-658-36008-5_4
Bollig, S., Schu, N. & Sichma, A. (in publication). Children as Informants - childrens active participation in building relations between family and early childhood education and care (ECEC). In S. Bollig & L. Groß (Eds.), Practicing the family. The doing and making of family in education and social work. Bielefeld: transcript.
Lectures
Sichma, A. (2023). German school barometer. Wellbeing of teachers. Panel discussion, Education Working Group, Federal Association of German Foundations, 20.10.23, Düsseldorf.
Bollig, S., Kaak, N., Schu, N. & Sichma, A. (2022). Children as actors in the relationship between family and daycare. Lecture in the Social Pedagogical Colloquium (Prof. Dr. W. Thole), University of Dortmund, 01.02.2022.
Betz, T., Bollig, S., Kaak, N. & Sichma, A. (2021). Project PARTNER. BMBF Education Research Conference 2021 "Educational Worlds of the Future", Berlin (digital), 09.-10.03.2021.
Sichma, A. & Kaak, N. (2021). Children as situational Actors in the practical definitions and manifestations of day care-family relations. International Conference "The making and doing of family in, through and with education and social work", Trier, 22-24.09.2021.
Kaak, N. & Sichma, A. (2021). Multifaceted Contributions of children to the relationship between day care and family. 30th ECEERA International Conference "Democratic Early Childhood Pedagogies", Croatia (digital), 01.-17.09.2021.
Bollig, S., Göbel, S. & Sichma, A. (2020). Equal Rights? Partnerships and Community Engagement in Early Childhood Education, 28th International RECE Conference, Bethlehem University, Palestine, 06.-10.10.20. (Event canceled by the organizer)
Sichma, A. (2020). Frühkindliche Bildung und Optimierung -Aushandlungsprozesse zwischen Eltern als Bildungsunternehmer und Kindertageseinrichtungen als dienstleistende Institution, DGfE-Kongress "Optimierung", Universität zu Köln, 15.-18.03.2020. (Event cancelled by the organizer)
Göbel, S., Sichma, A. & Kaak, N. (2020). Poster presentation Project PARTNER, Networking meeting of the BMBF funding line "Quality development for good education in early childhood". German Youth Institute e.V., Munich. 06-07.02.2020.
Bollig, S. & Sichma, A. (2019). Knowledge transfer and research-practice dialog in the PARTNER project, transfer-related workshop with experts for early childhood education practice How can research-practice transfer succeed? Developing inequality-sensitive practice models in the context of educational partnerships, University of Trier, 14-15.11.2019.
Bischoff-Pabst, S., Kaak, N., Sichma, A. & Göbel, S. (2019). Research-related impulses for the development of practice materials: Data material and analyses from the PARTNER project. Transfer-related workshop with experts for early childhood education practice. BMBF joint project of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and University of Trier, Trier, 14-15.11.2019.
Kaak, N. & Sichma, A. (2019). Children as actors in relationships between ECEC institutions and families, International expert workshop "Parent-teacher partnerships - collaboration with families - parental participation: relationships between ECEC institutions and families from the perspective of inequality research", Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, 09.-10.09.2019.
Bollig, S., Göbel, S. & Sichma, A. (2019). Between 'morally engaged public ethnography' and practice-oriented 'transfer products' - knowledge transformations in the context of basic and applied ethnographic inequality research. 6th Ethnography Congress "Going Public. Educational ethnography and its publics", Halle-Wittenberg, 31.10.-02.11.2019.