Susanne Bücker

Susanne Bücker is Professor of Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology.

She is deputy chair and founding member of the Institute for Interpersonal Dynamics based at UW/H.

• Socio-emotional development from childhood to old age
• Loneliness
• Subjective well-being
• Emotion regulation
• Personality development
• Socio-emotional reactions to life events and life transitions

M. Sc. Anne Neuber

• Research assistant
  Chair of Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology

• Since 10/2023
  Professor of Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology, Witten/Herdecke University
• 10/2022 - 09/2023
  Junior Professor for Quantitative Social Research and Differential Psychology in Health and Sport, German Sport University Cologne
• 09/2020 - 09/2022
  Research Assistant (PostDoc), Psychological Methodology, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 10/2017 - 08/2020
  PhD scholarship holder (Studienstiftung), Psychological Methodology, Ruhr-University Bochum

• Loneliness in different age groups
• Well-being
• Emotion regulation
• Socio-emotional development in children and adolescents

Policy advice

2022 - today
Expert on loneliness for the European Commission and the EU Joint Research Centre

08/2023
Expert in public hearing on loneliness and participation in old age in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament

2020 - 2022
Permanent expert member of the commission of enquiry on loneliness in the NRW state parliament

04/2021
Expert in public hearing on loneliness in the Bundestag

Lectures, Keynotes, and Interviews

Prof. Dr. Susanne Bücker and her team are happy to receive lecture and interview requests by email. We have extensive experience in preparing our research topics for different target groups and presenting them in an understandable way.

Selected interviews

• "Loneliness - the unrecognised illness" - TV interview on hr fernsehen (ARD Mediathek). Available online.
• Interview on loneliness with GEO WISSEN (issue 76/2022).
• "We don't like to talk about loneliness." - Interview for Deutschlandfunk Nova. Available online.
• "The casual is important" - Interview on loneliness. taz am Wochenende. Available online.
• "Loneliness - these tips can help". TV interview for ARD Buffet. Available online.
• "Away from deficit-orientated reforms - how should the National Prevention Plan announced in the coalition agreement be filled with life?" Interview for TAGESSPIEGEL. Available online.
• "Lonely people perceive others as a threat." Interview for ZEIT ONLINE. Available online.
• "Why growing up can make you lonely - and what role the pandemic plays". Interview for DER SPIEGEL. Available online.
• "Loneliness in times of Corona". Interview with SWR3 Radio and SWR3 online. Available online.
• "Neighbourhood as a chance against loneliness". Interview for the blog of Deutsche Fernsehlotterie gGmbH. Available online.