Dr Kerstin Guffler
Kerstin Guffler studied psychology at the Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg und the University of South Carolina (USA). She wrote her doctoral thesis about the topic „Contact Interventions in Intractable Conflicts: Long-Term Attitude and Behavior Intension Changes in Israel”. Since February 2016 she works at DEval.
Key qualifications
- Thematic focus
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Individual attitude and behavior changes
- Methodological focus
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Longitudinal analysis of (quasi-) experimental research designs (e. g., latent difference score) and meta evaluations
Publications
- Policy Brief: Development Cooperation from a Partner Perspective
- Policy Brief: Entwicklungszusammenarbeit aus Sicht der Partner (Phase II)
- Development Cooperation from a Partner Perspective
- Using Mediation Analysis to Uncover Psychological Mechanisms of Attitude Change in a Development Volunteer Program
- International development volunteering: An instrument for promoting education in line with the Sustainable Development Goals?
- Policy Brief: Does weltwärts work? How volunteers change, and how they contribute to global learning in Germany
- Policy Brief: Wirkt weltwärts? Wie Freiwillige sich verändern und zum entwicklungspolitischen Lernen in Deutschland beitragen
- weltwärts-Freiwillige und ihr Engagement in Deutschland
Selected publications
Bruder, M., Polak, J.T., Guffler, K., & Scheinert, L (2020). Using mediation analysis to uncover psychological mechanisms of attitude change in a development volunteer program. InJ.Schmitt (Ed.), Causal Mechanisms in Program Evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation, 167, 131–143.
Scheinert, L., Guffler, K., Polak, J.T., & Bruder, M. (2019). International development volunteering: An instrument for promoting education in line with the Sustainable Development Goals? International Journal of Development Education & Global Learning, 11(1), 4-28.
Polak, J.T., Scheinert, L., Guffler, K. & Bruder, M. (2018), "Wirkt weltwärts? Wie Freiwillige sich verändern und zum entwicklungspolitischen Lernen in Deutschland beitragen", Voluntaris, (6)2, 264-269.
Guffler, K., Wagner, U. (2017), "Backfire of good intentions: Unexpected long-term contact intervention effects in an intractable conflict area", Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 4, S. 383 – 391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pac0000264
Guffler, K., R. Linda, J. Maaser (2015), Orientierungshilfe für das Engagement der Kommunen im Aufbau einer Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung für Flüchtlinge, Stadt Marburg, Marburg.
Stellmacher, J., K. Hammann (2013), Evaluation eines Schulprojektes zur Aufklärung von HIV/AIDS, unpublizierter Evaluationsbericht, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg.
Contact

Dr Kerstin Guffler
Phone: +49 (0)228 336907-978
E-mail: kerstin.guffler@DEval.org